Sailor Jentle Autumn 2010 Inks...

[SamCapote]

This is the color I got: Sailor Jentle Pretty Ink.

 

Oh yeah, of course! That's the Rikyu-Cha (#212) !!! :roflmho:

 

It is one of the four summer inks that Swisher has for sale here.

 

They also number their LE seasonal inks from 201-204 (Winter), 205-208 (Spring), 209-212 (Summer), and 213-216 (Autumn).

 

I have all 16 in this series, but don't have translations of English color name for all of them.

Edited November 17, 2010 by SamCapote

[Scriptorium Pens]

I just wanted to add to my earlier post where I mentioned that I don't see any shimmer. Well, I do now with the Yama-dori in a broad nib. Beautiful!

[lapis]

Dang it! As soon as I saw a post earlier (sorry, I ferget when and from whom) I instantly ordered all 3 that you mentioned (Kin-Mokusei, Oku-yama, and Yama-dor)...

... only to be confronted with my boss (who sends me the inks) that there is that 4th specimen Chu-Shu.

 

They are all on the way...

 

I love sailor inks !! I it possible to build up a lifetime subscription for this stuff ???

 

Mike

[SamCapote]

Now that I have the 16 seasonal inks from 2010, I'm just hoping they don't keep doing this every year.

[saskia_madding]

I managed to contain myself to just the ones I thought I'd use, which turned out to be all of the autumns, one of the summers, one from last winter, and one from the spring. Still, seven new inks a year is a lot. Way more than I could ever use. Yeesh!

 

And this new love of Sailor inks lead me to get some of the old school Sailor Jentles - blue, green and yellow-orange. I'm drowning in ink ... save me!

[Physalis]

Wow, thanks Triplet Mom- I ordered the Autumn inks through rakuten just a few minutes after seeing this post, and now I have a new favorite ink: Yama-Dori. It looks completely stunning on staples eco-friendly paper. Hopefully the US sailor distributors will be getting these inks, so that we can all stock up.

[drifting]

Now that I have the 16 seasonal inks from 2010, I'm just hoping they don't keep doing this every year.

 

I'm torn. I think re-releasing the past year's editions would be great: there have been some definite winners in each seasonal release, and making more available would be a smart move. Yet they seem to be coming up with such great colours, I think another round of new LEs could also be very very interesting.

 

Ryan.

[yourmanpann]

I recently received the bottles of Yama-Dori and Oku-Yama I ordered after reading the early posts in this thread. I agree that the Yama-Dori is quite special, and the Oku-Yama, while not as close to Yama-Budo as I had hoped, is very nice as well.

[Crim]

Does this mean that Drizzle Rain is discontinued? I might have to buy a few more bottles to make sure I'm set for a while.

 

I have a feeling that shimmer might have to do with excess wet ink, the angle, and the paper used. It seems to shimmer where the ink would normally shade.

 

Could you post a sample on another type of paper with the ink fully dried?

Edited December 3, 2010 by Crim

[nicholasyeo]

Just got myself the beautiful Fuji Musume colour in the summer collection. I must say that this is a well priced ink with lovely flow and a nice subdued shade. I have been looking for something like this, after growing tired of my Iroshizuku Yama-budo... Still searching for Yama-dori and the others seen here.

[redisburning]

just out of curiosity are you guys getting the red shading in yama-dori?

 

Ive been really tempted but turquoise isnt my color; however if there is that wild red shading I will absolutely make an exception.

[indigirl]

bought ten of the inks at Maido

 

Wait! These shimmery ones? I can go to Maido & get them?!

 

When I saw the original post I was wishing I had seen it while I was in Japan recently but if I can just run over to Maido & get them.... well....

 

How much are they charging?

[indigirl]

growing tired of my Iroshizuku Yama-budo...

 

 

wow, you mean that's even possible?!

 

I am newly in love with it myself... it's like writing with liquid velvet!

[nicholasyeo]

growing tired of my Iroshizuku Yama-budo...

