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[sciatrix]

Right, 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.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Do you ever grade with a dip pen?

(I'm thinking it could be particularly gratifying to accidentally splotch on an egregiously bad paper. But then I'm not a teacher of humans.)

[sciatrix]

Nah, I grade too fast--my dip pen would be out of ink and need to be refreshed constantly. Also, I'm grading short answer rather than essays, so my level of emotional investment in each answer is I think a little less.

Also, let's be real, I splotch often enough with fountain pens as it is.