EFNIR: Sailor Kin-mokusei

[Sailor Kenshin]

Is that squirrel by any chance GREEN? 🤣

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Is that squirrel by any chance GREEN? 🤣

This one will be by the time it reaches somewhere

[LizEF]

26 minutes ago, yazeh said:

This one will be by the time it reaches somewhere

[InesF]

18 hours ago, yazeh said:

This one will be by the time it reaches somewhere

[Lithium466]

Why isn't this the in-your-face orange version of Irori? Why did they discontinue Apricot instead of keeping it and adding a nuclear orange ☢️ to the lineup? Tsss, another one that broke my heart! And it dares shading too, yuck.

 

I am kidding of course, Kin-Mokusei is very useful to temper Irori and make a very nice red/orange, if you're into that

[LizEF]

3 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

Why isn't this the in-your-face orange version of Irori? Why did they discontinue Apricot instead of keeping it and adding a nuclear orange ☢️ to the lineup? Tsss, another one that broke my heart! And it dares shading too, yuck.

Alas, our inky whys never get answered.

[SashK]

While I do agree in sentiment with @Lithium466, I also have to say that @LizEF is correct as this entire hobby is fleeting and being discontinued left and right. Swipe of a pen in some office halfway around the world. Bottom lines, randomness, it keeps happening. Apricot was a one-and-done orange for me, and the first one I fell in love with. I was very lucky to grab a final bottle in those final days, but Kin Mokusei is a fine one too. I still don't reach for too many orange inks, tough to transcribe more than a page. 

 

This is a great review, no doubt about it. 

 

But the glassy silvery sheen is the real secret to this ink, and why Sailor inks are so special. 

[LizEF]

10 minutes ago, SashK said:

This is a great review, no doubt about it. 

Thanks!

 

10 minutes ago, SashK said:

But the glassy silvery sheen is the real secret to this ink, and why Sailor inks are so special. 

The sheen was quite a surprise, and yeah, Sailor are real pros when it comes to ink-making.

 

11 minutes ago, SashK said:

this entire hobby is fleeting and being discontinued left and right

Thankfully, we're never short of variety when it comes to inks - hopefully this phase doesn't die out any time soon!  The pens can always be maintained and sold again decades later, but ink is a consumable, we need the makers to keep making!