Got 10 Pens Inked And I Want To Ink More :(

[ethernautrix]

I try to limit inked pens to one. Hahaha. I gave up that impossible goal long ago.

 

So, two then. Nope. Three.

 

Jumped to eight, dammit.

 

Down to seven. Driven not so much by a rainbow of inks as negligible (to others) differences in the nibs. Plus clips and clipless..es.

 

Seems I would rotate through these seven pens the most, so... I'm trying this new thing of keeping the seven inked for (the rest of) May. Possibly June, too.

[Ciliegia]

I'm curious re. those of you that keep 15+ pens inked at a time.

 

I usually have 3 pens inked, and I still seem to experience some hard starts.

 

At work I only use the pens for jotting notes in meetings (maybe an hour a day, two at most as the rest of the time I'm working at my desk on my laptop).

 

At home in the evenings / weekends I write a daily journal - maybe 5-6 pages of an A5 journal. One entry = one colour ink.

 

Also at home in the evening / weekends I'm writing a novel - again, maybe 5-10 pages of an A5 journal. Again, one day's writing = 1 ink colour, so that I can quickly look back and see how many words/pages I wrote on any given day.

 

That's all the handwriting I do. If I had more than 3 pens inked, days would pass before I had an opportunity to use them, and I'd worry about the ink drying (as I have quite a few of those aforementioned hard starts).

 

Am I unusual in experiencing hard starts when a pen hasn't been used for a few days?

[Honeybadgers]

apart from the 6 I have inked for school and work (I pick 4 colors for a season for each school quarter and alternate between two each day in my notebook so I can easily tell apart each day from the other, one with diamine registrars for lab notebooks, and one for work) I usually have 3-5 at home as well.

 

If I have more than 5 though, or if any have been inked for more than two or three weeks without being use regularly (the moonman C1 on my desk is used all the time, it just holds a gallon of ink so it doesn't get cleaned much,) they get cleaned. Don't care much about wasting ink when I've got over 200 bottles.

Edited August 4, 2019 by Honeybadgers

[ENewton]

I used to keep eight or nine pens inked at once but realized that, out of concern for having pens dry out, I was choosing a pen to use not for its appropriateness to the project but expressly to exercise it. In fact, I spent a certain amount of time each day deliberately writing, no matter what words, with each of my pens just so as to keep the pens in action. My cat alerted me to the silliness of this practice. "We could be on the couch, snuggling, and you're taking care of your pens instead!" he declared.

 

So for the past few years, I have usually had only one or two pens in use at a time.

[Bo Bo Olson]

A German rubber sponge cup....for licking stamps.... Antique ones can be found on US ebay....or order from the German post office....German overseas postage dirt cheap compared to stateside.

Dip and go.

One can put a 1/4 shot of water in a shot glass. But watering my stamp licker every three-four days works for me.

 

Real proud of my self...must have been 5-6 times in the last two weeks I'd not inked a pen.....Counting the pens in the velvet armband boxes I have my 19 pens inked.

 

Surprised me, the Osmia 76 EF steel Supra nib (maxi-semi-flex)that was laying in the one on top of my desk for the last few weeks, worked with out dipping.

Similar to this BCHR one but that one has the Osmia diamond in the finial.

First picture is not the best picture in the world but shows the Osmia Diamond. MB had it's snow flake. Soennecken it's round circle. Pelikan a pelican.

Edited August 4, 2019 by Bo Bo Olson

[OMASsimo]

Most of my pens don't dry out and write without hard starts even after weeks of hibernation. All my Osmias are like that, also all Pelikans and OMAS and most of my vintage Kawecos. Nevertheless, I don't like to have too many pens inked up. If I don't use a pen for a week or two, there is no use of having it inked.

[Chaos-incarnate]

I'm curious re. those of you that keep 15+ pens inked at a time.

 

I usually have 3 pens inked, and I still seem to experience some hard starts.

 

At work I only use the pens for jotting notes in meetings (maybe an hour a day, two at most as the rest of the time I'm working at my desk on my laptop).

