How Many Pens Do You Have Inked?

[thagbert]

12 is supposed to be my max. Thanks to job stress, I am up to 18. That's my story, and I'm telling it how I want to hear it.

When all else fails, ink up another pen!

[kemuri]

In over 12 pens of my small collection I keep 5 inked.

I keep two for my job, two for home desk and another in my shirt poket.

Every week I try to rotate them... but I always "fall in love" with the most recently acquired! So this is the one I keep with me.


-kemuri

[ardgedee]

I try to stick to only four pens at a time...

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Even though most of these pens have been filled within the past day or two, I'll be emptying and cleaning most of them soon -- unlike my usual habit of going a couple weeks between picking pens and filling them. The Osmia's been a good pen to me in the past, but it's clearly not happy with the Chesterfield Obsidian, so I'll be casting around for a better option. And the Serwex simply has too fine a point for the J.Herbin Lie de Thé -- the ink deserves to flow from a fatter nib, and the Serwex needs a richer ink.

Likewise, I had for some reason assumed Noodler's Zhivago would be thinner and greener -- it might do better in the Serwex, for example, and the Jinhao could do with something like the Lie de Thé. I don't really need three pens with slightly different black inks in them anyway.

The watery Lamy Turquoise in the Dilli is for sketching in non-repro blue. An old habit and preference formed in my graphics and prepress days. Previously I was using a Noodler's pen for this task, but the water kept evaporating out and leaving me with full-strength Turquoise in the pen. Meanwhile, the metal ring at the end of the section was developing rust... Hopefully the Dilli will do a better job of keeping the wet stuff in.

[kaisnowbird]

I try to stick to three pens at any given time that meet ALL of the following criteria:
- one broad/stub/italic nib, two medium/fine/EF nibs;
- at least one gold nib pen that's not cheap (>$100) and at least one inexpensive pen (<$100) too;
- one with black-ish ink, one with blue-ish ink, one less "official" colour ink;
- at least one slim/pocket size pen; and
- the three pens are not of the same colour (eg. black) or brand.

At the moment, the three inked ones are:
1. Parker Duofold Mini (modern) with Green Check, fine nib, green mixed ink (MB Jonathan Swift with a drop of PR Ebony Green).
2. Pilot Metropolitan black zigzag, medium nib, J.Herbin Perle Noire.
3. Lamy Safari blue, 1.1mm, mixed blue black ink (Quink blue + Quink black).

On average, the three-pen carry is renewed every week. Any unfinished ink gets extracted, mixed sometimes, and put into one of the next trio.

[tandaina]

I've got six inked. But since my Nakaya arrived I haven't actually USED any of the others so I suppose I should clean them out and put them up, huh?

[79spitfire]

2! a Cross ATX and a Vacuum-Fill (Sheaffer sub brand)

[I like mango pudding]

one pen per ink. or is it one ink per pen. That makes 5 for now.

[Sailor Kenshin]

The number is dropping again! O noz!

Just cleaned out (maybe for the last time!) my BSB Peli Jr., which now sports an innnnteressstinggg two-tone section effect; will clean out Iro Ku-Jaki from Hero 86 today.

Sooo, not counting stuff like Preppys and Petits, or my perennially inked check-writer and editor...

Red Lamy Nexx, 1.5, Diamine Ruby
Sailor Clear Candy, Diamine Misty Blue
Sailor xf Sapporo, Waterman BB (almost dry, next to flush)
Sailor mini-Sapporo Music, Noodler's Bad Kingfisher.
LE Pearl Al-Star, B, custom (ie: forgot what's mixed in there) brown that shades like crazy

[jde]

More than my usual 2:

• Edison Menlo (a friend's), Kinney ground .3mm CI, Pilot Blue
• Danitrio Cumlaude (small ver), P.Brown Stub, Nagasawa Nadda Brown
• Newton Slug, #3776 F, Sailor Epinard
• Edison Hurlaude, EF, Pilot Blue-Black
• Pilot MYU 701, F, Pilot Blue

[KrazyIvan]

The more I try to reduce the amount of inked pens I have, the more they multiply. 13 inked now.

[chad.trent]

I have only one inked right now. My Lamy 2000. I have a lot of other pens, but I just can't stop using this one.

Well, I guess technically I have two because I have a Pilot Varsity that I carry too.

[GardenWeasel]

I have 3...all Esties!!

[Chi Town]

I have 12 inked and here they are;


1) Black Eversharp w/ Flex nib - J. Herbin. Poussiere De Lune / This one is FOR SALE - it is freshly rebuilt! 70.00
2) BIG Old Ranga Pen, 6.2" Closed/7.5" Posted Green w/Brown swirls
Organic Studio Lithium (Red/Violet) Fine Nib.
3) Newton Pens - Buffalo Horn - Smooth Italic Nib - Iroshizuku - ina-ho (Brown)
4) Eversharp - Flex nib - Organic Studio Uranium
5) Franklin Christoph 1901 - Broad Italic - Organic Studio Neon
6) Newton Pens - Club Pen - Broad Nib - iroshizuku - fuyu-gaki
7) Newton Pens - Taffy - Left Hand Oblique - Edelstein ink of the yr. Amber
175 yrs.
8) Pilot VP. - Med Nib - iroshizuku take-sumi
9) Edison Collier Antique Marble - Med nib - Private Reserve Cadillac Green
10) Parker 1st Yr. 51 - Med nib - Private Reserve Claret
11) Sheaffer Intrigue - Fine nib - Edelstein Amber ink of the yr. 175 yrs
12) Twsbi Mini Black - 1.1 Stub - Edelstein Jade

[tannie]

I tried to downsize, so I de-inked 2 pens.

So now only eh... 35... or 36...? which eh... means I acquired about ten fifteen pens since my last confession...

(I should count, right?)

[Mags]

I have a few inked pens...

my MB 146
a Kaweco
a Midi Visconti a Parker 51 M
a Conway Stewart Churchill 61/606
a 1.3 mm stub Minushkin nib Parker 51 and an Eclipse /Safety pen with a fine flex nib (toothy though).

Mags sent from my blackberry playbook using tapatalks

[auto winder]

I've got 9 pens inked at the moment.

[vdiantonio]

21 inked.

[kaisnowbird]

Three inked:
1. Newly arrived Homo Sapiens Midi (25th Anniversary), broad nib, Parker Quink Blue. (Need to switch to a dryer ink!)
2. Al-star black, EF nib, J.Herbin Perle Noire.
3. A South Korean pen called Java, with what appears to be a Schmidt nib, surprisingly smooth, Private Reserve Copper Burst.

[velo]

Lamy Al-Star Aluminium - Lamy Black
Lamy Al-Star Ruby Red - Diamine Syrah
Lamy Studio brushed steel - Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite
TWSBI 580 - Diamine Ancient Copper
Ranga Ebonite Bakul eyedropper - Iroshizuku Kon-Peki
Jinhao x750 - PR Ebony Purple

[heath]

Noodler's Ahab flex demonstrator - Noodler's Apache Sunset


Pilot 78G broad - Noodler's X-feather

Lamy Safari charcoal fine - Waterman's Serenity Blue

Lamy Safari White 1.9 - Diamine Oxblood

Lamy Al-Star Matte Black fine - Noodler's Bulletproof black

Pilot Parallel 2.4 & 6.0mm - Noodler's Bulletproof black

Just fyi there is also on Sanford phd mechanical pencil in the attached image.


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