What is the blackest ink on the market right now? Platinum Carbon Black? Montblanc Permanent Black? Platinum recently advertised an ink that is significantly darker than Carbon Black. Platinum Chou Kuro.
The potential downside of Chou Kuro is the ease of cleaning. The first edition of this ink comes with its own converter and a bottle of “Cleaning Water”. Closer inspection shows that the water is…
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I think everyone's gotten theirs by now, so please enjoy the linocut I designed, carved, printed on cards and sent out for February's International Correspondence Writing Month :)
[Image Description 1: A black linocut print featuring a moth with sparkling star eye patterns on its six wings and surrounded by a starburst of lines and small stars. End description.]
Some process and more details under the cut - including the other stamps I carved to go on the envelopes and inside the cards!
Please enjoy my chaotic printing station and my beautiful stack of shelves, baskets, and my baking racks being used as a place for all the prints to dry (well, most of them)
I also carved individual stamps of the starry eyeballs based off the eye shapes in the moth's wings. I love love love love how they came out, and also had a lot of fun with the variety of little star stamps I made to embellish things with.
[Image ID 2: A photo of my kitchen table overtaken by a precarious stack of wire shelves and racks that are covered in drying prints. In front of the drying prints is my printing surface where the ink, roller, and the linocut are visible.
Image ID 3-4: Photos of the envelopes used to send the cards, they've got stars stamped on the front and a large starry eye stamped on the flap. The eyes are two different variations of a similar design and match the eye pattern on the moth's wings. End Description.]
For funsies, please also enjoy how gorgeous this design came out on brown paper
[Image Description 5: Another image of the same print, this time on brown paper intead of white]
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my sister has two fountain pens, both very friendly pilots (a metro and a kakuno) and she brought them to me to clean them or fix them bc neither of them write without flow issues . and well her first problem was that she didn't realize she had no ink in one of them. her second problem was that she brought the ink out to refill and ... baystate blue. noodler's inks are imo extremely overhyped in general but what ive discovered this morning as i'm rinsing her pens out at home is that this one leaves a gritty/sludgy residue of blue/black particulate on fucking everything. i knew it stained to high heaven but it's so GUNKY . and almost greasy? sludgy. this stuff is harder to clean than my organics studio nitrogen and nitro is fucking famous in fountain pen reddits for being so staining and hard to clean. if noodler's ink has one million haters im one of them. if noodler's has ten haters im one. if noodler's has one hater that is me. if noodler's has zero haters i am no more on this earth . if the world is with noodlers then i am against the world