Keeping A Chart Of Which Inks Are In Your Pens

[larachan]

Filemaker database.

Can you share your Filemaker file? would love to use this.

[sansenri]

great question, I also have wondered what other do.

As much as the PC solution sound interesting it will tell you the ink but will not show it properly...

I use the simple notebook method, which however is nice, because I can go back and compare inks vs the the new one I am using.

Some examples

 

 

 

 

 

[A Smug Dill]

 

I also keep an indexed log book to track on which date I filled which pen with which ink (and in effect provide a short writing sample using that pen-and-ink combination), to see if certain pens are allowing ink to evaporate and dry out too quickly when capped and unused.

[TSherbs]

Dill, that is amazing recordkeeping.

[wvbeetlebug]

Theres actually such a thing as an ink journal:

https://www.inkjournal.com/collections/featured/products/inkjournal-black-notebook-for-pen-collectors

 

My personal method is to add a line or two of writing to various types of paper so I have a future reference of how that ink and nib wrote on that paper. I mark down the name of the ink, the pen used, and the nib, as well as whether its a recent fill or ink thats been sitting in a pen for a few days. This also allows me to see how the inks fare over time in terms of fading or color shift. Not a single dedicated ink journal, but rather a few different notebooks dedicated to scribbles and ink testing:

a Rhodia dot pad, a Fabriano Bioprima notebook, a Tomoe River notebook, and a crappy paper notebook. I also use these scribbles to do water resistance tests on well-dried ink.

 

ETA: I also use Col-O-Ring cards for ink tests, but it does not give as accurate a representation of what the inks look like on the papers I normally use. Its more like art paper vs coated fountain-pen-friendly paper. Hence I prefer to reference my ink testing notebooks.

 

I use the printables provided by InkJournal to keep up with my currently inked pens. I like that I can print them out on my own paper and put them in my Circa notebook.

[silverlifter]

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