How Many Pens Do You Keep Inked At One Time?

[senzen]

17, each with a different colour, I write ideas in phrases or small paragraphs in different colours to tell them apart.

[martinbir]

Six at the moment, fairly typical for me.

 

Lamy 2000 + Diamine Eau de Nil

Lamy Safari + Diamine Classic Red

Pelikan M200 + Iroshizuku Tsuki-Yo

Montblanc 146 + Diamine Ancient Copper

Parker Junior (UK1960s) + Quink Blue Black

Lamy Studio + Diamine Asa Blue

 

The first two are more or less permanent features with the others rotating.

[peterg]

Oh dear.....23. Mostly they are pens I've recently resaced or new arrivals:

 

Summit S125 & 130; John Bull & a no name

2 x Parker Ladies Duofolds (soon to be three when I resac one with an 18 ct. nib)

No name (possibly Mentmore) woodgrain

5 Croxley's of varying type

Conways:

The Seal woodgrain; Le Tigre The Mascot; Esterbrook Relief 2L; and a 475

6 x Uniques and a

Mabie Todd woodgrain

 

About five are pens that dried up and have had water added.

[drv1913]

I currently have 15 pens inked with different colors. As I work through samples and impulse purchases, I will always still have several pens inked with my core colors but different nibs.

[iveyman]

All 23 pens that I own are inked and used daily to write at least one line with each pen.

[The Blue Knight]

1 or 2 maybe 3. I've cut my collection down to 11 from 20 something I'd rather enjoy that 1 pen rather then have many inked up. I'm not one who use multiple colours in a day.

[bsenn]

Around 15. A desk pen at work and a desk pen on the kitchen counter, one pen with red ink on my work desk and one with red ink in my portfolio, a cheap shiny metal Italian pen in my workshop, the rest a rotating variety always with one or two OBs, one or two Fs or XFs, and anything in between. Heavy on Parker and Sheaffer, heavy on vintage (whatever that means), but really anything goes.

 

This does not count Pilot Petits or Sheaffer school pens - Those are lying about and in various coat pockets. (One Petit was stuck under the car seat for the winter, when it finally came out this spring it wrote on the first stroke)

 

Just don't ask how many drafting pencils I have leaded at any given moment

 

Brian

[Diderot]

19

Coincidentally, exactly the same amount of inks that I have.

 

Ian

 

 

Oh dear.....23. Mostly they are pens I've recently resaced or new arrivals:

 

About five are pens that dried up and have had water added.

 

 

I currently have 15 pens inked with different colors. As I work through samples and impulse purchases, I will always still have several pens inked with my core colors but different nibs.

 

 

:o

 

Respect to you all.

 

Just two for me.

[Bklyn]

17, each with a different colour, I write ideas in phrases or small paragraphs in different colours to tell them apart.

Wow!!!!!!!!!!

 

That is awesome.

 

I keep 4 inked in different colors and I try to use them to create accents and make things stand out.

[fibug]

I currently have three inked. One (Conklin with italic nib), with Delamere Green ink, for signatures. One for journaling (Lamy Safari). One (Esterbrook) sits on my desk for day-to-day writing.

[haruka337]

At present time, I only have "workhorse" pens inked up and at work (no time for letters, scribbles or ink swatching right now ):

Pilot Decimo (M) Aurora Black
I was initially disappointed with Aurora black (some subtle shading I was not expecting), but I'm warming up to it now.

Pilot Prera (F) J. Herbin Rouille D'Ancre
Switched out Diamine Poppy Red for this washed-out rusty mauve color--not likin' it.

Platinum Balance (F) Platinum Blue
It's blue.

Lamy Vista (1.5) Sailor Jentle Souten
Along with Tokiwa-matsu and Miruai, it's one of the more underrated inks of Sailor's "Color of Four Seasons" line. Yama-dori, Oku-yama--STEP ASIDE!

TWSBI 580 Diamond (F) Iroshizuku Syo-ro
Changes color as it dries running from a blue leaning teal to an evergreen color. Lovely color, not my favorite of the line, but it was my first bottled ink.

Edited June 10, 2015 by haruka337

[delano]

I don't keep a set number of pens inked. I'm just a bit lazy sometimes.

 

Right now I have 8 pens that need attention, plus two I'm using at the moment.

[tmenyc]

4-5...and always in my signature. One of them, the Touchdown, is currently loose somewhere on the floor of my car (I hope...), not to be seen before Saturday.

 

Tim

[ethernautrix]

Around ten these days.

[nibbling]

Too many, in my opinion. Around 8 right now.

[DrDebG]

I have 7 inked right now:

 

Lamy Safari fine nib = Montegrappa Bordeaux

Lamy Al-Star 1.1 stub = Lamy CopperOrange

Lamy Studio fine gold nib = DeAtramentis Lily of the Valley (meh!)

Pilot Vanishing Point med nib = J. Herbin Bleu Pervenche

Faber Castell Loom fine nib = Pilot Iroshizuku Asa Gao

Delta Horsepower fusion stub = Caran d'Ache Idyliic Blue

Delta Capri fusion broad nib = Lamy Blue

 

I have a bad habit of only filling each partially. I use them for one week, then I empty any excess (which is generally none), clean them all and fill with another ink. I am always rotating different inks through each of the pens so that I can determine which inks work best with which pen.

 

I recently discovered that my Caran d'Ache Idyllic Blue works stunning well in my Delta fusion stub nib, but is rather mediocre in my Pilot Vanishing Point medium nib. And Montegrappa Bordeaux works wonderfully well in my Lamy Safari fine point, but very poorly in my Faber Castell Loom.

[de_pen_dent]

9. Cos that's how many inserts i have in my modified cigar box that i use as my "in rotation" pen case.

 

When the last of the 9th is dry, it is time for 9 more. Speaking of which - i am currently on my last remaining pen of the rotation, a Delta Skeleton with Cross Royal Blue ink.

[TSherbs]

All 23 pens that I own are inked and used daily to write at least one line with each pen.

love this!

[TSherbs]

5-10 for me

[BillPorter]

Seven of them right now, though I think this is too many.

 

1) A no-name Chinese pen ($1.25 with shipping) with Noodler's Black for signatures, addressing envelopes, etc.

2) A Jinhao 599 (orange) with Diamine Red Dragon

3) A Jinhao X450 with Noodler's Liberty's Elysium

4) A Pilot Plumix with Pilot Sepia

5) A Platinum 3776 Chartres Blue with Iroshizuku Kon-Peki

6) Waterman Expert with Diamine Sherwood Green

7) Waterman Phileas with J. Herbin Eclat de Saphir