Guess whos back.
Forgot the password for my original name, maybe mods wanna help me out with that shit?
Anyways some advice:
1) Stop buying exotic overseas ink. Utilize what you got available locally or cheaply, whether it's Marsh, Pilot, Nero or whatever.
2) Marsh and Pilot are almost one of the same, and both very good base inks.
3) Leather dye: fuck that shit. It just looks nasty, drips bad, beads up and spreads out. Maybe if you got an insides scene as far as your local transit system, but for outdoorsy shit it's not to be fucked with.
4) Methylene blue and gentian violet + a nice base ink like Pilot/Marsh stain just as hard if not harder then Garvey, and won't fade in the sunlight like Garvey does. I'm pretty sure it's the gentian violet in Garvey that makes it stain?
5) Acetone is a good thinner, though it can fuck with certain plastics (a.k.a. your marker).
6) Xylene, another dirty chemical that will thin your paints and inks better then the rest!
7) You can mix methylene blue into silver paint and make some pretty staining, durable shit. Add some acetone for thinner, put it in a mop, and hit the town.
8) In all cases, Krylon UFB with a NY Fat > fancy ink recipes and markers.
9) Does break fluid really do much for inks? Nah, fuck that shit!
10) Potassium permanganate - whats the deal nigga.
11) Rob your local high schools chemistry lab, you know they got the hook up.
Yeah.