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John

I'm not at home so I can't count, but I'd say about the same.

Only 11, although that is more than the number of pens I have!

14 of which 4 blacks (and in addition I MUST get a polar black)

68

I only have two...c'mon, gimme some of youse guys's.

I'd estimate around 300 and growing. I need to cull some of the bottom feeders!!!!!

You're not going to make me count then, I woun't....
The last time i checked I had more that 15 blues. And i don't even like blue ink. Or at least I used to not like blue ink.

I'm going to get a cup of tea now. See what you did!

Joi (who will be inventorying her ink as soon as the headache goes away!

I won't count them today... You are making me very afraid.
There are probably more inks than there are pens.

A bottle of NOS Skrip Blue-Black arrived today, with the
little well in the side of the bottle...

12.00

somewhere around 50...I think.

15, three of which (Pelikan Red, PR Tanzanite and PR Sherwood Green) I have vowed to never buy again. (25 if we're including duplicates.) Plan to pick up three new bottles (Diamine Claret, Diamine Emerald Green and J. Herbin Violette Pensee) soon.

OMG!

40

10
+ 4 samples (although I now own a full bottle of one of the colors)
+ 1 mini Sheaffer sample bottle
+ 1 bottle of dip pen ink that came with a glass dip pen

36 and counting.

Aaarrgghhh! 125 bottles of ink. (Some are multiples bought on sale when the brand or color went out of production, e.g., rotring bottled inks, pre-slovenian Skrip.) Too much, too much, too much!

7, but the Levenger's is almost empty and the others are at least 1/4 empty.

6 and 2 of them are over 30 years old!
PMS

9 and 3 boxes of cartridges floating around.

I'm not counting, but more than 100. All of the standard Noodler's except a couple, and all the PR's except a couple. I don't have a bottle of Noodler's I regret buying, and only a couple of PR's do I regret. I've got about half the Diamine's, and about half of those I regret. One Herbin and one regret.

Last night this woman was over here and, damn, I thought I had the ink kind of covered up so she couldn't see it, but damn if she didn't go up under my writing table to reach for something and damn if she didn't see it, and damn if I wasn't busted cold with all that ink. She wanted to know why I had all that ink. I didn't have much of an explanation. I was busted. What could I say? She definitely thought it was weird.

Thing is, she didn't see but about half of it.

INK COLLECTION:
Conway Stewart Turquoise Blue

Binder Blurple (Faux Tanzanite) 50% Waterman Fla Blue/ 50% Waterman Purple

De Atramentis Kaffee Coffee Scented Brown

De Atramentis Schokolade Chocolate Scented Brown

De Atramentis Vanilletinte Vanilla Scented Brown

Levangers Cobalt Blue

Mont Blanc Love Letter Rose Scent Red

Mont Blanc Seasons Greetings Holiday Scent Brown (2 Bottles)

Noodlers Eternal Black

Noodlers Burgundy Red

Noodlers Legal Lapis Blue (2 Bottles)

Noodlers Turquoise Blue

Noodlers Tiananmen Red

Parker Penman Emerald Green

Parker Penman Mocha Brown

Parker Penman Sapphire Blue (12 Bottles)

Pelikan 4001 Turquoise Blue

Private Reserve 2004 DC Supershow Blue

Private Reserve American Blue

Private Reserve Blue Suede

Private Reserve Black Magic Blue

Private Reserve Black Cherry Brown

Private Reserve Candy Apple Red

Private Reserve Chocolat Brown

Private Reserve Plum

Private Reserve Purple Haze

Private Reserve Sherwood Green

Sheaffer Skrip Black

Sheaffer Skrip Purple

Waterman Caribbean Blue

Waterman Florida Blue

Waterman Havana Brown

Waterman Purple



46 Bottles of Ink

33 Different Colors

Busted? It's not like you were doing anything wrong. Why not show her the rest of the ink and tell her about your hobby? She may then think it is hyper weird instead of just weird... until you write her a nice letter or card with one of those inks.

