Am I Allowed To Ask This?

[Charles Skinner]

I may not be allowed to ask this. If not, please excuse me. I bought a sample of Sailor Yama-Dori sometime ago and remember liking it very much. Since now I am "knee deep" into the "ink mixing world," I wonder if any of you know of a "homemade ink mixture" that is somewhat like this Sailor ink. Again, excuse me if this is a "no-no!"

 

C. S.

[Charles Skinner]

Come on, you'll ---- Tell me what you think. C. S.

[LizEF]

I can't see why it would be a no-no. I don't recall seeing anything about how to recreate Yama Dori. I suspect a recreation wouldn't be likely to have the sheen.

 

If you search threads on mixing De Atramentis Document inks, you'll find a link to an external website (Jane B... something, I think) where she shows ratios and the colors which result. I'm sure there's a tealish color there. But they don't have sheen, in my experience.

 

Otherwise, teal is achieved through mixing blue and green... Although, if you mix Waterman Black with Waterman Inspired Blue, you'll get teal, because Waterman Black has green in it. You might be able to get a Yama Dori-like color out of that mix by playing with ratios...

[Chrissy]

You would need to think of something to start with and that would probably be a Sailor Blue plus a Sailor Green. As Yama dori is part of the standard range and costs less than buying the other two bottles I think many would just buy a bottle of Yama dori and have done with it. It's only $12.56 on eBay

[Moonshae]

Besides, isn't yama-dori also renowned for its ability to remove ink stains from within transparent barrels? Any mix made of other inks wouldn't offer this potentially desirable feature.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Besides, isn't yama-dori also renowned for its ability to remove ink stains from within transparent barrels? Any mix made of other inks wouldn't offer this potentially desirable feature.

I think that's Do You.

 

Charles, you might replicate the YD color but not the sheen.

[Chrissy]

Besides, isn't yama-dori also renowned for its ability to remove ink stains from within transparent barrels? Any mix made of other inks wouldn't offer this potentially desirable feature.

 

No, that's definitely Do-you

[bobje]

Chrissy is right. Yama dori sheens so reliably and performs so well. Just buy the real thing and forget about it. (And thanks for the eBay link, Chrissy. Wow, there are a lot of eBay vendors selling Sailor Jentle inks.)

[Chrissy]

Chrissy is right. Yama dori sheens so reliably and performs so well. Just buy the real thing and forget about it. (And thanks for the eBay link, Chrissy. Wow, there are a lot of eBay vendors selling Sailor Jentle inks.)

 

Thanks. There are, and I always search for "lowest price including shipping"

[dcwaites]

There is no legal or moral problem with blending other inks to look like any particular ink. Just look at how many attempts there are to replicate MB British Racing Green and Parker Penman Sapphire in the Recipes forum.

 

What would be overstepping the mark would be to reverse-engineer an ink (using gas-chromatography and other techniques), replicate it, and sell it for profit.

 

From experience, it is relatively easy to replicate the colour of another ink. What is hard is to replicate the other behaviours like quick drying, shading, sheening and the like.