Tag: Sailor
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Swatch Card Comparison
I like to keep swatches of all my inks in a binder. In the past I’ve used Rhodia 80gsm but paper never felt right; too flimsy and I was never good at cutting accurate and consistent rectangles. In the past there was Maruman Mnemosyne Word Cards (which I never used), this year (2017) there is…
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My Pen Collection
I mentioned, when sharing my ink collection, that I had 58 pens and this will be a tour, of sorts, of all 58. It’s an eclectic array of pens; from a cheap Noodler’s Creeper to the now rather pricy OMAS Paragon Brown Arco Celluloid, my pens are hardly unified. I haven’t really got a focus with the…
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637 Bottles and 33.47 litres of Ink
It took a while but I finally cleaned the space around my ink shelf and and arranged the bottles somewhat to take a photo of the entire collection. The title is a bit untrue because as of these photos, 619 bottles of ink were on the shelf (well, one I forgot was on my desk)…
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Sailor Pens and Inks Facebook Group
Sailor inks have been my favourite inks for a while now. They frequently satisfy the characteristics of inks that I appreciate but are also very collectable. They have limited edition pens and inks as well as difficult to acquire Store Exclusive inks. This makes hunting down and collecting their inks fun (and pricy) but much…
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Ink Review: Robert Oster Signature Ink River of Fire
While Robert Oster Signature Ink’s Fire & Ice isn’t going to go anywhere, River of Fire hopes to be the successor to Fire & Ice’s crown. Like Fire & Ice, River of Fire has a great name and a border of sheen. The ink colour itself was created based on the colour of Rob’s boyhood…
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Ink Comparison: Oranges
These are by no means all my orange inks, but I think they are a pretty decent and interesting set of ten. I have three Sailor oranges, as well as some other well regarded inks. These are swatched and written with a glass dip pen. I have not inked these for this comparison. The inks…
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Ink Review: Kobe INK #38 Kitanozaka Night Blue
I was given a sample of this ink earlier in the year but it wasn’t until I eventually swatched it on Tomoe River that I decided to grab a bottle; I’ve never seen an ink sheen quite like this one. As a Nagasawa Sailor-made exclusive, the ink isn’t the cheapest to acquire from outside of…