(The actual colour of the ink after drying a while is much more day-glo orange than the scan looks on my screen.)
It turns out the fountain pen is much more comfortable to hold without the cap posted (stuck on the back). It still needs to be held at an odd angle to get good ink flow with this ink.
I’m told these pens can also be converted to “eyedroppers” as long as there are no tiny cracks in the body of the pen. Basically, you unscrew the body of the pen, remove the cartridge, add silicone grease to the threads (and a tiny O-ring if the construction of the pen allows it), and then fill the entire body of the pen with ink (with, say, an eyedropper). That way, it will hold more ink. That way, if it isn’t a well-constructed and/or well-greased pen, you will leak ink all over everywhere. Fun and profit!
At the Angoulême comics festival, I was having a late business meeting with someone in a pub that prides itself on serving American beer (Bud) and burgers (I don’t know what it was, but I had a weird allergic reaction to it later; let’s blame the Bearnaise sauce). The bartender brought around a big sketchbook, asked if we were artists, and quite charmingly asked us to add our own sketches to the many pages by other comic artists in it. My dinner companion zipped through a funny drawing of a duck. I stared and stared at the page in a panic. I drew one thing, then covered it with another, then tried to fix it with colours as I eventually managed to sort-of draw the Library soldier with a bag of comics. The barkeep came back for the sketchbook, and maybe it was his crushing sneer of disdain when he looked at my page that brought on the allergic reaction. (I didn’t take a pic of the drawing. I consider it to non-exist.)
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