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Here's my review of Sailor Epinard. It's a nice, well behaved dark green. A little disclaimer though. I was having one heck of a time getting the color to scan correctly, so after several tries I think I at least got close, but I still can't guarantee it's accurate.

 

http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh494/gunsandlights/SailorEpinardMedium.jpg

 

http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh494/gunsandlights/SailorEpinardPensUsed.jpg

 

http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh494/gunsandlights/SailorEpinardHunt.jpg

 

http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh494/gunsandlights/SailorEpinardObservations.jpg

 

http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh494/gunsandlights/SailorEpinardComparisons.jpg

 

http://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh494/gunsandlights/SailorEpinardShading.jpg

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Very nice review! This is one of my favorite inks, and definitely my favorite green :)

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Have I mentioned your reviews are fabulous mhphoto :)

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I already liked the colour and it's definitely on my list now.

Thanks for this lovely review!

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Thanks for this good review! Yes, I,too, have found this ink to be a delight to use--very well-behaved ink and a great color.

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Thanks for another great review.

In another topic someone said that this ink was a good replacement for MB British Racing Green. Not seeing them side-by-side I don't know, but based on your review this is a very nice dark green ink.

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That may have been me who suggested this as a substitute for MBRG. It is close as you can see, but Epinard is brighter and has more yellow to it. MBRG also features more permanence.

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Thanks for the kind words, everyone! :)

 

It does seems to be quite waterproof. Right?

 

Yep! Some color washes away, leaving a dark blue behind. Very readable in the water (torture) test I just slapped together.

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Bit weird for me, this Sailor Epinard. I opened a fresh bottle, used an eyedropper to transfer some to a small filling vial and a 3" snakelike or vermiform inclusion in the ink (as if it were congealed there) came out with it. Not appealing.

 

The nonstarter is that the brownish color which represents the shading upon drying is too muddy for my taste.

 

But I have similar complaints about Private Reserve's Ebony-Blue - way too much black with a bit of a turquoise-y blue peeking out here and there.

 

Just my 2¢.

 

Great review, by the way.

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Your efforts to get a good scan were well worth it. Sailor Epinard is my favorite green, and it's the only green I kept a bottle of. It looks almost identical to what I see on my computer screen, and if anything the ink looks a little bit darker to me in real life. Though, I only use it with a fine nib and therefore lose some of the spectrum available in this ink.

 

Wonderful review!

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Bit weird for me, this Sailor Epinard. I opened a fresh bottle, used an eyedropper to transfer some to a small filling vial and a 3" snakelike or vermiform inclusion in the ink (as if it were congealed there) came out with it. Not appealing.

 

The nonstarter is that the brownish color which represents the shading upon drying is too muddy for my taste.

That's what's commonly referred to as SITB (stuff/slime in the bottle) and you should definitely not use it in any of your pens. If you contact the company you bought it from they should accept an exchange/return of the contaminated bottle, and you can always send it to Sailor so they can figure out what is going on with the ink.

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I 'discovered' this ink a couple months ago searching for a primary ink for my new (to me) Pelikan Toledo. I was really taken by this ink, my fist from Sailor. So much so that as I look back through journal posts, letter writtng and doodle pages since that time, I see that I have been using this ink a LOT.

 

As for the color, green and all it's versions is at the top pof my list and I tend to favor the spectrum I call 'pond muck'.So if you're more inclined to bright, or brilliant hues this probably won't interest, but its inside the 10 ring for me.

 

Oh yes, great review as always and I would say your color is a pretty good match for the ink on paper in person.

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That's what's commonly referred to as SITB (stuff/slime in the bottle) and you should definitely not use it in any of your pens. If you contact the company you bought it from they should accept an exchange/return of the contaminated bottle, and you can always send it to Sailor so they can figure out what is going on with the ink.

 

Thanks, K. Cakes! Appreciate the heads up on that.

Mark Polis, MD

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Run it in a drier pen.

 

Or, you could dilute with 10% distilled water. If still too much, dilute with 20%

 

 

Thanks for your review! It looks like a great ink, but a little too dark for me, is there an ink that looks like the Diluted version? TIA :)

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Run it in a drier pen.

 

Or, you could dilute with 10% distilled water. If still too much, dilute with 20%

 

 

Wouldn't diluting the ink that much make it much more prone to feathering? Or is this pretty standard practice with more saturated inks?

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very close to racing green :thumbup: nice review thanks for sharing

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Photos have disappeared. Any means of recovering them?

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