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May. 14th, 2019 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sciatrixRight, that mess posted, which means I'm going to sit down and work out my grading. I'm hoping I can use up huge amounts of my Noodler's Bernanke Red, because I've grown to hate it, but I still have like half a bottle and it really is a decent grading ink especially in a stub nib like the TWSBI Eco stub I've put it in.
I mean, it feathers like hell and bleeds, but it does dry real fast and doesn't stick around long in the presence of water. And for grading you don't need a ton of precision... and I won't feel bad about dumping whatever's in the Eco when I'm done with it. Sooner I use the ink I have, the sooner I can go buy more Diamine Meadow and/or a bunch of other Diamine colors to play with so I know exactly what to buy when I make myself a huge bulk order from Cult Pens. (They sell Diamine for like half the price as anywhere else, which makes sense: they're based in the UK. But they also do free international shipping if you order enough ink, so my plan is to work out which colors I absolutely love via ink samples, and then save up and do a big bulk order of everything I want a bottle of.)
GRADING AHOY, I guess.
I mean, it feathers like hell and bleeds, but it does dry real fast and doesn't stick around long in the presence of water. And for grading you don't need a ton of precision... and I won't feel bad about dumping whatever's in the Eco when I'm done with it. Sooner I use the ink I have, the sooner I can go buy more Diamine Meadow and/or a bunch of other Diamine colors to play with so I know exactly what to buy when I make myself a huge bulk order from Cult Pens. (They sell Diamine for like half the price as anywhere else, which makes sense: they're based in the UK. But they also do free international shipping if you order enough ink, so my plan is to work out which colors I absolutely love via ink samples, and then save up and do a big bulk order of everything I want a bottle of.)
GRADING AHOY, I guess.
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Date: 2019-05-14 07:10 pm (UTC)OH MY GOD
SO I SEE
I love small inexpensive samples of things, ohhh Lordy
Realistically, I'm going to grab a whole whack of 2mL samples from Goulet Pens first
....//cries
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Date: 2019-05-14 07:57 pm (UTC)I believe VanNess pens also does something similar, with slightly more ink per sample and slightly more expensive prices on the samples, and a somewhat different selection of inks.
Goulet Pens will even let you do blind samples where you get whatever they feel like to test-drive. I got one of those sets for my birthday last year, and I'm still poking at all the inks that I never would have considered trying. Part of me wants, cussedly, to use up ALL OF THEM before I purchase anything else; part of me is also going "look, you hated that Stipula from the moment you put it in a dip pen; what do you think is going to change about that hatred if you use up the whole sample?
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Date: 2019-05-14 08:03 pm (UTC)//TURNS INTO GOLLUM
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Date: 2019-05-14 08:12 pm (UTC)*enraged goblin tears*
(Seriously, apparently when I get stressed my impulse to Acquire Things goes through the roof. I am grimly holding myself in check by promising my lizard brain I can order inks when my shit gets back from the flood remediation and hoping it will have forgotten by then.
My lizard brain has a very long memory.)
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Date: 2019-05-14 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-14 09:22 pm (UTC)