Sailor Ishida Bungu Hakodate Twilight Blue

[gylyf]

 

In my pens, this ink behaves better than Sailor Blue, which has a tendency to dry out for me. But I'm not sure the price difference is worth it...

 

 

Shading and sheen.

Edited March 23, 2015 by gylyf

[Morbus Curiositas]

Sailor has the nasty habit ;-) of making excellent inks

[gylyf]

Sailor has the nasty habit ;-) of making excellent inks

Excellent and pricy, unfortunately for those of us who aren't fortunate enough to live in Japan

[Frank C]

Thank you for posting this. I love blue ink. I am glad that there are similar blues, because I suspect that this another Japan-only ink.

[Tinjapan]

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In my pens, this ink behaves better than Sailor Blue, which has a tendency to dry out for me. But I'm not sure the price difference is worth it...

 

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Shading and sheen.

I am surprised that this ink does not sheen but a little for you. It is one of, if not the most sheeny inks I have. It is full of sheen for me.

[gylyf]

]I am surprised that this ink does not sheen but a little for you. It is one of, if not the most sheeny inks I have. It is full of sheen for me.

 

The pen I initially loaded it and wrote the review with, a Sailor PG in B, isn't especially wet, so the sheen, while definitely present, wasn't as pronounced for me as, say, Yama-dori coming out of a Pilot I've tweaked to be a very wet writer. But you're right, it's a very sheeny ink; I've since used it in a finer, wetter nib and on Tomoe River, and the sheen is almost distracting.

 

Edited March 24, 2015 by gylyf

[Tinjapan]

Distracting! Why what could be distracting about an ink so beautiful that one doesn't even care what was written with it?

[VivienR]

There is only one problem with Sailor inks: they are very limited outside of Japan.

[mongrelnomad]

Yup - great ink with big time sheen here too... Love this ink...