Well, that woman may have thought your ink collection was odd, but it looks like I am the weird one around here. I only have four bottles of ink right now - Noodler's Legal Lapis and Luxury Blue, Mont Blanc Blue-Black and Waterman South Seas Blue.

1, Noodlers BP Black

Call me a minimalist I guess.
I would like to pick up Antietum, and a nice brown but it can wait.

Around 90 but nearly half are samples. No one will ever call me a minimalist!

30ish.

About 100 bottles, over 60 sample vials, and 20 or so packs of cartridges. The first step is admitting that you have a problem...

Around 30.

Pakmanpony - you seem to have a few too many bottles of Sapphire, I think you need to share, please send half to England. Thank you.

In a serious tone, how do you like the Mocha Brown and have you tried the Ruby?

Cheers.

22. Though one is a bottle of Superchrome that an eBay seller just tossed in with a pen, so really it's 21 usable inks.


Dave


Edit: I missed one that wasn't in the cigar chest, so I've corrected the numbers.

Only six, but cut me a break, I got my first non-cartridge pen in June. But I must have 150-200 cartridges around here. Didn't get into bottle fillers until I got my first piston pen, a Lamy 2000. Loved it, so I bought a Pelikan m605, loved it, so am about to buy a Pelikan m805. And thus my ink collection grows...

Not at home, so can't count. Adding up the ones I can remember (I'm sure there are more), I reckon 31 colours in bottles, plus a few doubles, and 7 colours in carts of various shapes.

I've gone from being the guy who hates blue ink, to blue being the most represented, followed by browns, purples and blacks.

Probably around 60 bottles... and dozens and dozens of packs of cartridges!

53!

I have been on an eBay buying spree and loaded up on some vintage inks. So far, all have been clear, not moldy, and work well. My favorite of the vintage inks is Skrip washable purple. It is a great color with great flow.

I am using Superchrome in a Hero pen now. It works well, looks nice, and if it destroys the pen I'm only out a couple of bucks.

Len

29.

Only 21!!! (I need to buy more ink!)

Scott.

Thirty-eight, in bottles. We won't talk about the cartridges, okay?

8, but I've only been buying since December so just give me some time!

I thought I might strike a nerve!

Cowdad, you have made my day ....... and pmsalty, '6 and 2 of them are over 30 years old' .......

That '30 years old' has got to be the saddest thing I've ever heard

Pens are expensive, inks are cheap[er]. Ergo, buy lots of ink. [am I right, or am I right?]

John

1. Aurora Black (2 bottles)
2. Noodler's Bulletproof Black
3. Noodler's Polar Black
4. Noodler's Hunter Green
5. Noodler's Zhivago
6. Noodler's Whiteness of the Whale
7. Noodler's Walnut
8. Waterman Black
9. Waterman Green
10. Waterman Havana
11. Private Reserve Velvet Black
12. Private Reserve Sherwood Green
13. Bottle that used to be PR Grey Flannel but now is a mix with a little Sherwood Green
14. J. Herbin Lie de Thé

I guess that comes to 14, only counts fountain pen inks. I have a bunch of drawing and drafting inks too.

11 University of Pittsburgh has bottles of Sheaffer and Parker ink in their bookstores. I'm working there temporarily this week and bought a bottle of Sheaffer Blue-Black today. I was working at the time so i didn't get to look at the pens they had closely. I have a feeling I will be buying more before I'm done with the job.

Is Parker Quink Blue or Blue-Black any good? They also have almost all colors of Sheaffer Ink.

And to list my inks:

1. Sheaffer Skrip Blue-Black
2. Sheaffer Skrip Gold (2 bottles)
3. Noodler's Aircorp Blue-Black
4. Noodler's Green Marine
5. Noodler's Red-Black
6. PR Fiesta Red
7. Mont Blanc Bordeaux
8. Waterman Florida Blue
9. Waterman Black
10. Parker Quink Black

I have samples of Noodler's Nightshade, Apache Sunset, Green Marine, and Walnut
I also have a Sheaffer mini bottle (Sheaffer sample) of old Kings Gold.

