Those gorgeous silver lines with that beautiful red tinge to them that you just saw was an
inkredible experiment (pun intended) that we did a while back where we combined the high quality
Krink K60 silver paint formula with the new Inkredible ink by On the Run. And what did it
do? It mixed perfectly! You can check that video out in the corner where the cards are or in the
description of course, but it was right then that i knew that this ink was going to be a fun one to
work with on its own as well. And that is exactly what we're going to be doing today guys while we
do, number one, a full surface tagging test with the otr972 Inkredible Ink and, secondly,
a buff test using some of the most common buffing materials that those buffers are going to try to
use to remove your nice inky tags! So, if that sounds good to you guys, let's get right into it!
So i'm just going to briefly mention the things that graffiti artists and graffiti
writers are going to need to know, who are considering trying out this otr Inkredible ink
for themselves. So, this stuff is at least what they're calling heavy duty industrial ink,
and on the label it puts an emphasis on permanence and weatherproofness. It does not, in any way,
say that it's buff proof or anything like that, but it does emphasize those permanence aspects
of it. It says "highly permanent, weatherproof, and ultra uv resistant" as well, whatever that
means for an ink. Those of us who have used many inks over the years will know that in general inks
are not that ultra uv resistant, but hey who knows. This one in particular here says it's
an alcohol-based ink. For those of you who don't know, inks in particular have a soluble pigment,
which means it dissolves in the other fluids that make up the ink. That solubility is what
helps these inks bind to a surface and actually stain a surface or stain something that's trying
to cover it up and bleed through. The Inkredible ink bottles here come in 120 ml and one of these
babies will put you out about 12 US dollars. To break that down, that's a nice easy dollar per
10 ml. OTR currently only offers the Inkredible ink in either black or red, so a bit more of a
limited colour selection than you see with some other brands, although not too limited considering
that most inks are like that. I do have to say the sort of spout opening at the top is quite nice for
filling up your mops. But speaking of mops, that is going to be the real test: how does this write
in your everyday graffiti mops? And that's exactly what we're going to be testing out
right now as we fill up a mop with this Inkredible ink and start our surface test. And after that
of course we'll be answering the question: how does this stand up to a little bit of buffing?
So, with that in mind let's head over to our testing area and start throwing some tags up!
Welcome to the testing area everyone. Today we have two sort of surfaces. One
is this nice silky smooth, one of the smoothest you could possibly want to write on
with a mop. Those are always super fun. We're gonna write on that and then we have the same
surface but an unfinished version of that surface to sort of help this ink settle into the surface
a little bit, give it a chance to bite that surface which could make a difference for the
buff test. We will see. So, without further ado let's start tagging up some subscribers names
who've asked me for hit offs in a video or names of those who have supported me on my patreon,
things like that, or bought some of the Sciz Graffiti merch that we have here. And while we
tag up those subscribers names, i'll be giving you guys an idea of two things in particular.
One is what we like to call the "dripability" here on the channel of this Inkredible ink, which
is really just how viscous the incredible ink is. And, secondly, the colour. Now i know there's only
two colours you can possibly get this ink in. It really is much more of a bomber-oriented ink in
that respect, as are most inks, but the colour it produces does speak to how consistent the formula
is and how precisely formulated it is as well. So, we want to pay attention to those two aspects
of this ink in particular as well as of course i'll be trying to give you guys my commentary
on just how it feels to write with this ink in a fairly standard graffiti mop that i have cleaned
out here, so we get a true representation of the Inkredible ink by otr here. So, i'll be trying to
tell you guys how it feels to write with this ink, what i'm getting a sense of that you might not
be able to explicitly see on camera yourself. So, let's fill this beauty up and get some tags down!
So, i think it took about a tag and a half just to clear the nib of any leftover paint debris
that was in it. Look at that colour. Geez! Look how gorgeous this is too; holy hell.
Right after that you could tell it was still just a really really nice red we're working with here.
