Having So Many Inks

[visvamitra]

That's cool Amber

[dcwaites]

Amber is so cool she could combat global warming by standing in her garden and exuding cool.

[Tas]

Ooo, looking forward to following the madness. Great idea . . .

[Fuzzy_Bear]

Oddly enough, I have used up 2 bottles of ink and am 1/2 way through a third. Auroras Black then Texas Bluebonnet. I am about to finish up a bottle of PR Chocolat. Have away my 1/2 bottle of Pelikan black to my daughter's BFF who moved to New Mexico along with a Pilot 78G.

 

With writing letters to friend and family now and journaling, one or the other everyday, I am addressing top use ink a bit more quickly. I admit to being a hoarders of ink. I bought some just 'cause.

[amberleadavis]

That's cool Amber

 

 

Amber is so cool she could combat global warming by standing in her garden and exuding cool.

 

 

Ooo, looking forward to following the madness. Great idea . . .

 

 

Thank you, guys!

 

Here is the post:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/302185-2016-an-ink-a-day-or-30-inks-per-month-at-least/

[FOUR X FOUR]

I feel lonely now with 6 bottles and 8 samples...

You have the power to change this

[visvamitra]

FOUR X FOUR is right. You can change it any moment

[eliweisz]

I use about 20 inks, incl. cartridges. Maybe it's too much for my twenty-something pens, most of which are sitting dry, waiting for a new rotation (after long months of writing / testing craze I don't fill more than six pens at once). Anyway, I'd like to explore some less-known inks like Diamine Tyrian Purple, Presidential Blue, or Cult Pens Deep Dark Green. To test a new pen, I always use something simple: Pelikan 4001, Parker Quink, Waterman Serenity Blue. Lately, I try to get the most out of these inks, using them with my flex and stub nibs. Suddenly, Pelikan Royal Blue appears not so boring as it seems in a "regular" pen, and Serenity Blue is exciting, to say the least.

[FOUR X FOUR]

Thank you Charles. This thread reminded me that I don't have enough ink. Last night I bought, I think, 5 bottles from Goulet.

All blue inks. Different brands.

[Piper 987]

I'm in a bad way. I live in a small city that doesn't have much of a selection of bottled inks. It's winter in northern British Columbia and ordering ink online gets you home delivery of frozen and burst bottles of such sadness as to make spring seem impossibly distant.

 

sigh

 

It's called "Fountain Pen Seasonal Affective Disorder" and the only cure is time.

 

It's almost enough to make a guy take up ice fishing... but not quite. Standing on frozen water brings back such painful memories. Like ink, fishing waters should be liquid. And I keep missing the damned hole in the ice with my cast fly!!

[dcwaites]

I'm in a bad way. I live in a small city that doesn't have much of a selection of bottled inks. It's winter in northern British Columbia and ordering ink online gets you home delivery of frozen and burst bottles of such sadness as to make spring seem impossibly distant.

 

sigh

 

It's called "Fountain Pen Seasonal Affective Disorder" and the only cure is time.

 

It's almost enough to make a guy take up ice fishing... but not quite. Standing on frozen water brings back such painful memories. Like ink, fishing waters should be liquid. And I keep missing the damned hole in the ice with my cast fly!!

 

Hmmm, with my limited understanding of ice fishing techniques (the only ice around where I live is in the top part of the 'fridge) I would gently like to suggest you may need some guidance here...

[torstar]

A resolution was to pick 3 inks for the current rotation, of the 120 bottles and use it and appreciate them only for a few fills.

 

That lasted until January 2nd.

[thygreyt]

This thread is not helping matters...

 

I'm going to be purchasing about ~10 inks in the next month or so.

so far its going to be all 4 of the 1670 J herbins (love the samples i've tried), 2 caran d'ache, and will be testing more inks... i have the 6 mentioned or maybe a few more (once i test them)..

 

joining the fpn has not helped my wallet.

[Arkanabar]

I'm in a bad way. I live in a small city that doesn't have much of a selection of bottled inks. It's winter in northern British Columbia and ordering ink online gets you home delivery of frozen and burst bottles of such sadness as to make spring seem impossibly distant.

 

sigh

 

It's called "Fountain Pen Seasonal Affective Disorder" and the only cure is time.

 

It's almost enough to make a guy take up ice fishing... but not quite. Standing on frozen water brings back such painful memories. Like ink, fishing waters should be liquid. And I keep missing the damned hole in the ice with my cast fly!!

The other cure is Noodler's Polar inks. They contain antifreeze!

[WilsonCQB1911]

I only have 5 inks and never get the chance to use all of them...

[Shaggy]

I only have 8 inks, and some of them don't see much use.

 

Favorites:

* Pilot Namiki Blue Black - well-behaved in every pen, safe for business, water resistant...but a bit on the dull side. I do like the off-black color.

* Pilot Namiki Blue - same pros as the last one: well-behaved, business appropriate, and great water resistance, but a little flat for my taste (though not as bad as some other blues). It's my default ink to use with a new pen because it's so consistently smooth flowing.

* Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki - I have a thing for turquoise. I like how well this flows, and I love a turquoise that leans blue. If anything, I wish it had more turquoise and less blue. This is probably my favorite blue of all time.

* Pilot Iroshizuku Ku Jaku - A bit green for my taste, but nice and dark and easy to read on the page.

 

 

Inks I could live without:

* DeAtramentis Document Ink, Fuchsia - I keep this only for markup. Love the pure fuchsia color, and it's nice to have markup be permanent. When I use it up, I'll probably replace it with Yama Budo.

* DeAtramentis mint turquoise - leans green and runs a bit dry. I write on cream colored paper, and it's a bit hard to read back when it's dry.

* Diamine Havasu Turquoise - love the color, but it's so bright that it's difficult to read back when written with on cream-colored paper. Also a bit wet for some of my papers. And in a fine nib, it can get lost on the page because it tends toward pale.

* Diamine Red Dragon - nice for markup, but I find the color a bit meh. Not a big red fan. I use it mostly during the holidays.

 

If I could find another good off-black that was water resistant, I'd be happy.

Edited January 8, 2016 by Shaggy

[rxgus]

I have a bazillion ink samples that I will never ink enough of- let alone full bottles.

 

I really do so little writting other than at work- and at work I only use simple/professional inks. Even a 3ml sample of a color is enough to last me 2 months...

[Noihvo]

I've got…

 

 

Forty-two bottles of ink in the desk, forty-two bottles of ink.

I ink a pen up, I'll give it a go,

still got forty-two bottles of ink!

 

I have never met an ink I did not like, so I use every single one of them, a little bit each (just like my pens). Hence the Monochrome Project, to at least see some kind of reduction in their number. Though I think that I just don't have enough shades of warm, yellowish green.

 

Forty-three bottles of ink in the desk…

[sakayume]

As a very lazy person who is too lazy even to muster up the (inconsiderable) effort required to flush and clean a fountain pen when changing ink colours, I prefer to dedicate an ink to each pen I own. So even though I have a good amount of bottles (though much less than many responders here!), I use only a fraction of them and hence don't feel the urge to buy any more. Although I'm sure if/when I actually finish a bottle my acquisition urges will kick in again.

[snowbear]

Not counting the acrylics, I have 14 bottles of ink - reds, purples, blues, a couple browns, an orange, a grey and a black. I have a few samples left (a green, a blue, a couple of reds) and a sample of Blue Ghost UV/Invisible for playing with.

 

I have six more samples on the way for the two brush pens I just ordered - greys, blacks and darker greens.

 

I have been "collecting" for less than a year. I can see now, I will need a larger space (and budget).