Sailor Miruai

[drifting]

I hesitate to put this in the full review section, as it's just a quick look at a new and unusual color.

 

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This colour is hard to define (and hard to capture accurately), but is perhaps best called a very dark teal. Verdigris & Squeteague were the two inks that sprang to mind when I started using it: I've heard them both described as dark green, but have always thought of them as dark blue/teals. As you can see from the photo, Miruai is darker than either, and in direct comparison, Verdigris and Squeteague don't seem to have any green at all - though it is there when you look at them individually. I wonder if a blue background would let the green highlights show more?

 

From the image:

 

Sailor Miruai - Blue Sea Pine

Spring 2010 LE

 

Comments: A deep dark blue-green. Or is it green-blue. Mysterious. Sea pine is an apt name - it puts me in mind of hiking along a coast temperate rain forest trail on a misty day. Very nice.

 

Attributes: Miruai is a smooth flowing ink, typical of the Sailor Jentle line. It dries reasonably quickly and doesn't feather or bleed on this 20 lb copy paper. This M Aurora nib is a bit of a gusher, so we get a hint of bleedthrough on cheap paper, but it performs well on decent paper.

 

Pens and Paper: Rotring Art Pen 2.3, Aurora 88 M on Boise XMP Multipurpose 20 lb 92 brightness.

 

Ryan.

[777]

Nice review! From what you say it appears that this ink dries quickly. Or is it just the paper that you were using? It it an interesting color indeed.

 

Regards,

777

[Silvermink]

Pretty. Been thinking of snagging Miruai in my next TWD order (if they still have it by the time I have money to spend again, that is).

[encremental]

I've just bought the four Spring Inks, and this is definitely the standout. It's pretty much black when you write with it, but then dries to this interesting green. For such a saturated ink, it seems very well behaved so far. My advice is to go for it if you can.

 

John

[Anne S. Gray]

I've just bought the four Spring Inks, and this is definitely the standout. It's pretty much black when you write with it, but then dries to this interesting green. For such a saturated ink, it seems very well behaved so far. My advice is to go for it if you can.

 

John

 

Is anyone in the US carrying these inks? I'd love to know where I can purchase them.

[drifting]

From what you say it appears that this ink dries quickly. Or is it just the paper that you were using?

Yeah, on the copy paper it seemed to dry almost instantly. On Clairefontaine, which is the densest, slickest paper I use, it still dries quick enough for me, somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds in a really wet writer.

 

 

Is anyone in the US carrying these inks? I'd love to know where I can purchase them.

That's a good question - I bought mine off Rakuten in Japan. Keep an eye on Swisher's site, as they've got the Winter LEs and may get the Spring LEs in at some point, though the Summer LEs are already out in Japan.

 

I'm a bit unhappy with the whole LE distribution model, particularly as they seem to get me with at least two out of the four every time, and I can't just put them on the List for later - I feel like I need to get them before they disappear. I was done buying ink for a while, but the Summer LEs have these two cool browns...

 

Ryan.

[LostInThought]

Thanks for the review, it's a beautiful colour.

[Sandy1]

Thanks for the Review. I'd been thinking about this one, but when I went to buy it from The Writing Desk, it was out of stock, and if this is a limited ink, then maybe that's all there is. Too bad.

 

Perhaps the DeAtramentis Midnight Blue, (SWAB LINK), could pull it off - looking for a shift away from the Verdigris.

Edited July 16, 2010 by Sandy1

[twdpens]

Thanks for the Review. I'd been thinking about this one, but when I went to buy it from The Writing Desk, it was out of stock, and if this is a limited ink, then maybe that's all there is. Too bad.

 

Thank you for your interest. We have some more coming either today or Monday, hopefully.

 

Martin

[twdpens]

Update: it's back in stock.

 

Martin

[drifting]

Update: it's back in stock.

 

Martin

 

Martin, when will the Summer LEs be available at your shop?

 

Ryan.

[saintsimon]

This ink reminds me of Noodler's Aircorp Blue-Black.

[dandelion]

Great review of an ink I've been very curious of! Interesting colour.

 

Saint Simon; you're right, but the Aircorps is greener and warmer than this looks like.

Update: it's back in stock.

 

Martin

 

 

Great! I just popped by today and saw that you had run out of it - it seems quite popular!

[Silvermink]

Update: it's back in stock.

 

Whew! I was worried there for a sec.

[drifting]

This ink reminds me of Noodler's Aircorp Blue-Black.

 

Didn't I read in one of the doppelganger threads that Aircorps Blue-black is a ringer for Vedigris?

 

Maybe Noodler's/Swisher Tahitian Pearl is close?

 

Ryan.

 

ETA link

Edited July 16, 2010 by drifting

[saintsimon]

This ink reminds me of Noodler's Aircorp Blue-Black.

 

Didn't I read in one of the doppelganger threads that Aircorps Blue-black is a ringer for Vedigris?

 

Maybe Noodler's/Swisher Tahitian Pearl is close?

 

Ryan.

 

ETA link

No, Verdigris is bluer, while Aircorp has hardly any blue in it. Tahitian Pearl is rather blue-green-gray, less blue than Verdigris and less green than Aircorp. They are alle distinguishable, and I have them all. I just put Aircorp into a dry Stipula Suprema, and the Miruai here looks close to it.

Edited July 17, 2010 by saintsimon

[drifting]

Tahitian Pearl is rather blue-green-gray, less blue than Verdigris and less green than Aircorp.

 

That sounds good. I've always thought I should get a bottle of Tahitian Pearl, but I've never made an order from Swisher, for no good reason other than I find the website irritating. An idiotic reason, but there it is.

 

Ryan.