But they really nailed it with this red. I'd actually go as far as saying that the colour as a
whole is more of like a mid-tone red. You picture ink colours always being on the darker side;
this one's on the darker side too but it's much lighter than a lot of inks you might
get I think. That's a really nice touch - just just the red itself, i was very impressed with.
Something i do want to point out is just sort of the way the ink settles at the bottom of
these lines. That's always been something really really awesome to look at because those lines
almost create the illusion of a bit of a three-dimensional tag, with a maybe a bit
of a drop shadow type thing going on there. Love that look. That's just incredible to see. And this
ink does that very well. And to me that gets into the formulation part of what we're talking about
here. And the formula is just consistent. It's a great formula it seems like to me.
Very well put together. What you're always worried about with an ink is just that the binder isn't
going to be quite there, but this one definitely has that going for it. It gets those nice drips
sort of where you'd expect at the end of letters and whatnot, but they're not overpowering the tag.
I was squeezing a normal amount, just what i'm used to, and using the molotow dripstick i think
is actually a very good choice for this because even though it's called a molotow dripstick, i've
said this in past videos on the molotow dripstick, it's a little bit of a harder mop. And using a bit
of a harder mop with an ink is always a little bit nicer I find. That's just a personal sort of feel.
And being that it is that sort of consistency and viscosity,
you don't really feel like you're wasting a lot of ink which is always nice as well because,
specifically with inks and ones in you know those 120 ml bottles, if you do get this nice sort of
viscosity, this ink can go pretty far for 120 mils, which is something a lot of the
more budget conscious writers among us will be concerned about. I'm always concerned about that!
As for the feel, again i just have to emphasize that because this ink is a little
bit on the thicker side, i would say for an ink specifically, obviously not compared to paints,
but for an ink specifically it does feel just very comfortable to write with. If you're someone
like me who's used to using paints more often, i found it to be a very nice sort of mid-range
consistent formula to work with, in terms of that viscosity. So, it's definitely a nice one
to work with if you are used to working with paints more often. I guess i should
comment specifically on the differences between the unfinished and the finished
surfaces here. The unfinished i obviously sort of prefer that more because the drips are just
a little more controlled. Drips are drips, but i don't love a million of them in one place. That
being said though, the finished surface here that we have, you do really start to see those drips
flowing. Hopefully you're getting a bit of a good idea of just how this formula will look if you're
going to write on sort of glass surfaces with it, tile surfaces, finished surfaces like that, that
inks traditionally have a hard time binding to and biting of course on those finished
surfaces. You do see a bit more streakiness in the lines, but that is natural and a direct result
of the surface we're using a mop on, so that's certainly no fault of the ink itself.
So, i feel like i could talk all day about this Inkredible ink, but i think i've given you guys
the best idea that i can just by showing you a few tags in a standard graffiti mop with the
Inkredible ink. So, as promised, we are going to now test i guess the character of this Inkredible
ink from otr by doing a good old-fashioned buff test with some of the standard materials that
those buff clowns out there trying to take your tags down are going to be using! And i do have
to give credit to, i believe that his username is Mallard Ducks for that term 'buff clowns.' He said
that's what he calls the buff man and i saw that and immediately loved it. But anyway, what we're
gonna do here is we're gonna let this settle in and seep into the surface a little bit on the
unfinished and the sort of more finished surface here before we try and buff this with some of the
sort of household buffing materials that a lot of people will be able to get their hands on, to try
and buff tags like this. And after that, at the end, i'll be able to tell you guys as a graffiti
writer what kind of graffiti artists and graffiti writers might want to give this ink a try and who
among us might want to just give it a pass. So let's give this a chance to settle shall we.
Okay, so firstly we're gonna do it on the finished surface and see,
number one, i have some standard acetone here that we're gonna use. By the way,
i should be wearing gloves. This is dry to the touch. Let's see what acetone can do to it here...
