Since he established his shop, Chen has been through four or five hundred molds. "Some wore out," he says. "Others had patterns or names on them that the market didn't respond well to, so I stopped using them." These days, Chen has about 140 different molds on hand.
自設墨廠至今，陳嘉德擁有四、五百支的模具，「有些日久損壞，有些是花紋或墨條名稱不受歡迎，被市場淘汰了，」如今留在手上的約有一百四十支不同形狀的模具。