My Inks

March 22, 2013

that there is at least 5 lifetime's worth of inks. you could paint the entire room with ink and still have some left over methinks

If they were all full there would be only 10,023.5ml or just over ten litres of ink!!!

March 22, 2013

Wow. My husband thinks I have too many ink bottles already.... And I've just added a couple colors to my "wish list" to sample the next time I'm ordering inks and pens.
Did you try samples of these first, or just bite the bullet and order 'em all as full bottles? I know I have a higher number of ink vials than actual bottles, and with a few exceptions (Pharmacist's iron gall inks the vintage Quink Brown, a couple of Noodler's highlighter inks, and the freebie bottle of Platinum Mix-Free Flame Red I got when I ordered my first Konrad last year) always sampled first.
And how many of these are duplicate bottles, or are they all different?
Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

No never buy samples just go the full bottle. Early on I was influenced by Glenn Marcus of http://www.marcuslink.com/pens/index.html his Inks of Note gave me an idea of what to buy. I think I only have two of the same ink (Waterman Blue Black) one I bought in 1997 the other in 2010. I don't consider them to be a double as the formulation is different. I buy Noodler's inks as much for the label art as the ink colour and as I like to complete sets of things I own iroshizuku inks in colours that are down right unmanly. My wife has never seen all of my inks out on a desk (it would probably shock her ) There are still lots of inks I want.

March 22, 2013

I am so impressed!!!!

March 22, 2013

Holy Cow! I am quite jealous....

March 22, 2013

double post, disregard....

Edited March 22, 2013 by ParkersandPilots

March 23, 2013

No never buy samples just go the full bottle. Early on I was influenced by Glenn Marcus of http://www.marcuslink.com/pens/index.html his Inks of Note gave me an idea of what to buy. I think I only have two of the same ink (Waterman Blue Black) one I bought in 1997 the other in 2010. I don't consider them to be 1a double as the formulation is different. I buy Noodler's inks as much for the label art as the ink colour and as I like to complete sets of things I own iroshizuku inks in colours that are down right unmanly. My wife has never seen all of my inks out on a desk (it would probably shock her ) There are still lots of inks I want.

I can't afford to do that. I just spent a chunk of money -- money that *could* have gone to inks -- on an Ebay auction for my very first Parker 51 Aerometric (had a 51 Special but this is my first "real" 51).

The advantage to samples is that they're cheap, and if I don't like the ink I'm not out very much money. I don't care how nice the labels are -- I'm not buying Noodler's (or any other brand) for the labels, I'm buying them for the ink. I would have been pretty torqued, for example, to have bought a full bottle of La Reine Mauve (which, as it turned out, I *loathed*) and then be stuck with it. OTOH, I tried a sample of J Herbin's Rouge Hematite, mostly to see what the fuss was all about, and the sample convinced me that I definitely wanted to spring for a full bottle, even though it's a fairly expensive ink. Ditto for Noodler's Kung Te Cheng, which is probably my favorite ink -- although Noodler's Manhattan Blue is coming up fast on the rail. NMB was one that I *couldn't* get a sample of first, because it's exclusive to Art Brown's in NYC -- I could only look at their swab book, and take Mrs. Brown's advice, and hope for the best (fortunately, I had brought a sample of the ink I had been trying to match, and I knew that if I didn't like it I wss also getting a bottle of Diamine Denim -- which I *had* tried, and which was also a pretty close match to what I wanted).

I can buy one bottle of ink or 8-12 samples. If I don't know what the ink is like color- or behavior-wise I want to do samples first as much as humanly possible.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

March 23, 2013

No never buy samples just go the full bottle. Early on I was influenced by Glenn Marcus of http://www.marcuslink.com/pens/index.html his Inks of Note gave me an idea of what to buy. I think I only have two of the same ink (Waterman Blue Black) one I bought in 1997 the other in 2010. I don't consider them to be 1a double as the formulation is different. I buy Noodler's inks as much for the label art as the ink colour and as I like to complete sets of things I own iroshizuku inks in colours that are down right unmanly. My wife has never seen all of my inks out on a desk (it would probably shock her ) There are still lots of inks I want.

I can't afford to do that. I just spent a chunk of money -- money that *could* have gone to inks -- on an Ebay auction for my very first Parker 51 Aerometric (had a 51 Special but this is my first "real" 51).
The advantage to samples is that they're cheap, and if I don't like the ink I'm not out very much money. I don't care how nice the labels are -- I'm not buying Noodler's (or any other brand) for the labels, I'm buying them for the ink. I would have been pretty torqued, for example, to have bought a full bottle of La Reine Mauve (which, as it turned out, I *loathed*) and then be stuck with it. OTOH, I tried a sample of J Herbin's Rouge Hematite, mostly to see what the fuss was all about, and the sample convinced me that I definitely wanted to spring for a full bottle, even though it's a fairly expensive ink. Ditto for Noodler's Kung Te Cheng, which is probably my favorite ink -- although Noodler's Manhattan Blue is coming up fast on the rail. NMB was one that I *couldn't* get a sample of first, because it's exclusive to Art Brown's in NYC -- I could only look at their swab book, and take Mrs. Brown's advice, and hope for the best (fortunately, I had brought a sample of the ink I had been trying to match, and I knew that if I didn't like it I wss also getting a bottle of Diamine Denim -- which I *had* tried, and which was also a pretty close match to what I wanted).
I can buy one bottle of ink or 8-12 samples. If I don't know what the ink is like color- or behavior-wise I want to do samples first as much as humanly possible.
Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Congratulations on the Parker 51!

We are lucky that we all enjoy our use of fountain pens in different ways. For 13 years I owned one fountain pen with one nib and used Waterman Blue Black ink exclusively (actually never tried any other colour). One day I decided I wanted to use my fountain pen again. This lead me to this "evil" forum which opened my eyes to many of pens, nib styles and inks. I heard an interview with Nathan Tardif whose comments around the meanings of the naming and label art of his inks interested me so much that I now collection Noodler's inks bottles even if I don't need another midnight or teal coloured ink. I suppose there is no ink in my collection that I hate, some just are not as suitable for day to day writing, these ones normally get a run in a broad nib and are used for marking up documents at the office. I recently had Diamine Denim and Noodler's Manhattan Blue in use at the same time and struggled to tell them apart. If I lived in the US I would buy more samples myself but freight on samples is the same as bottles of ink (which makes a fair proportion of the total cost) so I buy full bottles instead.

March 23, 2013

Bloody hell! And I mean that in the nicest possible way, it was just my first reaction... My 15 ink collection pales by comparison... While my manual skills are very low at that point I would start thinking of a way of storing / displaying them... I wonder if led lights degrade inks so you could put one under each...

Looks like like a mac setup with a Samsung monitor? Same here! Congratulations on the humongous collection.