Inky T O D - What Ink Do Buy Despite The Bottle?

[amberleadavis]

We've all ... okay most all of us ... have bought inks because of the cool bottle.

 

But some inks don't come in bottles, they come in little pouches.

 

What ink(s) do you buy even if you hate the bottle or it doesn't come in a bottle.

[ellenspn]

Oh dear, probably Private Reserve Rose Rage, the bottle is downright boring.

[Algester]

R & K Alt-goldgrun

Diamine Wagner

Noodler's inks

J. Herbin inks beautiful inks but the 100ml bottle... kinda eh

Edited May 19, 2014 by Algester

[dcwaites]

I'm boring. I buy inks for the ink. The container doesn't count, with one exception.

I bought two bottles of old, expired Mont Blanc Blue Black ink, for the bottles. The ink had degraded and was no longer ink, but I was expecting that. So, really, I bought the bottles for the bottles.

 

However, some inks do come with bonzer bottles (Mont Blanc, Lamy, Parker Penman), and it is a pleasure to re-purpose them after the contents are finished.

[Tanzanite]

J Herbin inks. My favouries are Eclat de Saphir, Bleu Nuit and Violette Pensee. But the bottles are small and low and a pen with a large nib can only be filled a few times before the ink level gets to low. The bottles look nice but are not practical.

[AndrewC]

J Herbin inks. My favouries are Eclat de Saphir, Bleu Nuit and Violette Pensee. But the bottles are small and low and a pen with a large nib can only be filled a few times before the ink level gets to low. The bottles look nice but are not practical.

Get some modelling clay and stick the bottle onto a back corner in the clay. Use enough to stabilize the bottle and you can get a couple more fills from the bottle that way. And I agree, those bottles are a PITA.

[Zilknitha]

Diamine saddle brown...athough when I ordered the bottle I didn't realise there was such a big difference between the 30ml and 50ml bottles. Its one of my favourite inks at the moment

[thesunshine]

Oh, Noodler's!

 

I understand the philosophy behind filling the bottle to the brim... but I would pay the same amount (and be happier) for a partly emptied bottle where I didn't have to worry about spilling ink everywhere for the first few fills.

 

I still buy Noodler's though. Bulletproof Black is by far my favourite ink.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I'd go with pouches, some Paris ink maker ships that way....if I had empty bottles.

 

Being cheap, always in search of new inks....when the bottle gets low....it gets 'saved'.

[strictlyobiter]

J Herbin inks. My favouries are Eclat de Saphir, Bleu Nuit and Violette Pensee. But the bottles are small and low and a pen with a large nib can only be filled a few times before the ink level gets to low. The bottles look nice but are not practical.

Agree totally. Awful bottles to fill from but some of my favourite inks. The 100ml bottles are even more unwieldy.

[Dottie]

Agree on the J Herbin bottles. Thanks, AndrewC for the clay suggestion. I've used a thin book to prop it up but it can go skittering off it.

 

Another is the Namiki Blue bottle. After it reaches the halfway mark, it is a pain to fill a fountain pen from it. It is a favorite of mine so I have even tried emptying it into another ink bottle to use.

[Tanzanite]

Get some modelling clay and stick the bottle onto a back corner in the clay. Use enough to stabilize the bottle and you can get a couple more fills from the bottle that way. And I agree, those bottles are a PITA.

 

Thank you. I will try modelling clay. I use to balance the bottle on one corner but it´s an accident waiting to happen.

[mwpannell]

Hasn't mattered, really. But to dig for an answer, and an honest one, I'd have to say all inks because nothing comes in old Sheaffer's ink well bottles anymore. I'd have to make an exception if I ever bought an Akkerman ink, though. They're very cool and have their own inventive ink well.

[lapis]

A. All 1670s, cuz my M1000 says "CHOKE".

B. All Noodler's (whatever size) cuz they're all too full (yeah, yeah, I know why....) But alone their names and labels are all fantastic.

C. All plastic bottles simply because I prefer glass....

 

Mike

[AndrewC]

Hasn't mattered, really. But to dig for an answer, and an honest one, I'd have to say all inks because nothing comes in old Sheaffer's ink well bottles anymore. I'd have to make an exception if I ever bought an Akkerman ink, though. They're very cool and have their own inventive ink well.

Levenger ink bottles have a plastic insert that is an ink well and it works very well.

[WaskiSquirrel]

Sailor: the bottle isn't tall enough for most of my pens and I have to take out the plastic insert just to fit the pens into the bottle held at a slant while I fill.

 

Noodler's 4.5 oz: I love the brand, and I buy the larger bottles when possible, but they're too narrow to fill from easily, and I need somewhere to set the eyedropper down while I fill.

[Runnin_Ute]

At one time or another:

Levenger (kept the empty Raven Black bottle)

Pelikan

Noodler's - kind of boring

Diamine

[Davros]

I decant most inks, but I have no love for the Herbin or Sailor bottles, which are pretty but not terribly functional. I am going to start asking Diamond to stop sending me the glass 80ml bottles, since I have a rack of empties and prefer the plastic bottles for storage.

[CaptainBA]

I bought this little 30ml bottle of Diamine Soft Mint from my local pen store. I really like the color but the bottle is so boring! Just a long rectangular prism with a screw top. All the 30ml bottles of Diamine are like that. I really like the Diamine colors so I'll probably be buying more.

[Jimmy Joe]

Another is the Namiki Blue bottle. After it reaches the halfway mark, it is a pain to fill a fountain pen from it. It is a favorite of mine so I have even tried emptying it into another ink bottle to use.

My bottle of Namiki Blue has a plastic insert that fills with ink when the bottle is inverted, so this isn't an issue.