How Much To Stockpile Of Your Favorites?

[DvdRiet]

22 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

Here's a part, not all, of my stockpile of new/unopened bottles of ink, as of December 2021 (and I trust no more is coming in the remainder of the year):

 

A thousand years from now you will still be trying to empty those bottles! 😁

[fireant]

21 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

Here's a part, not all, of my stockpile of new/unopened bottles of ink, as of December 2021 (and I trust no more is coming in the remainder of the year):

 

What ink is in the yellow bottles (in the box with the Lamy box)? I still haven't bought any of the MB Beatles ink.

 

[lgsoltek]

1 hour ago, fireant said:

 

What ink is in the yellow bottles (in the box with the Lamy box)? I still haven't bought any of the MB Beatles ink.

 

I believe those are Jacques Herbin inks. The labels seem to be grey so perhaps Gris de Houle?

[A Smug Dill]

23 hours ago, lgsoltek said:

I believe those are Jacques Herbin inks. The labels seem to be grey so perhaps Gris de Houle?

 

Well spotted! 👏 Two bottles of Jacques Herbin Gris de Houle, and six of Jacques Herbin Noir Abyssal. In that box, there are also a bottle of Jacques Herbin Vert Atlantide, two of Lamy Benitoite (one of which is gift-wrapped, to go with a Kaco Edge in blue, but I didn't end up giving them away as originally intended), too, and three 30ml bottles of Diamine Irisdescink (Lil' Bob, Lil' Chris, and Lil'  Pip) you can barely see ‘below’ the Lamy box.

[Mr5x5]

In reference to "how much" I would be tempted to say "more".  I found an ink that I really like and it was part of a limited edition run and it is no longer available.  After seeing what some folks have stockpiled, more may not be the correct answer! 🤣 Maybe "as much as you think you will want in your lifetime and a little more". 

[Detman101]

Just like with my favorite fragrances...at least 5 bottles.
I find myself going through my favorite inks at an ever-increasing pace now that I have a marvelous nib in my pen.
I cannot stop writing and creating lovely calligraphic musings on every piece of paper that I come across.

[fireant]

3 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Well spotted! Two bottles of Jacques Herbin Gris de Houle, and six of Jacques Herbin Noir Abyssal. In that box, there are also a bottle of Jacques Herbin Vert Atlantide, two of Lamy Benitoite (one of which is gift-wrapped, to go with a Kaco Edge in blue, but I didn't end up giving them away as originally intended), too, and three 30ml bottles of Diamine Irisdescink (Lil' Bob, Lil' Chris, and Lil'  Pip) you can barely see ‘below’ the Lamy box.

 

Thank you for indulging my nosiness. I coudln't figure out the brand.

 

 

[fireant]

7 hours ago, lgsoltek said:

I believe those are Jacques Herbin inks. The labels seem to be grey so perhaps Gris de Houle?

 

 

You are amazing.

[lapis]

On 12/15/2021 at 11:47 AM, DvdRiet said:

 

A thousand years from now you will still be trying to empty those bottles! 😁

No,  I  won't, because I'm gonna take 'em all with me.

[DvdRiet]

22 minutes ago, lapis said:

No,  I  won't, because I'm gonna take 'em all with me.

 

😁

[fireant]

2 hours ago, lapis said:

No,  I  won't, because I'm gonna take 'em all with me.

 

Think of the fun you'll provide furture archeologist-I might sound sarcastic but I am not. I am a geek who enjoys the tv series about digs.

[lapis]

Crass! I hadn't thought of that. But what I also watch (maybe the most) on TV is seeing what 3000-year-old cemetery did-ups reveal as to jewelery, vases and kiddlies' toys. Next best = Medical Detectives....

[A Smug Dill]

On 12/15/2021 at 9:23 PM, A Smug Dill said:

Here's a part, not all, of my stockpile of new/unopened bottles of ink, as of December 2021 (and I trust no more is coming in the remainder of the year):

 

And now I have not just one, but two, new bottles of Pilot Iroshizuku Sui-gyoku ink. My wife's family had everyone populate a shared spreadsheet of what we want to receive as Christmas presents, to ease the burden of shopping for appropriate gifts and minimise wasting money of what is unwanted. Personally I'd have preferred a no-gifts-exchanged policy for Christmas, but I still had to play along, and so I put on the list a bottle of Sui-gyoku, on account of my not having any of the newly released ink yet, the first shipment was due to arrive at Australian stockists in December (so easier for my in-laws to source, even though I myself am happy with ordering from overseas retailers), and to limit whoever's spend. The entry was claimed by my sister-in-law within a day, so it was to my surprise that my mother-in-law gave me a bottle as well at today's family Christmas thing.

 

Not to sound ungrateful, but had I known that my mother-in-law would decide to top up her present to me (a replacement LED desk lamp that I'd already ordered for myself from Amazon, for which she then repaid me, since she didn't agree giving me a surplus toner cartridge she had in the house that fit my printer is a proper and adequate Christmas gift), I'd probably have asked for a bottle of Tsukushi instead while stockists still have them to sell in spite of the colour having been discontinued by Pilot.

 

So, let's hope I actually like the new Iroshizuku colour!

[A Smug Dill]

On 12/15/2021 at 9:47 PM, DvdRiet said:

A thousand years from now you will still be trying to empty those bottles! 

 

Dang, that was a chore rearranging the boxes of stockpiled/surplus inks into five cardboard shipping cartons and labelling them (by hand, on masking tape) today. Took me the better part of an hour! At one point I though I was missing one unopened bottle of ink, and my first thought was, ”Too hard, not going to turn everything upside down to look for it, I'm sure I won't miss it.”

 

I think that's indicative of bigger problems, both physical (in terms of storage space taken up, and practical difficulty to pinpoint where something is for retrieval) and psychological (hoarding past the point of caring).

 

[AmandaW]

4 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

I think that's indicative of bigger problems, both physical (in terms of storage space taken up, and practical difficulty to pinpoint where something is for retrieval) and psychological (hoarding past the point of caring).

 

One more for that list: need to use more ink.

 

It's good for you. That's why you have it.

[como]

I wouldn’t stockpile anything. It’s like missing a bus - there will always be another bus coming soon.

[AmandaW]

27 minutes ago, como said:

I wouldn’t stockpile anything.

 

I thought that until I saw what Iroshizuku Tsukushi did for my cranky 'quartz pink' Sailor Shikiori Yozakura. Weird colour. I tried so many inks in that pen, they looked (<--green puky face) and/or were so dry I didn't want to use it and/or so pale I couldn't read what I had written.

 

Then came Tsukushi: just enough pink under that brown to look great and wet/lubricated enough to write like a pen should and dark enough out of the fine nib to be worth having made the effort. Transformation. Love the thing. Then they deleted the ink.

 

Yeah, I ordered two backup bottles. I should have made that three. Or more. Depends how long I expect to live...

 

[PithyProlix]

54 minutes ago, como said:

I wouldn’t stockpile anything. It’s like missing a bus - there will always be another bus coming soon.

 

But will the next bus have a color as nice as this one does? Or will its lubrication system work as well? Or will it 'flow' along the road as quickly? Or will it be as resistant to rain or am I more likely to get soaked?

[A Smug Dill]

54 minutes ago, como said:

there will always be another bus coming soon.

 

The next bus, operated by private enterprise, may demand fourfold the fare, in the absence of government regulation, regardless of how closely, how quickly, and how comfortably it can also get you from A to B.

 

[fireant]

You what I really love about this thread and the unobtanium thread is that I am learning about so many different inks. I like ready why people do or do not love an ink and their experiences with it.

 

Thank you all.