How Many Pens Do You Keep Inked At One Time?

[Bookman]

Currently 7, down from 9 last week.

[praxim]

Currently 7, up from 3 last week,

and more than I said was my range.

 

My excuse is keenness to try a bunch of recent arrivals, where sadly the Australian seller demonstrates the least quality of work. I can improve those fairly readily so will keep those two rather than returning them. That is by the by to this thread anyway, and I still have more waiting their first turn so my restraint level is currently seven.

[LuckyKate]

 

4 inked right now

Home-2

2 pens Nakaya and a Franklin Christoph 66--light thick barreled tapered pens are super comfortable for me.

 

Work-

Lamy Safari Violet with PR DC purple ink

Twsbi mini Kobe 36

[mljones99]

One

[mcorrea]

5 today. 3 Pelikans (M600 cursive Italic, M600 flex fine and 205 stub) all with Pelikan Edelstein Jade (my ink for this week for bullet journalling). One kaweco skyline sport and a Waterman Kultur with Waterman Bleu Serenite.

 

Matias

[jar]

Up to three again and all still the same ink.

[thygreyt]

5... but i would like to reduce it... but i need, NEED them all... lol

 

1) Ivanhoe: great pen, amazing nib... always inked on some sort of blue.

2) MB 145: love the writing despite the "stiff" nib.. inked on Meisterstuck grey ink. (permanent) so it has to stay inked for docs, and signing, etc.

3) GVFC Classic: currently on take sumi. I need black ink in my life.

4) pilot metro on wild strawberries (diamine). I need red ink and the fine nib for when im working numbers.

5) Noodlers creeper on MB permanent blue: again, for signing, writing checks, and so on.

 

I journal on 1-3 pens, and 4-5 are mostly for work only. All 5 are work pens, 1-3 are also personal use.

[sexauerw]

34 at the moment. Trying out new pen/ink combinations. I would really prefer to keep it down to 10-12, but I always seem to find reasons to fill more.

 

The Noodler's Black (see #6) was from an old bottle that I didn't stir/shake sufficiently. It shouldn't be that pale.

The Noodler's Nile Ebony (#17) is quite a nice black ink, although no longer available. It was a Swisher special. It only looks light because the pen has an EF nib an writes a very thin line.

#18 & #19 look light for the same reason

 

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[mcshiny]

Ten, because I like to colour code my notes and my bullet journal.

 

1) Lamy Safari (F), lamy cartridge Orange

2) Domain Lion 305, blackstone Daintree Green

3) Domain Lion 305, toucan Umber

4) Domain Lion 305, mystery brown (sucked it out of a mistakenly purchased budget cartridge and transferred to reservoir because I was bored)

5) Hero 358, standard Hero blue cartridge

6) Jinhao 599, toucan Turquoise

7) Jinhao 599, blackstone Black Stump

8) Dollar 717i, toucan Royal Blue (this is my new favourite pen, a beautifully clean fine line)

9) Hero 616, toucan umber:turquoise 1:4 blend (dark bluey green)

10) Hero 616, toucan umber:crimson 1:2 blend (maroon)

 

The Hero 616's I did the blends to match the barrels, because why not?

[tjchervy]

I'm a mess, mathematically. Right now I have 5 inked, my pen tray holds four. I have 4 ink colors, but I just bought three more. I have 5 pens inked, 6 pens needing repairs, and I'm waiting on 5 pens in the mail.

 

Oh how to handle the permutations.

[mivox]

Still at three here, at the moment.

 

But I have a new pen in the mailbox waiting for me to get home (I already have plans for it) so that'll make 4.

 

And then my Townsend will be home from the doctor's tomorrow, so I'll have to test the nib grind with some kind of ink immediately, so that'll make 5.

 

And I have a nib for an out-of-commission pen in the mail somewhere on it's way to me, so briefly it will be 6. But I'm taking my awful little J. Herbin out of rotation as soon as it runs out of ink, so I'll level off at 5 for a while.

 

But then I'm going to be needing more new pens at some point... *sigh*

[Freddy]

 

Fred

Adios Amigos

[JordanN]

All of them (minus a couple of Preppies), meaning less than 20 fountain pens total. Personally, I don't see any point to having pens without ink in them, I just try to get around to using each of them frequently enough that the ink doesn't have a chance to clog up.

[Noihvo]

[wjeverly]

Currently 11 inked up:

I always have four pens inked with blue, black, red, and brown inks; use them for various specific purposes.

The rest are just for fun, some filled with the same four colors, others with more "for fun" colors - green, burgundy, etc.

[El Gordo]

Five, functional colors only

Vector - Noodler's black

Vector - Akkerman #10

Vector - De Atramentis Karminrot

Italix PE - 4001 Brilliant black (sort of going vintage, the bottle still carries W.Germany at the bottom

Italix PE - Herbin - Lierre Sauvage

[Freddy]

seventyseven

 

Fred

[888007888]

34 at the moment. Trying out new pen/ink combinations. I would really prefer to keep it down to 10-12, but I always seem to find reasons to fill more.

 

The Noodler's Black (see #6) was from an old bottle that I didn't stir/shake sufficiently. It shouldn't be that pale.

The Noodler's Nile Ebony (#17) is quite a nice black ink, although no longer available. It was a Swisher special. It only looks light because the pen has an EF nib an writes a very thin line.

#18 & #19 look light for the same reason

 

http://bulk-share.slickpic.com/album/share/M1MMzMwgMNzVmj/12910703.0/800/p/Pens_Inked_8-30-2016_Pg_1.jpg

 

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I am the same way. I think all 50 or so of my pens are inked. Great choice of paper. I use the Staples Arc notebooks at work.

[Runnin_Ute]

Right now it is 10.

In the past it has been as many as 18-20.

Esterbrook J

Parker 45 Flighter and 51 Special

TWSBI 580 and Eco

Pelikan M200 (2) and M150

Waterman Phileas

True Writer Silver Anniversary

[jar]

Fortunately back down to four. Still to many inked.