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Sailor is my favourite ink maker (ex-aeque with J. Herbin). Sadly their most interesting inks are available only in Japan or from internet retailers. There are few japanese shops famous for their wide and interesting range of Sailor inks. One of most well-known is Bung Box. A lot of people were taken by interesting bottles and intriguing colors. It seems however that recently many ink enthusiasts started to shy away from this line since Bung Box inks became much more bitterly expensive than other Sailor inks.




The line consists of quite a few colors. My list is incomplete and most of the names aren't translated well. If you have full list of BB inks and/or could help me with correcting english names, help me sort this out :)


  1. 4B Blue/Black
  2. BB Espresso
  3. Dandyism
  4. Ebisu Gold
  5. Emerald
  6. Enshu Black
  7. First Love Sapphire
  8. Fresh Oranges of Lake Hamana
  9. Fuyiyama Blue
  10. Hamanako Eel
  11. Imperial Purple
  12. Ink of the Witch
  13. L’Amant
  14. Luminous Green
  15. Melancholic Gray
  16. Mocha
  17. Music Black
  18. Nostalgia
  19. Oamezaki Sunset
  20. Omaezaki Ocean
  21. Omaezaki Blue
  22. Orange
  23. Pink
  24. Ruby
  25. Sapphire
  26. Silent Night
  27. Soleil
  28. Tears of Clown
  29. Tortoise Shell Brown

Before I write few words about the ink allow me to start by saying thank you mmg122 for sending me samples of different inks.



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Sweet Potato Purple has cool name and is rather nice. It's well behaved and shows some low level of water resistance.




Drops of ink on kitchen towel




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Software ID



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Color range



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Clairefontaine Triomphe, St. Dupont Fidelio, medium nib



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Rhodia, Hero 5028, stub 1.5



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Leuchtturm1917, Hero 5028, stub 1.5




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Linen paper, Hero 5028, stub 1.5



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Water resistance




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I like this color very much, I have a bottle but it is so expensive I do not dare to use it.... :)

 

Bung Box Sweet Potato Purple to expensive

 

Pelikan Edelstein Amethyst limited edition

 

WHY?!?!?!!!!??!!? :lticaptd:

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While I like the color, I've always been dissuaded from purchasing by the price.

 

If you buy an ink and then consider it too precious to use, then perhaps the original purchase was incorrect.

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Thank you for a great review vis!

 

This isn't my favorite Sailor ink straight out of the bottle, but it has the potential to become very special. My favorite way to use it is to let it sit in a very wet pen (that is prone to evaporation) for about a week and then give it a go. The color becomes a much more luscious, darker shade and the sheen becomes magical!

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Mine was in a pen closer to a MONTH, maybe longer because I have more pens inked than I should; the sheen was intense, I had NEVER seen such a sheen with any ink. I have more respect for it after that "accidental" fill!

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