Bottles That You Will Never Finish

[Blue_Moon]

Maybe a better question for me is "What bottle will I finish?"

[GardenCity-NY]

It has to be J. Herbin Vert Olive... I love the idea of this color, and it looks great in the bottle, however on paper it's just too washed out. It's only hope is a newly purchased Pelikan M200 italic which is a very wet writer. This may help with saturation and getting decent amount ink on the paper....

[penswordnoassemblyrequired]

Eau de Nil and Ancient Copper will never be finished and they're the small bottles.

[XiaoMG]

I'll probably never finish Liberty's Elysium, Iroshizuku Momiji or Yama-budo, or Sailor Grenade.

[Fullangr]

This a surprisingly short list, given how much ink I have. Proabably because I tend to buy cartridges first where possible (Private Reserve are brilliant for that).

 

Diamine Syrah - It writes nicely and everything, and in theory I should love the colour but...I dunno. I just can't get excited about it.

 

Diame Grape - As above. I like it a bit more than Syrah, but it's not rich or saturated enough for me to seek it out.

 

Herbin Poussiere de Lune - As above. Perfectly good ink, I just don't have strong enough feelings about it to use it very often. Now that I've got Sailor Grenade, I can't see PdL getting out of my ink drawer again any time soon.

 

Private Reserve Electric DC Blue - Actually one of my favourite inks (and my darling Sargasso Sea's better behaved, slightly more dignified twin), but it's so saturated that regardless of how well behaved it is, taking it out and about gets messy unless you use cartridges. I have a bottle purely as back-up in case PR ever stop doing it in cartridges.

Edited September 25, 2014 by Fullangr

[Fullangr]

Oh, and I also have Havana Brown, which I'm not keen on but will never use up because it was my dad's, and Parker Blue with SOLV-X, also his, that I keep purely for the smell. I get it out every so often just to have a good sniff - because that's what ink should smell like

Edited September 25, 2014 by Fullangr