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Inkistry 2025 – 5 January

Ow that you’ve seen the experiments the last four days with two Birmingham recipes (Ohio River and Ice Rink), and how I intend to play either them this year, the game is afoot! It seems best at this point for you and me to get a solid handle on the Keystone Element Inks as standalone…
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Inkistry 2025 – 4 January

Introducing… Salty Ohio Ice Rick “Volt”! We definitely learned some things today. I decided to add 4 parts Saltwater Taffy, which is a light pink/red/orange looking ink in the bottle. I was thinking it would. Ring out the reddish sheen of the Tesla Coil. Instead, it intensified and darkened the blue! This produced an ink…
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Inkistry 2025 – 3 January

There are roughly 20 Keystone inks in my collection (I think I’m missing one or two that have been sold out), and from the Keystone Formula Inks on the Birmingham website, you can discover recipes for about 144 named inks made with varying amounts of Keystone inks. So Ohio River is a Birmingham color whose…
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Inkistry 2025

New Year, new ink project! While I stopped blogging my daily inks last year, I did complete the project on NYE, using a different ink bottle each day of 2024. And now it’s time for… INKISTRY 2025! In which I play mad chemist with Birmingham Pen Company’s line of Keystone Formula Inks. You’ll be learning…