Looking For an Ink Recommendation

"john cline ii" wrote in message
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I'll let you know after I get it. Being waterproof/fraud proof, etc.,
it sells for somewhat higher price that the waterproof blues that
Nathan makes for Swisher, Art Brown and Pendemonium do (each of which
is different....of those Legal Lapis at Pendemonium is by far my
favourite!) I keep trying to tell Nathan and the ink sellers that most
lawyers would prefer a blue-black ink to a turquoise one.


Are there special inks with anti-fraud characteristics?? Please expound.

"If you receive a wedding invitation with no reply card, there is special
paper and form to follow to reply. The folded letter sheet resembles a
wedding invitation in that it is folded along the left side and then folds
top to bottom to go into a smaller envelope. The reply to this, and to any
formal, engraved invitation should be written in black ink and follow the
wording of the invitation:

snippage If an invitation is sent to your name alone... only you are
invited. You may
ask your hostess if you may bring someone to a wedding only if you are
engaged. Children are never invited unless they are named on the
envelope."

Now I remember one of the reasons Hubby and I opted for the Justice o' the
Peace weddin'. yeesh.

"Patrick Lamb" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:17:51 GMT, "john cline ii"
wrote:


Are you favorably impressed by greens like PR sage, or Noodler's
squeteague or sequoia? My wife likes those -- I prefer the green
greens (but not yellow greens!) myself.

Pat

Email address works as is.

PR Sage? I don't think I've seen that.dunno about JCII but I like PR
Avacado, Diamine Emerald (which is more like a soft Avacado) and of the
sample I've seen I like Squeteague. Greens greens - mostly they just have
to be dark green for me. bright ones such as WM or Noodler's Cactus, while
not bad, just aren't my style. I don't use many light-colored inks. a
couple of exceptions only and neither are green.

After the last frown, I promptly made
Sheaffer's Peacock Blue (i.e., turquoise) my standard color of choice which
lasted for a few years.

I started out with Sheaffer Peacock, and the rest is history!

satrap
whose dear Mom (may she rest in peace) frowned on many things, but ink was the
least of these

(Actually I think it was some modern incarnation of Persian
Rose from PR...)

Hey, which ink is that?
When Nathan came out with his line of inks, I was trying to tell myself that I
have enough ink. Well, I am losing that argument. Fortunately, when you argue
with yourself, you can win even when you lose.
Wait. Did you just understand that? Anyway, now I gotta get Tardif inks!


satrap
who sometimes talks herself into confusion, but manages to get off at the end
of the line

Jeremy wrote:

Are there special inks with anti-fraud characteristics?? Please expound.


Noodler's Ink (a very new brand, made by Nathan Tardif and quickly being
picked up by various stores) has some colours that are impressively
difficult to remove from paper. The chemical composition of the ink is
such that it will not stick to plastic or metal, even when dry, but
bonds strongly to cellulose paper fibres. Won't wash out of paper with
water, ammonia, bleach, alcohol, or whatever other solvents. You have to
destroy the paper to get it out.

A few things to note:
1. Only some Noodler colours have this feature. Black for sure, plus a
couple of others.
2. Nathan knows that some of us like pretty colours, and he knows that
he'll sell more ink if he makes more pretty colours than the competition
does. Therefore he is churning out more and more new colours at an
alarming rate, some of them with this feature and some without, so pay
attention. :-)
3. If you mix the fraud-proof ink with anything else, the chemical
balance will be thrown off and it won't be fraud-proof anymore.

Hope this helps
David

"so what" wrote in message
...
(Actually I think it was some modern incarnation of Persian
Rose from PR...)

Hey, which ink is that?

It's PRs new Arabian Rose. Nathan's two Persian rose efforts are "Ottoman
Rose" and "Shah's Rose" - the difference between the two, as I understand it
, is that one dries pretty much as it comes out of the pen - a bright rosy
colour. The other dries to a more vintage look. Now, which is which?
can't tell you. :P

have enough ink. Well, I am losing that argument. Fortunately, when you
argue
with yourself, you can win even when you lose.

I lose and win arguments with myself all the time. either we're nuts, or
we're both normal. either way - we win! :-)

"Dave" wrote in message
...
Jeremy wrote:

Are there special inks with anti-fraud characteristics?? Please
expound.


Noodler's Ink (a very new brand, made by Nathan Tardif and quickly being
picked up by various stores) has some colours that are impressively
difficult to remove from paper. The chemical composition of the ink is
such that it will not stick to plastic or metal, even when dry, but
bonds strongly to cellulose paper fibres. Won't wash out of paper with
water, ammonia, bleach, alcohol, or whatever other solvents. You have to
destroy the paper to get it out.

A few things to note:
1. Only some Noodler colours have this feature. Black for sure, plus a
couple of others.
2. Nathan knows that some of us like pretty colours, and he knows that
he'll sell more ink if he makes more pretty colours than the competition
does. Therefore he is churning out more and more new colours at an
alarming rate, some of them with this feature and some without, so pay
attention. :-)
3. If you mix the fraud-proof ink with anything else, the chemical
balance will be thrown off and it won't be fraud-proof anymore.

Hope this helps
David


Incredible!! And I thought that ink was--well, just "ink!"

I first was introduced to fountain pens when I was in the 4th grade--that
would've been around 1964. Our teacher used the novelty of fountain pens as
a way to keep us interested in penmanship (that subject was on our report
cards back then, along with "spelling." This was before word processors and
spell-checkers).

She kept the inkwell on her desk and we each had a lever-filler fountain pen
and we could approach her desk whenever we needed to refill them. We used
those FPs all year, but once we were promoted to the next grade, we returned
to ballpoints and the FP was pretty much forgotten.

It was almost 3 decades later that I bought my A.T. Cross 14k Century set,
including a FP, on a whim. Everything I knew about FPs was from when I was
back in the fourth grade.

Now I find out that, contrary to what I believed, people still write with
FPs, and there are a lot of different inks! And here I thought that Parker
and Scrip were all the ink that anyone would ever need . . .

Life is full of pleasant surprises . . .

Jeremy wrote:

And here I thought that Parker and Scrip were all the ink that anyone would
ever need . . .

Well, they _are_ all that anyone *needs*. But if what we *needed* was
the only question, we wouldn't go looking for a fountain pen in the
first place!

Dave wrote:
3. If you mix the fraud-proof ink with anything else, the chemical
balance will be thrown off and it won't be fraud-proof anymore.

I think Chuck said that if you add a color to one of his waterproof
colors, the added color can be washed away but the waterproof color
stays behind.

If my scorecard is correct, Nathan has made about 6 waterproof ink
colors: black, Aquamarine (light blue) made exclusively for Chuck,
Legal Blue (blue-black), Hellbender Red, there was a purple that Chuck
had sold out of and might order more, and green is out or will be soon.

Nancy