Roughly, How Long Does A 50Ml Bottle Last?

[thygreyt]

I write a bit... 200 pages a month, more or less.

I refill my pens every 3 days. A bottle lasts a while... I just don't keep to a single color. If I did, 3-5 months per bottle.

[Monbla]

There's no real standard for how long a bottle of x amt. will last. To many factors , nib size, paper ink type etc. Just buy a bottle of what you want , use it and find out what works for you.

[Sasha Royale]

Generally, I don't use cotton string. I use braided, nylon-polyester string. It has a test strength of 60 kilograms. I buy it in 300 foot (91 meter) spools. I have no idea how much you write, or the flow rate comes of your pen.

 

That said, I used a fountain pen through four years of undergraduate studies, forty-five years ago. I took classroom notes and copied / edited the notes each evening. A two-ounce bottle of Parker Quink endured for one semester (18 weeks). Diamine black is a good "working" ink. The Pelikan ink is prettier. However, you are not writing love letters. Your writing will be SCHOOL NOTES , that you will read yourself.

 

Best of luck in your studies.

[mariom]

It all depends on how many 50ml bottles you have. If you have enough different bottles of ink to choose from, any particular 50ml bottle could last many, many years. This makes even the most expensive ink very economical and an easily justified purchase.

 

That's my theory, at least.

[pepsiplease69]

@OP I'd say if you enjoy the ink, buy the bottle and use it freely.

 

Life's too short to hold off on ink that you enjoy, lest you have regrets later.

 

I do have an internal moral compass which prevents me from buying obscenely expensive ink. Just the other day I was looking at an ink bottle by Louis Vuitton. The thing cost $52. I'll never buy an ink like that.

 

Caran dAche also charge over $40 for their bottle of ink which definitely a no-go for me.

 

By the same token, if I'm sufficiently crazy about an ink I may cross that $40 line. Case and point: Bungubox Blue Black. Gorgeous ink costs over $40. But I write with it almost everyday and so I have no regrets.

[Tas]

 

Indeed.

I didn't confine to only one ink colour, but probably wrote with this one bottle like 80% of the time.

Took me a little over a year to empty the bottle.

Writing with a 1.1 and a 1.5 stub.

Writing more than your 10-15 pages.

 

So, if you're going for an F of XF nib, writing only 10-15 pages a week, no way you'll finish a 50ml bottle in a year!

 

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