Miz Black Crow
January 6th, 2016, 11:20 AM
Heyo fellow Geeksters! I wanted to share with you a little ink mix I worked up last night. I'm a big huge fan of shading inks, and black-purples, and so what else would I make but a shading black-purple?! Oh, and because I'm paranoid about flooding, the ink had to withstand water, at least partially. What I came up with was...
Old Private's Blackest Plum.
The constituent ink is that PR Plum seems to be trying to emulate the flesh of the plum. By itself it's a beautiful shader, but it's the SKIN of the plum that interests me, those beautiful purples and blacks that they can come in. They're actually some of my favorite fruits, and it's a damn tragedy that I developed an allergy to them...
The magic recipe seems to be Private Reserve Plum 1mL : 8 drops Noodler's Old Manhattan Blackest Black (scaled here to 5ml:40gtts). You can see a color comparison between the 3 inks below--both components and the mix. Apologies for the lack of scans; photos were shot with my phone, because I'm classy like that. One interesting thing is that the more black you add, the purpler the ink becomes; the less black you add, the redder / pinker the ink seems to be.
A NOTE ON "DROPS" -- The drops I used were NOT from an eyedropper. I use medical syringes for ink moving/mixing, still sharp, because I'm a rebel. :cool: So the "drops" were from a VanishPoint syringe (NOT a VanishingPoint FP!). 25 drops worked out to about 0.35mL, but I wasn't able to measure the total volume placed into the mix, so it's probably somewhere around 0.5-0.6mL OMBB to 5mL Plum.
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1452102363__old_private_overview.jpg
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1452102647__old_private_sample.jpg
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1452103042__op_sample_blowup.jpg
Watery Soak Test! The sample was compared to PR Plum and Old Manhattan on a smaller piece of Rhodia paper....
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1452102703__op_soak_pre.jpg
After 5 Minutes of Soaking:
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1452102758__op_soaky_sample.jpg
As we can see, PR Plum is not the most water-resistant ink on the planet. :nono: What stays behind when Old Private's gets soaked is only the OMBB component. The upside to that is that OMBB isn't just bulletproof, it's Eternal, which also implies some lightfastness, so what gets written should be damn legible for a good long while. An hour-long soak is currently underway; further bulletins as events warrant.
One thing I SHOULD say about this ink is that it feathers a little bit on cheaper paper, just like PR Plum. It behaves just like royalty on Leuchtturm and Rhodia, though, which makes me extremely happy.
And good gods that shaaaaading...
:jaw::jaw::jaw:
ETA: After an hour of soaking, the test remains fundamentally unchanged, which makes sense. The Plum is completely gone; the Old Private and the OMBB remain as they were, so I'm not going to bother with a re-photo.
Old Private's Blackest Plum.
The constituent ink is that PR Plum seems to be trying to emulate the flesh of the plum. By itself it's a beautiful shader, but it's the SKIN of the plum that interests me, those beautiful purples and blacks that they can come in. They're actually some of my favorite fruits, and it's a damn tragedy that I developed an allergy to them...
The magic recipe seems to be Private Reserve Plum 1mL : 8 drops Noodler's Old Manhattan Blackest Black (scaled here to 5ml:40gtts). You can see a color comparison between the 3 inks below--both components and the mix. Apologies for the lack of scans; photos were shot with my phone, because I'm classy like that. One interesting thing is that the more black you add, the purpler the ink becomes; the less black you add, the redder / pinker the ink seems to be.
A NOTE ON "DROPS" -- The drops I used were NOT from an eyedropper. I use medical syringes for ink moving/mixing, still sharp, because I'm a rebel. :cool: So the "drops" were from a VanishPoint syringe (NOT a VanishingPoint FP!). 25 drops worked out to about 0.35mL, but I wasn't able to measure the total volume placed into the mix, so it's probably somewhere around 0.5-0.6mL OMBB to 5mL Plum.
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1452102363__old_private_overview.jpg
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1452102647__old_private_sample.jpg
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1452103042__op_sample_blowup.jpg
Watery Soak Test! The sample was compared to PR Plum and Old Manhattan on a smaller piece of Rhodia paper....
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1452102703__op_soak_pre.jpg
After 5 Minutes of Soaking:
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/uploads/imgs/fpn_1452102758__op_soaky_sample.jpg
As we can see, PR Plum is not the most water-resistant ink on the planet. :nono: What stays behind when Old Private's gets soaked is only the OMBB component. The upside to that is that OMBB isn't just bulletproof, it's Eternal, which also implies some lightfastness, so what gets written should be damn legible for a good long while. An hour-long soak is currently underway; further bulletins as events warrant.
One thing I SHOULD say about this ink is that it feathers a little bit on cheaper paper, just like PR Plum. It behaves just like royalty on Leuchtturm and Rhodia, though, which makes me extremely happy.
And good gods that shaaaaading...
:jaw::jaw::jaw:
ETA: After an hour of soaking, the test remains fundamentally unchanged, which makes sense. The Plum is completely gone; the Old Private and the OMBB remain as they were, so I'm not going to bother with a re-photo.