Sailor's Full Ink Lines Including Shop Exclusives Compiled In A Post?

[swanjun]

https://twitter.com/yumenekoya/status/597271848724746242

another strawberry pink ink according to the tweet Joyful and sailor... I'm not sure which branch of Joyful but I checked the gunma prefecture rakuten nothing... may 10... elusive...

 

plus another pen from joyful...

 

Atsu says this is a Joyful-2 ink called Tochiotome Red. Here's some info about that special variety of strawberries:

https://kitkataddict.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/kitkat-tochiotome/

[Algester]

Atsu says this is a Joyful-2 ink called Tochiotome Red. Here's some info about that special variety of strawberries:

https://kitkataddict.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/kitkat-tochiotome/

I know but there's no spot of it in rakuten unless I missed something

[Dhruv_Sood]

Finally found a source for epinard, grenade, ultramarine and peche.

Peche is pink, so yuck.

[AndyYNWA]

I kinda want to try the peche. /sigh

Send an email an ask if they can help you anyway.

http://www.penshop.se/contact_us.php

[Cyber6]

I kinda want to try the peche. /sigh

 

Honestly... you are not missing much. Is so light (much lighter that the marketing pic) that is unreadable... Not practical at all.

 

Check here... http://inkofmefondly.blogspot.ca/2013/06/peche-sailor-jentle-ink-review.html

 

 

You want a nice pink with a vintage look... go for Diamine Carnation...

 

http://images.plurk.com/wrsJ-RsPK4xIwoDC1l4LAbm6zs.jpg

 

http://eliezerzn.blogspot.ca/2013/11/diamine-flower-set.html

[haruka337]

Finally found a source for epinard, grenade, ultramarine and peche.

Peche is pink, so yuck.

Seems everyone has found sources these days, but I find most of these colors icky or doppelgangers to existing Sailor inks.

[Dhruv_Sood]

Well, can't disagree with that. Epinard looks extremely close to Tokiwa-matsu unless both are seen side-by-side. Same with oku-Yama and grenade. Ultramarine is a bit different that Nioi-Sumire.

[lgsoltek]

My experience with Ultramarine and Nioi-sumire is that they are extremely similar, except that Ultramarine is slightly more purple and NS slightly more blue if you compare them side-by-side.

[Dhruv_Sood]

I picked this image up from penchalet.

 

 

Not much difference and I just lost the drive to buy 3 bottles of epinard. ~_~

[Algester]

dhruv_sood if I were you I'd just locate the inks that is not being the doppelganger of the current inks say like looking for peach and apricot

its probably why Onnago-iro days inks Tokimeki and Hachimitsu probably got into heavy demand but I'm not so sure

Edited October 10, 2015 by Algester

[Dhruv_Sood]

As you say Algester.

 

http://www.melpens.com/sailor-fountain-pen-50ml-bottle-ink/

 

Grenade, Epinard, ultramarine and peche available here.

[Kanayama]

Looks like no, they changed it in September.

I just went to the ink blending event in Tokyo this weekend. Mr. Ishimaru was wonderful to chat with while he was blending our inks.

At the end he gave us our special-order numbers and said we could re-order at any sailor pen dealer but to expect a lead time of two weeks.

He also said that recently his ink blending clinics have been so popular that he has to limit customers to one bottle/clinic.

If you can go to one in a city that is not Tokyo it is not so busy and you may be able to blend multiple colors/multiple bottles of the same color.

[Kanayama]

I know but there's no spot of it in rakuten unless I missed something

It seems to be from the Joyful Honda-2 store in Utsunomiya city in Tochigi prefecture.

Although all the references I am finding to it seem to be timed stamped circa 2011.

They had(have?) A whole Tochigi prefecture themed lineup, similar to the Gunma prefecture version. I did find a random instagram pic of the shelf.

 

https://instagram.com/p/eUwji/

[Kanayama]

The Gunma prefecture inks are all sold out at Joyful Honda-2 Nitta. They practically disappeared overnight.

 

Being from Gunma I talked to Mr. Ishimaru about the Gunma ink. He had an interesting story. Apparently over half of them were created by 1 customer who kept coming to his ink clinics before so many people bothered to come. She name her colors after famous in her home prefecture of Gunma and tried to capture the essence of each place in each color. She ordered replacements so often that the manager at Joyful and Mr. Ishimaru joked that they should make a special ink store using her colors. And then they did.

 

He also mentioned that he expects the special inks to be mostly back in stock by spring. They have solved the bottle problem and, additionaly, the inks will no longer be hand blended. Demand is so great that he can't keep up so previously released colors will be blended and bottled in the factory.

He may continue to hand blend limited release inks like the recent Maruzen Kyoto lemon. He was proud of hand blending all the bottles but it seems the sudden popularity has taken him by surprise. Many of his old loyal customers are frustrated that they have get up early to fight speculators to buy ink that used to just "be waiting on the shelf."

Switching to factory blending will hopefully ensure that everyone can get some ink.

[Algester]

ohh so thats some new insights

any news with onnago-iro days or thats still off the list?

so that means most of the known inks will no longer be hand blended except with a few exceptions (ink clinic/ink atelier being the highest possibility of it still being blend by hand)

I'll disect this list of ones which would be hand made or factory made

Factory made

15 Joyful Honda of Gunma Prefecture inks (Purple heart excluded but its limited edition)

52 Nagasawa Kobe Inks

8 Shikisai

8 Storia inks

3 Standard inks

2 Nano-Particle inks (kiwa-guro & seiboku)

Hand made to be updated?

15 Bungbox (packaging has changed so is the price)

5 Kingdom Note (the current 15 is probably no longer in production)

8 Pen and Message

8 Maruzen Athena (Blue-Black is by Pilot)

15 Sankodo Inks (Oosone Blue might be limited edition)

9 Hougado Pen Gallery Inks

13 Usagiya Inks

8 Bungo no Kura Rihei Inks

2 Shousaikan inks

5 Daimaru Inks

12 Akashi Bungu inks (could be sailor worst case scenario packaged as a sailor jentle bottle)

6 Ishida bungu inks

4 Pen lounge Ir inks

2 Morita inks

4 Pen land cafe inks

4 Tomiya Stationary inks

1 Boku-Kaoru from Nagasawa Kobe

Edited October 11, 2015 by Algester

[lgsoltek]

I don't mind them being factory made. They will be easier to acquire for everyone.

[AndyYNWA]

@Algester

Do you mean the Seasons ink by Shikisai?

[Algester]

@Algester

Do you mean the Seasons ink by Shikisai?

aye what we currently got Nioi-Sumire and so on

[AndyYNWA]

OK

I actually thought all standard range inks already were machine made.

Edited October 11, 2015 by AndyYNWA

[Algester]

OK

I actually thought all standard range inks already were machine made.

yeah they are machine made... what you expect?