Yeah just a little bit of acetone and it's coming right off. Recharge our buffing material a little
bit here; i'm just soaking like a little spot here, um but as you can see it rips
right through it. It doesn't stand a chance! So like not worried days yet. So i know some
of the bar bomber oriented graffiti artists here might be saying, "okay well is this ink
actually any good right now?" Well, let's just try standard off-the-shelf graffiti remover here. So,
what this does is yeah you can see the effect of that right there before we do anything. So,
you know exactly what's coming when we do that. That picks that up right there. And again i'll say
it doesn't stand a chance! That's on the finished surface though.
Let's try something up here a little bit on our unfinished surface. Okay so on the unfinished
surface here we got our little acetone towel again. Let's see what it does to this bliss tag.
Well, it's leaving an okay ghost there. I'm getting a ton of acetone up just to see
if we can do anything here.
Wow, look at that. So, i mean you can lighten this up quite a bit but that is a very very clear
beautiful ghost of a tag right there. And that is just gorgeous to see. It doesn't
really matter how hard i push on it either. Like that's just there for the long haul,
you could say. But some slightly less well-versed people in buffing might just
be using as a standard graffiti buffer. So, let's see if it fares any better on this tag.
Well, we're not getting as much of the runniness right away...
Wow...
All right. Last try before we make any conclusions here.
So, i think i have to conclude here that there's just a very clear ghost of a tag here.
Clearly it's still a bliss tag. To me that just stood up to the buff with your standard buffing
materials and that's very encouraging, especially with uh acetone being one of the heavier chemicals
that people try and use for buffing And it didn't do that much to this actually. So,
you might be left wondering now are there any downsides to this ink? Well, i guess the best
way to do that is let's just sit down, have a quick chat and i'll let you know some of the pros
and cons of this ink and who among us graffiti writers will probably enjoy using such an ink.
Okay, so pros and cons of this ink. Who's it for? What are we looking at here? Well the main thing i
would say about this ink if someone were to ask me to sum it up in a phrase or two is just that
it's a really well formulated ink. It definitely displayed that sort of consistency and a really
professionally engineered ink is i guess how you could state it. And to further that statement,
you did see that the ink does have that bite to it. It can settle into a surface, dependent
on what the surface is. That's not to say it's entirely buff-proof, and specifically the second
surface where it did sort of leave a bit of a ghost of a tag is a polyplastic, which those tend
to really absorb inks quite easily and they're one of the harder surfaces to buff. So, it might
not do as well on some other surfaces. But, in general i think the ink is quite strong. So, you
have a strong, well-formulated ink here. Now those are the two pros of the ink. And obviously i think
the bomber oriented graffiti writers, especially the drip heads, are licking their lips right now
thinking, 'yeah let me get my hands on this.' And that's probably how i'd sum up the people who are
gonna be interested in using this ink. If you are a more graffiti bomber oriented type artist,
then this is for you. There's no two ways about it. It works beautifully in any kind of standard
mop. The dripstick here was a nice one to use with it I think. I just wanted to give it a chance to
shine and show what a pretty standard 10 mil nib can do to lay some lines down with Inkredible ink.
The only people i think should just not really touch this ink are if you're looking for a lot of
variety, if you're looking for a lot of colours here, then obviously that's just not going to
happen here, and i don't think it's too likely to happen in the future either. I would doubt that
the product depth is going to be expanded anytime soon with regards to colour palette. The only
other aspect of it that's a little bit irritating is the aspect that's always irritating no matter
what you're buying: and that is the price. 12 USD for 120 ml - that's not cheap. Let's face it. As i
said before, 10 mils per dollar; you really gotta watch your pocket on that a little bit. It's far
from the cheapest kind of ink you can get, it's also far from the most expensive though. So,
it is probably a nice mid-range ink. And if you look at the overall value to see if this
is an ink for you, i would just say figure out what you want this ink for, and then look
at the aspects of this ink that are what i was saying are the pros and the cons. That'll sort
of help you figure out if it is an ink for you. If you are interested in a little bit more on the
molotow dripstick 860ds here that I have, i did a full comprehensive review on the molotow
dripsticks. You can check that out on screen now. I hope to see y'all over there! Until then, peace!