Inky T O D - What Is Your Method For Keeping Track Of Your Inks?

[napalm]

My valet takes care.

 

- George, do we have any Asa Gao at hand?

- Yes Sir, I just refilled the Montegrappa Salvador Dali this morning at 8 o'clock

- Thank you George, nice color isn't it?

[amberleadavis]

My valet takes care.

 

- George, do we have any Asa Gao at hand?

- Yes Sir, I just refilled the Montegrappa Salvador Dali this morning at 8 o'clock

- Thank you George, nice color isn't it?

 

 

Alas, it's tough to find a George these days.

[The Blue Knight]

Oh go on The Blue Knight, give us a little teaser now . . .

 

I saw a Youtube video at the end of last week which inspired me to catalogue my own inks. Essentially I wanted to do it as cheaply as possible as I'm far more then a pen person then an ink person. So I would rather save money to spend on pens. I came up with the idea of using a business card folder and cutting some sheets of Oxford Optik paper down to size.

 

 

I've only filled 4 pages of folder as I don't have have that many inks however the folder has more then enough space (160 spaces) for the foreseeable future.

 

To do this it only cost me about £3 including postage.

Edited July 11, 2014 by The Blue Knight

[Tas]

Yay!
Love it.

[Bookman]

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Edited July 11, 2014 by Bookman

[ArchiMark]

Clever, Blue Knight......

 

[Chi Town]

I use Jon Ro's pen inventory system that he set up for us here at FPN. There is a section in it for inks, and that is what i use.........

Edited July 12, 2014 by Chi Town

[amberleadavis]

Okay, it hasn't been quite 6 months... but let's follow up.

 

ARE YOU HAPPY WITH YOUR METHOD?

[mhguda]

Absolutely. I do a hardcopy every so many weeks, and I also make a note, every first line with a new pen, of writing down what pen and what ink it is. So I find myself checking my spreadsheet regularly. Now that I am doing all this ink testing, it's invaluable. Couldn't keep them all straight, otherwise...

[amberleadavis]

I had to change my method, the cards were too confusing and laying around everywhere. I tried a couple of notebooks, including these:

 

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gamelife/2010/09/pac-man-moleskine-30th-anniversary-collection-1.jpg

 

The paper on these is LOUSY.

 

So, I've ordered Tomoe River notebooks. I hope that works.

[mirosc]

no method at all.

Why should I? Bottles are labelled. Pens have colors and there's always a tap around...

 

And yes, I'm happy with my method :-)

[Tas]

Same method with my Mnemosyne cards only I have a few more now and a pile devoted to KWZI and SuSeMai inks.

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_mnemosyne_cards_oct_2014.jpg

 

I've updated the doodle I use on my watercolour stocks. I don't draw vases anymore, I draw a salt pot.

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_different_bottles.jpg

[amberleadavis]

Wow

[Lou Erickson]

Six months ago, I didn't have enough inks to worry about. Now, I'm rather relaxed about it. A pen runs out, and I look at the pens and say, "What looks like fun?" and then pick a pen. Then I say, "What ink sounds good?" and put it in that pen. I do try to have different colors going in the two pens I carry. Today it's Tsuki-yo and an orange. Quite contrasting.

 

I'll probably have at least one Iroshizuku inked for the next couple of years...

[stonezebra]

My method is very simple - pen name/color followed by ink color written in a cheap notebook. I just want to know what colors are in each of my pens so I can refill them easily and tell my pen-pals what the various inks are that I use in my letters

[cabbie]

 

 

Thanks!....

 

Was pleasantly surprised at how well they worked for this, size-wise, and taking ink well......

 

 

A friend of mine went to the Arkansas Pen Show. He knows the Col-O-Ring people and said they may be coming out with a Rolodex style system for their cards. If you had only patented your system....