I don't like yellow ink. The 2 bottles of yellow I bought for $3 each thinking I could use it for mixing. The Kings Gold was given to me by a professor.

Wow, some folks have a lot of ink! Have any of you with large collections ever considered collaborating to produce an FPN Ink Sampler book? I'll bet Greg Clark's discontinued reference work will be sorely missed.

PelikanPenman

I have never tried the Ruby but the Mocha is a nice ink. I've used two bottles of Sapphire so far and have my third one open, I'm just hoping I can make the rest of it last for the rest of my lifetime! I picked up a dozen bottles from a vendor in Hong Kong (ictop) two years ago (6 for $150 and 6 for $102) and another 4 bottles last year from a fellow in Greece (kphil) for $65. I noticed that Sam at Pendemonium had a bottle for sale the other day. I love it, I use it every day in my Pelikan Sovereign Blue Stripe 400.

Can't wait to add 6 more bottles!!!

2 each - FPN Galileo Manuscript Brown
2 each - FPN van Gogh Starry Starry Blue
2 each - FPN Phenician Regal Purple

Only 5 bottles for me, but maybe 4 varieties of carts as well. I like buying ink, but I try to buy ink I've done research on and am reasonably sure I will use often. I probably use blue the most, although I've used 3 or 4 kinds recently between bottles and carts.

A recent job change has also meant I hardly use a pen at all during business hours

I did end up with some vintage Superchrome as well, but obviously we can't use that...

9.

I still think I have too many since I only use 2-3 at a time or so. Then again, I've limited myself to blacks, blue-blacks, and blues. How boring, I know!!

We won't talk about the army of Peartree pens ink sample bottles and FPN vials I have that surround my ink bottles.

I think I've backed down to about 20 different varieties. I'm trying to cut back, though. I'm more of a mainstay kind of guy. Kara's settled on Lamy/Montblanc Blue, and I think I'm in the process of duking it out between the Lamy/Montblanc, Pelikan Royal Blue, and Waterman Florida Blue for my mainstays. I'd love to see something like an American Blue that dries quickly enough for me to use it, but alas, I suffer from the plight of a ham-fisted southpaw. My hand covers so much real estate that the ink doesn't even stand a fighting chance of drying before introducing itself to my hand.

But back to the subject at hand...a few blues, a couple of browns, a couple of blacks and greens, and a red or two thrown in for good measure. I don't think I have anything that's really out there as far as color goes. Levenger Fireball is about as loud and mouthy as I get when it comes to ink.

That's a really cool ink color, BTW.

> 400.....and still don't know which ink to put in a pen next

Cheers

Michael

I've found that the more ink I accumulate, the harder it is to choose.

25 and growing - you always need to find the "perfect" ink right?

It's not like I was doing anything wrong? I didn't say "wrong". I said "weird". And the plain fact is that most people out there in the world think it's weird for somebody to have over 50 bottles of ink hidden under his desk. She didn't see the other 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 that I have in this cabinet.

But yeah, she thought it was weird. She had this puzzled look on her face, and asked me, "Why do you have all this ink?" Damn, what could I say. I sure wasn't gonna say, "That ain't even half of it. Come in here and lemme show you the rest."

This was only the second time she's been over at my house. After some woman knows you for awhile--or after she knows me for awhile, she knows I'm a little weird, and finding 100+ bottles of ink or something like that around here is no big deal. But I haven't known this one for long at all.

Now I've got to find some place to hide that ink that's in the cabinet, because I know she's probably gonna open that cabinet sometime just to see what's in there.

And Pendragon, you need to get some more ink. The inks you have are hardly worth mentioning. I'll recommend 5 more:

Noodler's Black
Noodler's Blue-Black
PR American Blue
PR Sherwood
Noodler's Ottoman Rose

You can't go wrong with those.

Just 2. Sheafer Skrip blue and Waterman Blue-black. I do not want to spend any money on pens or inks at the moment.