Fun with blood

[Rainwalker]

My own blood (on paper accidentally) dried rather brownish - a very ugly color.

 

It did not look like "blood" color at all.

[Rainwalker]

OK - I give up.

 

How does one go about measuring 1 part of this and 10 parts of that and 40 parts of the other thing?

 

(Clueless)

[sumgaikid]

Looks too close to MB's Bordeaux color to me............

 

John

[Omegaham]

OK - I give up.

 

How does one go about measuring 1 part of this and 10 parts of that and 40 parts of the other thing?

 

(Clueless)

 

Make a huge recipe?

 

For example, make one part 20 mL. 10 parts would be 200 mL, and 40 parts would be 800 mL. You would then get a bit more than a quart of this lovely ink.

 

If that's too much for you, (hah) divide it by whatever you want. I suggest using 5:40:200.

Edited June 8, 2009 by Omegaham

[lapis]

OK - I give up.

 

How does one go about measuring 1 part of this and 10 parts of that and 40 parts of the other thing?

 

(Clueless)

Rain, don't go to the trouble of mixing 1 + 10 + 40 pails of ink. Too cumbersome and you're not doing it for the whole city.

I do this in two ways (the differences being only in the thousandths).

 

(1) Get a medical pipette (Eppendorf etc) e.g. in 200 or 1000 or 5000 µl capacity where everything from full down to nil is adjustable. With plastic disposable tips. E.g. 10 + 100 + 400 µl, that's enough for lots of dippings or swabings to actually see what any mix will look like on paper. Or 100 + 1000 + 4000 µl which is more than enough to fill most cartridges. Or use any glass pipette and suck up and blow out any desired volumes.

 

(2) Get a good electronic (again usually medical) balance and an eyedropper and weigh the amounts you need. E.g. instead of 10 + 100 + 400 µl, ditto in µg. (One µl of ink is usually = about 1.000-1.005 µg.

 

(X) Getting into eyedroppers, you can also just take any clean, dry eyedropper and count the number of drops. One drop is usiually about 50 µl or about 1/20 of a ml. Even if the drops you encounter are much bigger or smaller, one "drop" is still = one "part"

 

Whew

 

 

 

 

[Rena]

OK - I give up.

 

How does one go about measuring 1 part of this and 10 parts of that and 40 parts of the other thing?

 

(Clueless)

Rain, don't go to the trouble of mixing 1 + 10 + 40 pails of ink. Too cumbersome and you're not doing it for the whole city.

I do this in two ways (the differences being only in the thousandths).

 

(1) Get a medical pipette (Eppendorf etc) e.g. in 200 or 1000 or 5000 µl capacity where everything from full down to nil is adjustable. With plastic disposable tips. E.g. 10 + 100 + 400 µl, that's enough for lots of dippings or swabings to actually see what any mix will look like on paper. Or 100 + 1000 + 4000 µl which is more than enough to fill most cartridges. Or use any glass pipette and suck up and blow out any desired volumes.

 

(2) Get a good electronic (again usually medical) balance and an eyedropper and weigh the amounts you need. E.g. instead of 10 + 100 + 400 µl, ditto in µg. (One µl of ink is usually = about 1.000-1.005 µg.

 

(X) Getting into eyedroppers, you can also just take any clean, dry eyedropper and count the number of drops. One drop is usiually about 50 µl or about 1/20 of a ml. Even if the drops you encounter are much bigger or smaller, one "drop" is still = one "part"

 

Whew

 

Lapis has provided excellent tool ideas for measuring ink quantities. Here's another, and what I use: A cartridge converter fill kit. It's a plastic syringe with thin, plastic needles. Pear Tree Pens sells them, and that is where I got mine, but I'm sure others have them as well. Here's a link.

 

 

[lapis]

Very Very nice! I'd like to see it side by side with Tiananmen...

Okay, here we go....

 

I'd say Tiananmen isn't just too blue, it's also too pale (for real blood).

 

Mike

 

[GardenWeasel]

Very Very nice! I'd like to see it side by side with Tiananmen...

Okay, here we go....

 

I'd say Tiananmen isn't just too blue, it's also too pale (for real blood).

 

Mike

Wow! what a HUGE difference!! Thank you!

[Inka]

Too cool!

I did something similar back in May of this year, after reading an old post from October, 2006 where a member was looking for something like this for Halloween.

Here's the one I came up with, Noodler's Nikita: Heart Of Darkness; even separates on paper towel like the real thing, at least from what I recall of the last time I'd inadvertently cut myself:

 

http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu56/InkaFX/Nikita_plus_HoD_Blend.jpg

 

Mine can also be found on @ page 10; post #146, of the "Ink Recipes" thread/topic.

Mixing inks can really be a blast, I do it all the time.

[Rainwalker]

Many thanks for all the suggestions!

 

I particularly liked the "pail" method (heh).

 

Am going to experiment with drops from an eyedropper and the Write Fill syringe.

 

Thanks again!

[encephalartos]

I needed something "bloody-looking" for signing certain documents at work.

 

Started with 4 parts Noodlers Antietam.

Added about 1 part Noodlers Red Black.

Finished off with a couple drops of Noodlers Heart of Darkness.

(this was mixed in one of those little Pear Tree sample bottles.)

 

A man at work who is a Marine (Semper Fi) told me it looks like dried blood

after I told him that some one else had been skeptical.

 

Not tested for permanence. Does photocopy really well.

[lapis]

I'll try to find my own thread on this. Big difference is between fresh and dired blood, so I opted and cut my finger for a very broad nib.

 

Mike

Edited January 7, 2010 by lapis

[Lloyd]

I needed something "bloody-looking" for signing certain documents at work.

Do you work for the devil?

[SamCapote]

I needed something "bloody-looking" for signing certain documents at work.

Do you work for the devil?

 

Hysterical. :roflmho: