Pigment ink pen

[canonitr]

Hi, first post here..

I just started last week and recently I made a simple card holder by sewing 2 pieces of 4oz together, and stamped it with family initials and a choice of some numbers for personalization.

fearing the stamp would not be obvious enough, I decided to color in the debossed part.. for now, a Uni-ball roller gel ink pen (gold) seems to work.. the ink is water/uv resistant, and is pigment based.. tip is 0.8mm, so it might be big for certain widths...

womder if anybody else had tried it before, and what were the results... I don’t want to continue this method if it has problems further down the line..

[fredk]

I did this game board about 15 years ago using a gold gel ink pen;

I also use metallic ink pens by Molotow and also paint pens

No problems so far.

But seal the ink with resolene or something similar; the ink remains water soluble. If your item gets in the least bit wet the ink will thin and run.

[Stetson912]

Interesting. Never woulda thunk it haha. Funny how the simlest things tend to work so well. 

[canonitr]

Fred: noted and thanks. Was reading up on sealing ., will be visiting the store 

 

Stetson: I was gonna use paint, but my hands weren’t steady enough.. and I was thinking if pen would work...

[canonitr]

6 hours ago, fredk said:

But seal the ink with resolene or something similar; the ink remains water soluble. If your item gets in the least bit wet the ink will thin and run.

Oh, one more thing, it was mentioned that the ink is able to withstand “cheque washing” .. it’s resistant to a number of household Cleaners as well...

Uni-ball ink

 

 

[Stetson912]

I've antiqued with acrylic paint. But that requires a resist finish first. But it worked ok