Sailor Sei-Boku (With Scan)

[Hohn]

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Sei-Boku_0002 by JKHohn, on Flickr

 

Just a couple comments:

 

Note the range of shading available (near the very bottom is also this ink).

 

When applied REALLY wet-- THIS INK WILL GIVE RED HALO! YAY! (note the very bottom of page).

 

The grid at the bottom had several drops of water applied and they sat on the paper for 5 min. No effect at all!

 

 

I wrote this with my still-balky Vanishing Point (Broad). The SeiBoku makes the pen a little better mannered than other inks, but it still balks at the first letter on occasion.

Edited September 17, 2011 by Hohn

[Hohn]

A quick torture test demo on an Ampad

 

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SeiBoku_Torture by JKHohn, on Flickr

 

Note: the lines that are "smeared" are paper failure and NOT ink smearing. Each line of writing was swiped 15 times with a rather wet "cuetip" swab. The swab that wetted the paper also destroyed the paper. Those that evaporated quickly (acetone, alcohol), left the paper intact.

 

This is tough (and beautiful) ink.

[ethernautrix]

Oo, very nice! Thanks for the review and torture tests!

[IWantThat]

Thank you for this review. I've had my eye on this one but wasn't sure whether I should go for it. I think I will

[geoduc]

Thanks. This ink is one of my favorites when I'm looking for something that's waterproof.

 

A couple of cautions need to be observed. Sei boku can throw a precipitate when mixed with incompatible inks, so you'll want to ensure that your pen is cleaned out very well before and after using it. Also, I have had sei boku stain some converters (Platinum and Schmidt). It goes away after using a different ink for a while, but something to be aware of.

[Hohn]

Yes, the ink is on the "higher maintenance" end of the spectrum, but it offers so much in return that I don't mind.

 

Then again, I'm a BSB user, so I'm already used to putting in a little extra.

[XiaoMG]

Picked some of this up just recently, and it's quickly become one of my favorite inks. In incandescent and similar lighting, I get lots of sheen effects even from a juicy F nib, and the shading is very nice overall. Kon-peki has much more vibrance as a blue, and Ku-jaku has great shading, but I have to say Seiboku is a great color with an awesome overall look and marvelous durability. It's pretty expensive, but man it's nice stuff.

[Ruminator]

I absolutely love the color of Sei Boku! It didn't work well in my Esterbrook J Transitional with a 9668 (medium) nib. It was a dry-writer and hard-starter and creeped all over the nib.

 

I don't mind nib creep, but the non-starting issue didn't do it for me. If it worked in my daily writers, I'd be all over this ink! It's one I really want to love and I might yet go ahead and buy a bottle. This will be especially true if I'm not successful in my search for the perfect blue-black, because this one really caught my eye... and then refused to give it back.

 

-=d