Sailor Ink Studio 173

[lgsoltek]

Sailor Ink Studio 173 is a very undersaturated colour that ranges from a pale yellow to a pale orange/pink. Basically the colour of raw salmon.

 

The flow is medium without much lubrication. Barely legible even in a wet Pelikan broad nib.

 

All images are scans colour-corrected with grey card, except close-up photos which are also white-balanced with a grey card.

 

Splash

 

Sample

(Pens: Pilot Justus 95 Soft Fine Medium, Pelikan M600 Broad)

 

(Maruman looseleaf)

 

 

 

 

(Rhodia)

 

 

 

(Tomoe River)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[lgsoltek]

Comparison

 

 

 

 

[LizEF]

Thanks for the review!  Loved the review, but I can live without the ink.  Maybe if @Tas gets tired of drawing koi he can try salmon (fillets?) instead.

[yazeh]

I concur with Liz. I love your review, but the ink... 

It reminds me of a pen losing ink

 

 

[mizgeorge]

Thank you !

 

I loved the review, and I love the ink too - the moment you stop thinking of it as salmon and think of it as 'coral' it feels very different. It was one of my early purchases from the Studio range, and I still use it regularly - more for drawing than for writing, but it's fun for the odd bit of lettering and highlighting too.

 

 

[white_lotus]

If the ink was like your splotch, well, then we'd be getting somewhere... 

[Tas]

On 6/6/2021 at 4:46 AM, LizEF said:

Thanks for the review!  Loved the review, but I can live without the ink.  Maybe if @Tas gets tired of drawing koi he can try salmon (fillets?) instead.

😂😂

Lgsoltek, I never tire of looking at your handwriting and your excellent reviews . . . even if the ink you're reviewing looks like what's left in my Vac 700 when I've washed Ancient Copper out of it . . .

[inkstainedruth]

Too pale, and too orange for me (too bad, like what white_lotus said, that it's not like the splash).

But thanks as usual for the comprehensive review.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ErrantSmudge]

Reminds me of Lamy Bronze, a really disappointing unsaturated peach hue of which I was stupid to purchase an entire bottle.  Won't make the same mistake a second time!

[Bikerchick]

Another lovely review, Igsoltek!

 

Let me start off by saying that I don't like orange, and not just when it comes to ink. As a child, the orange Fruittellas were always the last ones to get eaten. The only orange ink I have in my collection is Montblanc Lucky Orange, and the only reasons I got it is because I'm a sucker for inks with high shading, I was curious about Montblanc inks and because it was on sale. The 30 ml bottle will last me several lifetimes. (@Mizgeorge: I'm leaving it to you in my will.) 

I was making some ink swatches today and came across a sample of this Sailor ink. I had totally forgotten about its existence. I inked a pen with it and managed to spill half of the vial's content all over my hands. I'm such a freaking klutz. 

 

Unlike most others here, I quite like this ink, but only on Tomoe River paper. Midori paper is too yellow in this case. On Rhodia and Clairefontaine, it kinda falls flat on its face. Despite the Exxon ink spill, I managed to fill an entire converter with ink. The pen I used has one of the juiciest nibs in my collection, and I think it really did help make this ink shine. It made the shading spectacular. The gusher of a nib also had a downside: the converter was empty in no time at all. 

 

So, I'm not sure I will buy this ink. At 15€ for a 20 ml bottle, it's a little too rich for my blood, considering it wouldn't last very long. Now, if someone gets this ink as a gift and wants to unload it, my birthday is September 20th. Just sayin'. 

[DrDebG]

Excellent review, as always.  

 

But I must differ with you.  It looks like farm raised salmon, not wild caught salmon.  he he he

 

If I was drawing this might be worthwhile.  But for me it is not a color I think I could use.