Excellent Ink Mixing Combo From an FPN'er!

Awhile back some guy on Amazon was writing reviews of books he had
never read. He'd start the review with, "I've never read this book,
but . . . " This guy was a joker and he knew he was a joker.

But jokers on FPN don't know they're jokers



The thread is about your favorite Diamine ink. The poster is
CharlieB, an apparently prolific FPN poster who I'm not very familiar
with, and this is the entire post. The topic is, "Most Favorite
Diamine Ink":

begin quote
I have never tried this, but I'm thinking that I would probably like a
50/50 mix of Diamine Royal Blue (which I find to be too light) and
Diamine Sapphire (which I find to be too purple). The other blue inks
made by Diamine all have a too much green in them. I've never tried
the WES Imperial.
end quote

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/fo...ic=54864&st=15

But that's not all. Later in the same thread, he admits he's never
even tried Royal Blue (which he finds too light) or Sapphire (which he
finds too purple). Here he lists Royal Blue _and_ Sapphire among the
inks he would _like_ to try:

begin quote
I'm interested in trying:
--Saddle Brown
--Sapphire Blue
--WES Imperial Blue
--Royal Blue
end quote

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/fo...ic=54864&st=60

I didn't quote the whole post on this one--no reason to--the rest of
it was garbage.

In fact, all of it is garbage.

98% of the posts on FPN are garbage.

I'd argue 95%, but your point is taken.

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 06:24:24 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

I'd argue 95%, but your point is taken.

You might be right. I originally typed "95%", but thought this might
be too low an estimate.

Maybe it is 1 in 20 instead of 1 in 50.

But 1 in 20 might be giving that ****ed up forum too much credit,
which is something I don't want to do.

The Drunken Lord wrote:
But that's not all. Later in the same thread, he admits he's never
even tried Royal Blue (which he finds too light) or Sapphire (which he
finds too purple). Here he lists Royal Blue _and_ Sapphire among the
inks he would _like_ to try:

In fairness, if colors are represented accurately online, you can tell
if you'll like an ink or not. I think many of us do make those decisions
based on samples we see.

That said, many times, the way the ink looks on paper isn't the way
it looks in a photo on the web taken by someone who doesn't know how
to color-correct.

I just sold 15 bottles of Noodler's blues after my soak tests -- some
were inks I liked, but I picked how many I wanted to keep and figured
out which ones I liked less.

--
_Deirdre web: http://deirdre.net blog: http://dsmoen.livejournal.com/
"Memes are a hoax! Pass it on!"

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:09:31 -0700, Deirdre Saoirse Moen
wrote:

The Drunken Lord wrote:
But that's not all. Later in the same thread, he admits he's never
even tried Royal Blue (which he finds too light) or Sapphire (which he
finds too purple). Here he lists Royal Blue _and_ Sapphire among the
inks he would _like_ to try:

In fairness, if colors are represented accurately online, you can tell
if you'll like an ink or not. I think many of us do make those decisions
based on samples we see.

That said, many times, the way the ink looks on paper isn't the way
it looks in a photo on the web taken by someone who doesn't know how
to color-correct.

Sometimes the inks look like scans and online swatches, but my
experience is most of the times they don't. I've found they're not
reliable. What's more reliable is a description from somebody who
knows up from down. But most people on FPN don't know up from down.

That post is more an example of wasted bandwidth on FPN than anything
else. But that's hardly news. I did think it was kind of funny.
Here I am this morning scrolling through that thread to see if there's
any reliablie information on some Diamine ink I don't have and I come
across that bull****. The topic was supposed to be about one's
favorite Diamine ink. And you've got to scroll through mostly
bull**** to see if there's anything there.

People on FPN will post what their favorite ink is if they have only
two inks--or only one ink. I don't even know why I was there this
morning--well, I had about 20 minutes to kill. What a way to kill
time.

I just sold 15 bottles of Noodler's blues after my soak tests -- some
were inks I liked, but I picked how many I wanted to keep and figured
out which ones I liked less.

I could probably get rid of all my Noodler's blues except Baystate. A
couple are kind of interesting, but the PR equivalents are a little
brighter.

The Drunken Lord wrote:

People on FPN will post what their favorite ink is if they have only
two inks--or only one ink. I don't even know why I was there this
morning--well, I had about 20 minutes to kill. What a way to kill
time.

Heh, true. I remember finding all my inks and dicovering I'd had an
unopened bottle of Noodler's Luxury Blue -- for years.

I could probably get rid of all my Noodler's blues except Baystate. A
couple are kind of interesting, but the PR equivalents are a little
brighter.

I like PR Blue Suede bunches, but I have more Noodler's because they're
permanent.

--
_Deirdre web: http://deirdre.net blog: http://dsmoen.livejournal.com/
"Memes are a hoax! Pass it on!"

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:50:47 -0700, Deirdre Saoirse Moen
wrote:

The Drunken Lord wrote:

People on FPN will post what their favorite ink is if they have only
two inks--or only one ink. I don't even know why I was there this
morning--well, I had about 20 minutes to kill. What a way to kill
time.

Heh, true. I remember finding all my inks and dicovering I'd had an
unopened bottle of Noodler's Luxury Blue -- for years.

I could probably get rid of all my Noodler's blues except Baystate. A
couple are kind of interesting, but the PR equivalents are a little
brighter.

I like PR Blue Suede bunches, but I have more Noodler's because they're
permanent.

Yeah, but don't the permanent Noodler's blues look pretty much the
same? I don't know if I have but two, both from Swisher's. I can't
remember the names right now but I remember they both look like crap,
too crappy to use, if you ask me.

The Drunken Lord wrote:
Yeah, but don't the permanent Noodler's blues look pretty much the
same? I don't know if I have but two, both from Swisher's. I can't
remember the names right now but I remember they both look like crap,
too crappy to use, if you ask me.

I have a bunch of permanent blues from Noodler's. I've got 13 that are
at least semi-bulletproof or waterproof.

Sure, some are similar, but others aren't.

--
_Deirdre web: http://deirdre.net blog: http://dsmoen.livejournal.com/
"Memes are a hoax! Pass it on!"