Sailor Shigure

[gylyf]

Love the way this ink performs, but the color doesn't quite do it for me in the finer nibs I tend to prefer.

 

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm5/morocons/Ink/IMG_1233_zpsbm0ylg5n.jpg

 

Tried to capture the sheen on Tomoe River:

 

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm5/morocons/Ink/IMG_1234%201_zps7mrjjyrh.jpg

Edited April 13, 2015 by gylyf

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review.

I tried Shigure, hoping to get the color of Noodler's Kung Te Cheng in a slightly better behaved ink. But Shigure is not the color.

I found it to be interesting, but extremely saturated. I ended up refilling the pen it was in with distilled water, and found almost no appreciable dilution of color. And even then, it was a bit hard to flush out of the pen, a Noodler's FPC IIRC.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Goudy]

I do like the colour (dark blue pepped up by a hint of purple) but I find Shigure to be quite a thick-flowing ink. It makes my fine nibs write like mediums. I haven't noticed this problem with the other Sailor Jentle ink I own, Oku-Yama (crimson red).

[jasonchickerson]

My sample of Shigure was much, much more purple and darker than what you've shown here. It is also too wet for any of my pens. Like, gushing.

[sakayume]

Thanks for the review. I think the second picture is pretty much what I see colourwise when I write with Shigure. It looks like a velvety blue black, but the purples come out when diluted or washed over with water.

 

I too have found that it makes my pens write wider, which I actually rather like as its usual pen is a Japanese F nib. Doyou exhibits the same characteristic for me too.

[gylyf]

Thanks for the review. I think the second picture is pretty much what I see colourwise when I write with Shigure. It looks like a velvety blue black, but the purples come out when diluted or washed over with water.

 

I too have found that it makes my pens write wider, which I actually rather like as its usual pen is a Japanese F nib. Doyou exhibits the same characteristic for me too.

 

I haven't tried Doyou, but Miruai does the same for me as well. I *love* Shigure's characteristics; I'm just not in love with the color...

[AndyYNWA]

Any shading?

[tursilmatik]

No shading man...

 

I tried shigure in a few different pens with different characteristics, and all resulted the same: as saturated as Noodler's Midway, which is probably the most intense-colour i have ever used.

 

However Shıgure is cleaned more easily than Midway Blue.