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  1. 1. How many inks do you currently have?


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So - how many inks do YOU have? Bottles, samples, packs of cartridge, they all count.

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Portland, OR

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Right now I have nine but it's taken a lifetime of trying one ink after another to whittle it down to that number. If the question had been how many have you ever had it would indeed be well over 200. I'm always trying to pare down to an essential few and if today a fellow pen enthusiast walked throuh the door and liked my ink selection there are a couple I could easily give up, getting it down to seven.

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50-99 for me. On the lower end of that, but that's still a lot of ink considering I haven't been into FPs that long.

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Oh! With samples, then the next bracket from what I voted (20-49). Sans samples, I have nearly 40. Doesn't seem like it (whaddya know!).

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I thought no way I had over 100 bottles of ink. Then I started looking around on my desk, on the nearby shelf with misc. office supplies, and then in the cabinet where I have 3 shelves of ink . . . . Well, if the total's over 100, it's at least not much over 100. I also realized that I still have ink that I bought back in the 80s. (I have scads of cartridges as well.) I think I need to write more.

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Holy s . . .! 20 - 100 bottles? Wow!

 

I believe that's more ink than you could possibly use for the rest of your life, unless you're doing artwork or calligraphy with a Pilot Parallel 6.0 mm nib. I have one of those; it's fun to practice with, but I still think it would take me a month to go through even 1 bottle of ink. I got up to about 10 bottles of ink; this made me uncomfortable so I donated a few to my son's middle school art teacher. She was very appreciative.

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Interesting poll. I got around 90 so yeah.

 

As I guessed, the results formed a nice bell curve.

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Holy s . . .! 20 - 100 bottles? Wow!

 

I believe that's more ink than you could possibly use for the rest of your life, unless you're doing artwork or calligraphy with a Pilot Parallel 6.0 mm nib. I have one of those; it's fun to practice with, but I still think it would take me a month to go through even 1 bottle of ink. I got up to about 10 bottles of ink; this made me uncomfortable so I donated a few to my son's middle school art teacher. She was very appreciative.

I go through a serious amount of ink on my own, even in the everyday course of things. When I'm doing a lot of writing, I really tear through a bottle. I don't have a goal of using everything up before I die, but assuming I was to stop buying ink, I might very well make it through most of my stash. Maybe all of it; it just depends. I don't keep ink that I would never use.

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100-199 for me. But that's actually a bit of misnomer, since I didn't count duplicates. For bottles alone, with duplicates, it's about 100.

I'm worried that if I get too many more samples, I will need to get another sample tray (I currently have 4, and reorganized them a few months ago so that they're sorted by color -- i.e., all the blues and blue-black samples are in one, etc.). Which means I will need to get another box to put the trays in. And they didn't have too many of the ones I liked the last time I was in IKEA....

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I voted 200+ but I need to count.

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I voted 200+ but I need to count.

 

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Jim Couch

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If I have 50 bottles of Parker Penman Sapphire, 50 bottles of Mont Blanc Racing Green, 50 bottles of Mont Blanc Ghandi, and 50 bottles of 50 bottles of Mont Blanc Hitchcock, do I vote 2-5, or over 200? This is a hypothetical question.

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If I have 50 bottles of Parker Penman Sapphire, 50 bottles of Mont Blanc Racing Green, 50 bottles of Mont Blanc Ghandi, and 50 bottles of 50 bottles of Mont Blanc Hitchcock, do I vote 2-5, or over 200? This is a hypothetical question.

 

To avoid such ambiguity, kindly send me 49 bottles of each, then you can vote 2-5 without any doubt. :D

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