 

At home in the evenings / weekends I write a daily journal - maybe 5-6 pages of an A5 journal. One entry = one colour ink.

 

Also at home in the evening / weekends I'm writing a novel - again, maybe 5-10 pages of an A5 journal. Again, one day's writing = 1 ink colour, so that I can quickly look back and see how many words/pages I wrote on any given day.

 

That's all the handwriting I do. If I had more than 3 pens inked, days would pass before I had an opportunity to use them, and I'd worry about the ink drying (as I have quite a few of those aforementioned hard starts).

 

Am I unusual in experiencing hard starts when a pen hasn't been used for a few days?

I work away and leave pens inked at work and at home for a week unused all the time, and rarely get hard starts. Some pens don't fly well so I have home pens, work pens and fly pens. Diamine Robert is the only hard starter I've experienced lately, I suspect because it's so concentrated. I have Lamys, a fake Lamy, FPRs various, Pilots and random pens across the range.

Edited August 8, 2019 by Chaos-incarnate

[Tas]

Unashamedly counted 37

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_pens_loaded_august_2019.jpeg

[Helen350]

The last four Lanbitou 3059s arrived yesterday. Now all 7 of them are inked and being put to use

with journaling, and completing the book I"m writing. I replaced the F-nibs, with M-nibs.

 

Lanbitou 3059 (Purple) - Ink: Lamy Dark Violet

Lanbitou 3059 (Black) Ink: Chesterfield Antique Yankee

Lanbitou 3059 (Green) Ink: Chesterfield Antique Shamrock

Lanbitou 3059 (White) Ink: deAtramentis Adular Blue

Lanbitou 3059 (Beige) Ink: Noodler's Walnut Brown

Lanbitou 3059 (Pink) Ink: Chesterfield Fire Opal

Lanbitou 3059 (Pale Blue) Ink: Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise

Wing Sung Vacuum Pen Ink: Diamine Syrah

Wing Sung 3008 Ink: Chesterfield Emerald Green

 

Just one shy of 10. I will be using these to complete the project I've started!

[bemon]

I keep 2-4 inked at a time. After selling over 60 bottles of ink I'm left with only 6 left. Of those I only use 4 so I decided to keep my 4 EDC pens inked up with my 4 mainstay inks.

 

Pro Gear Realo M - KWZ Azure #4

Pilot Vanishing Point B - Blackstone Barrier Reef Blue

Lamy 2000 M - Sailor Shikiori Yonaga

GVFC Classic M - Iroshizuku Shin Kai

 

The L2K znd the PVP have been inked up for 5 years straight.

 

 

Edited August 8, 2019 by bemon

[dms525]

 

 

 

At the moment, I have 24 pens inked. That's fairly typical for me. The seven pens in the second photo were all used to write the text in the first photo.

 

I keep a table of my inked pens in Evernote. The main purpose is to keep track of when I inked each pen and what ink is in each. I also keep comments as to how I like that ink in that pen and ideas about other inks that I might want to try in it.

 

The only objective problem I can see having too many pens inked is if any are not used and dry out. I try to use all my inked pens at least weekly, if only to write a line or two.

 

David

[DrDebG]

 

Today, I have 16 pens inked today. This is typical of me. I have a FC 13 Penvelope that is open on my desk and I also have 2-3 that are in another small case. I guess I like variety.

 

I use at least half my inked pens each day, and I try to rotate through them within a 2 day period. It is pretty typical, then, that most of my pens will be ready for cleaning and refill within a couple of weeks.

[DilettanteG]

I had a problem with my pens drying out this summer, which is new to me. I decided to try and keep it down to five pens inks at once, and then my ink binge order arrived. Now, I'm back up to 19.

[Runnin_Ute]

Rarely more than about 12, or fewer than 8. Ten is most common. Usually four or five are Pelikans. Right now Pelikan 140, three M200'S, M400 White Tortoise. In addition are two Parker 51's (Demi Vac and Special), 45 Flighter and my Platinum 3776 Century Borgogne.