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Ink Reviews: Orange, Apricot Orange, Quick Lime
On Thu, 1 May 2008 12:47:51 -0500, "Bluesea"
wrote: I took your description as looking as if it were written in orange to mean that the ink was very watery. I guess CS meant for it to look like OJ. Who knows what they meant for it to look. I don't think some of these ink makers much care one way or the other. An orange is not as easy to come up with as what you might think--or at least not as easy as I thought when I tried to make one using Noodler's Yellow and some different reds. I never got anything near as good as Diamine Orange and I notice that none of these other ink manufacturers have anything that pure orange either. And I still write out a letter or two a week. That's great! I sent a couple of correspondence cards last _month_. Sometimes for periods of time I might write three or four a week, but lately its been just one. I wound up getting a bunch of stamps off eBay awhile back for less than face value--one of those deals where they had these big lots, and I'm trying to use up that postage--and let me tell you, it's a pain in the ass putting all those small denomination stamps on envelopes. |
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Ink Reviews: Orange, Apricot Orange, Quick Lime
On Thu, 1 May 2008 12:52:17 -0500, "Bluesea"
wrote: "The Drunken Lord" wrote in message .. . I've got one Herbin ink and I've seen writing samples of a few others and have received vials of a few others, and damn if I know why anybody would want to use that high priced colored water when they can go to the grocery and get food coloring or just write with Kool-Aid... NO! NOT KOOL-AID! OH, THE SUGAR...AUGGHHH! Er...does Kool-Aid have sugar in it or does the sugar have to be added? You can get it either way. But if the sugar gums up your pens, it should dissolve in water. You know, regarding food coloring--you know they use that stuff as if it were crystal violet or methylene blue to stain bacteria and that kind of crap to look at it under a slide. Maybe next time I'm at the grocery store I might buy some food coloring and try it out. Easter egg dye might be worth a shot too. There is also this outfit called darma trading at www.darmatrading.com that sells dyes for tie dying in small quantities. |
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Ink Reviews: Orange, Apricot Orange, Quick Lime
On Thu, 1 May 2008 12:52:17 -0500, Bluesea wrote
(in article ): "The Drunken Lord" wrote in message ... I've got one Herbin ink and I've seen writing samples of a few others and have received vials of a few others, and damn if I know why anybody would want to use that high priced colored water when they can go to the grocery and get food coloring or just write with Kool-Aid... NO! NOT KOOL-AID! OH, THE SUGAR...AUGGHHH! Er...does Kool-Aid have sugar in it or does the sugar have to be added? You can get it both ways. -- Harry F. Leopold aa #2076 AA/Vet #4 The Prints of Darkness (remove gene to email) ³Let me get this straight: You believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father will let you live forever if you pretend to eat his flesh, drink his blood, and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that he put there a long time ago as punishment for all humanity because a rib-woman made from a dust-man was convinced by a talking snake to eat fruit from a magical tree. Yeah. Right.³ (unknown) |
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