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    Default Where do you store your inks?

    To store my ink bottles, previously getting in the way on my desk and album shelves, I just finished installing floating shelves above my desk in the basement office.



    Where do you store your inks and how many bottles do you have? I'd love to see pics.

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    Not tellin' how many, but I store them in a hutch cabinet.
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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    I have a plastic 3 drawer storage thing that I keep all my guitar and music theory books in the bottom and all my vape stuff in the second and the top I have miscellaneous things and my 9 bottles of ink stay in that drawer. All of them being noodlers I like the art work and when I finally get more inks by different brands that have nice bottles I will probably get a shelf so I can see them.

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    Quote Originally Posted by azkid View Post
    ...Where do you store your inks and how many bottles do you have? I'd love to see pics.
    Hey, the photo on the card propped with the ink looks just like the old train station in Hamburg, Pennsylvania USA.

    I store my "active" inks in an artist paint box in a closet by my desk, which protects them from sunlight. Several brands and colors have been decanted into old 50ml MB bottles and labeled as such. Duplicate new bottles are in the drawer beneath the box. There are about 50 bottles all told, plus 5ml vials.

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    I have three pens; so I have three ink bottles; stored in my desk's drawer, next to the Scotch tape and earphones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FredRydr View Post
    Hey, the photo on the card propped with the ink looks just like the old train station in Hamburg, Pennsylvania USA.
    I figured you'd spot that. It's a postcard you kindly included with that gorgeous Sheaffer Signature touchdown I bought from you.

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    Too many, mostly bottles, stacked in their original boxes in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet. A few frequently used bottles in a cubby on my desk.

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    In the music room, on the bookcase shelf, over the harp, next to the Water Rower, between the Ukrainian oil portrait and the marble bust of Diana.

    Arranged by color category.

    Perhaps a dozen bottles.
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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    Two bankers boxes and two shoeboxes (one with samples, one with the daily rotation inks). Don't judge.
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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    I only have twenty bottles and maybe half a dozen sample vials (with four more in limbo). Roughly a third are in my desk drawer at work, the others are on a shelf above my computer in the study.
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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    I found I was using my inks more than my Lenox china, sooooo...

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    On a vintage (50s) wooden pharmacy cupboard, and a five drawer wooden archive box, until I don’t find the idoneous storage pièce officielle fourniture.
    I have around 60 bottles, and going on.

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    Way too many inks for too many pens.

    One bottle of each ink is in the center of a long dining room table, and the rest are on a shelf in the pantry.

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    I use a Wooden Soda Crate I got from Michael's. I need another one.

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    I've been concerned about sunlight wearing out my inks...so I purchased a nice Cigar Box and store my inks in there.
    My collection is small enough that I can do that.
    I only have two more bottles of my Holy Grail ink coming in the mail next week...then my collection is pretty much complete until the 750th anniversary ink for J.Herbin comes out.
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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    They are in a combined file and storage cabinet from IKEA. Reference and archived files are in the bottom. Ink, stationary, etc. are in the top.

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    The available inky drawers are full so quite a few of my inks are stored in boxes on the floor of a North facing bedroom.

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    Quote Originally Posted by A Smug Dill View Post
    This was six months ago:





    before my Diamine inks had to move out into these six boxes, five of which only contains bottles that have been opened, and the last one only unopened bottles:



    There are also about fifty unopened bottles of (non-Diamine) ink sitting in cardboard cartons crammed under the guest bed.
    Goodness gracious...
    That's a LOT of ink!!!
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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    I've seen where men have dozens of shave soaps pucks displayed like some of you display inks.

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    Default Re: Where do you store your inks?

    I cleared off a shelf in the linen closet, so the sun doesn't get to them. But I just got a new desk, and it has some drawer space. So I will probably move a few bottles to the desk for easy access, like a basic Quink, Waterman, or Skrip blue, black, and blue-black.

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