 

 

wow, you mean that's even possible?!

 

I am newly in love with it myself... it's like writing with liquid velvet!

I must say that Yama-budo is a lovely colour. Perhaps it is because I have been

using the colour for three years that's why I am getting bored. I am starting to

look for the limited edition colours - I just bought Sailor's Summer 2010 purple

- Fuji Musume because it is quite light coloured and subtle. Anyway, my most

loved colour thus far is Carribean Sea by Caran d'Ache...

[antidote3]

Just wondering whether the original post demonstrating the red shimmer on the yama-dori ink was due to residual 'red' ink from a previous use in the pen that was used!? :embarrassed_smile:

 

It just seemed quite likely especially when a number of others have used yama-dori ink without that shimmering effect?!

[nicholasyeo]

Just wondering whether the original post demonstrating the red shimmer on the yama-dori ink was due to residual 'red' ink from a previous use in the pen that was used!? :embarrassed_smile:

 

It just seemed quite likely especially when a number of others have used yama-dori ink without that shimmering effect?!

This is precisely what I had first thought! I don't understand how a mix of two inks would result in

this kind of effect, unless - as you have mentioned, other inks were residual in the feed.

Which is also kinda sad, because I like the effect. Not to mention, the sites selling this ink don't

quite seem to advertise the two-tone qualities mentioned here.

[drifting]

Re: the shimmer.

 

It's my understanding, from reading threads about other blue inks that have red or purple shimmers to them, that the shimmer is an artifact of dye crystallization at high concentrations. Sailor doesn't advertize these inks as two toned, because they're not.

 

The shimmer is a subtle effect you won't see all the time. You'll have a better chance of seeing it in lines produced by wet writing pens, and even then, you'll likely only see it at an angle in certain lights, in my experience. It's very apparent if you make a swab with a saturated Q-tip, but we don't write with Q-tips. Only a few of my pens give me results like Tripletmom's. But that being said, I have seen the shimmer with Tokiwa-matsu, Shigure, Rikyu-cha, Yama-dori, and Oku-yama in my pens. But even if you don't see it, I think these Sailor LEs are just all around great inks, period, and well worth having.

 

Tripletmom's exemplar has a couple of things going for it: beautiful lines from wet pens with awesome line variation on good quality paper that has a harder surface than typical copy paper: the ink is more likely to pool a bit, and therefore dry with higher concentrations of dye. It's also a great photo shot at an angle in decent light, doing a beautiful job of capturing an ephemeral effect.

 

If you've got the ink but haven't seen the shimmer, play with the pen and paper variables a bit. The ink is only 1/3 of the equation.

 

Ryan.

 

edit spellingz

Edited December 6, 2010 by drifting

[SamCapote]

I am now holding out the possibility that there is actual shading as originally shown, and not necessarily a previous ink contamination, because I recently got a flex F-BB pen from Mauricio (VintagePen.net), and noticed a repeated, distinct red/purple shading when using Pelikan Turquoise. Not believing it at first, I flushed the pen, rinsed until clear, used Koh-I-Noor cleaner, and a bunch more flushing, then filled/emptied back/refilled from Pelikan bottle 3 times, and repeated the finding.

 

I have been practicing being able to write better with this pen which is fun to do. Download the full size version, and look carefully at the start of the "W," the apostrophes, and even some of the downstrokes, and you can see the red shading which is quite visible in person.

 

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h75/pike444/Inks/PelikanTurquoises.jpg

[pen2paper]

oh good! have been holding my breath, hoping this effect was real

[Iranna]

I don't understand. I've seen dye concentration on paper countless of times (and it looks like what can be seen in SamCapote's photo), but it's only in the parts where the ink is very wet, and usually in downstrokes, and only when the pen hasn't been used for a while. The ink always returns to normal after a few words or a couple of lines at the latest. It looks very different from the shimmer in the OP's photo. That really looks like there were red metallic particles in the ink. It's just too even to be dye crystallisation, at least judging from what I've seen in person.