Black Swan in Icelandic Minty Bathwater (Ink)

[Blackhorse]

Black Swan in Icelandic Minty Bathwater?  Yup.  It’s the working name of an ink concocted by mixing three Noodler’s inks...to get an exceedingly shading teal ink.  There’s a long (8pages) post on the Fountain Pen Network about it.  Just google the ink name and it comes up...among a few others.

It seemingly took years, but the guy finally divulged the recipe:

15x Navajo Turquoise
3x 54th Massachusetts
1x Old Manhattan Blackest Black (only at Fountain Pen Hospital)

Noodler's inks, all three.

It’s supposed to be well behaved.  Following are a few pics.  Remember, the exact colors you’re seeing can be wildly off depending on the software used by the photographer and your hardware’s calibration, etc.

Some pics:

 

[eggman]

That’s a awesome looking ink. I bet it’s expensive to mix up.

 

[Blackhorse]

That’s a awesome looking ink. I bet it’s expensive to mix up.

Well, not really. I have the Turquoise and the 54th Mass in hand. Had to order the special black from the Pen Hospital for $12 for 3 Oz (close to 90 ml) plus shipping. If I use a syringe and pull amounts in cc’s then a test batch would actually incur every little cost. And I’d end up with about 20 cc (same as 20 ml) of ink. A typical converter holds about 1 ml. That’s quite a few fills, really. But yeah...If someone had to buy all the inks fresh then it would be a little spendy.