Unusual inks - Sample PIF

[migo984]

Hi All

I have a few unusual and/or hard-to-obtain inks and I'd like to offer the opportunity to a fellow Geek to try a couple of them.

I'm offering a choice of 2 samples from the following:

Blackstone Blue.
An Australian ink. I'm very impressed with its performance, colour and ease of cleaning.

Maruzen Athena Nihombashi Midori (Jade)
One of the bespoke inks made by Sailor for Maruzen. Only 200 bottles of this ink were made available.

Sailor Stationery Box Blue
An ink only supplied with the special edition Sailor Pro Gear Realo demonstrator Naginata-Togi, made for Shuumi bungu no Hako (Stationery Box) magazine in Japan.

Maruzen Athena Nihombashi Kirin
Another one of the Maruzen inks, limited to 200 bottles

Joyful-2 Purple Heart
A bespoke Sailor ink made for Joyful Honda in Japan. A beautiful subtle purple.

Pen and Message Cigar
A Sailor ink, much sought after by fans of complex, smokey grey/brown inks. The latest release of Cigar sold out in less than 4 days. Incredibly difficult to photograph accurately due to its seemingly ever-changing colour!

All the Sailor inks above have lovely sheen, if that's your thing. The attached photo is fairly close to how I see the colours IRL. They are actually slightly richer in tone.

If you'd like 2 samples of your choice, please reply in this thread, stating which 2 inks you'd like.

I'll close this PIF at 7pm (Australian EST) which is 10am British Summer Time, on Tues 5th May. Winner to be drawn at random from entries I put into the electronic hat. I'll post world-wide at my expense, but delivery may take a while as I'm currently staying in Australia.

migo984

[Lady Onogaro]

Migo,

I would love to try Joyful-2 and Maruzen Athena Nihombashi Kirin (if I win the PIF). Thanks for the PIF!

(But I would not mind the Sailor Stationery Box Blue or the Blackstone Blue at all.)

[wangminze]

I'd like to try for Stationary Box Blue and Purple Heart. Thanks!

[akapulko2020]

I would love to sample the Pen and Message Sigar ink & the Maruzen Kirin ones. Thanks for an awesome PIF.

[Empty_of_Clouds]

Pen & Message Cigar and Maruzen Athena Kirin would be my choices. Having said that though, if there are more entrants than samples please remove my name from the list. And finally, I have been searching the internet for Maruzen Athena inks but have had no luck in finding a supplier - perhaps my Google-Fu is not up to scratch these days. Anyway, if anyone has a link to an online supplier I would really appreciate it.

[migo984]

Pen & Message Cigar and Maruzen Athena Kirin would be my choices. Having said that though, if there are more entrants than samples please remove my name from the list. And finally, I have been searching the internet for Maruzen Athena inks but have had no luck in finding a supplier - perhaps my Google-Fu is not up to scratch these days. Anyway, if anyone has a link to an online supplier I would really appreciate it.

You could ask Atsu Tanaka to obtain for you. PM me for his email address. He can get the standard Maruzen inks on your behalf, but they aren't cheap. Their Eternal Blue is wonderful (sadly I had to leave my bottle at home) as is Sepia. The Nihombashi inks in my PIF are sold out.

By the way, I'm putting your name into the hat for this PIF irrespective of how many enter. No arguments now Hehe :-)

[Empty_of_Clouds]

Oh, I'd like to argue but I doubt I would win.

I have found Atsu Tanaka... I never knew that such inks even existed. I have only tried Diamine, Lamy, one R&K and one Herbin, and some Private Reserve I was gifted elsewhere. I feel like such a rube when it comes to inks. People talk about manufacturers that I have never heard of. Anyway, I see Tanaka-san has these Kobe inks (whatever that is) and some of the colours look very interesting. Pricey, though I could probably go for one or two this year. I'll add the names to my list of inks I have yet to try... it's a very big list!

Thanks for the heads-up, and thanks to another FPG member who provided the email backchannel more or less at the same time.

[Crazyorange]

Thank you for a kind PIF
Please enter me for maruzen Athena and pen/message cigar.

[TerraNoir]

This is an amazing PIF. Thanks for offering it.

I would love to try out the Maruzen Athena Midori and Kirin please!!

[Haefennasiel]

Wow! Thank you for this wonderful and generous offer, migo984!

I would luvluvluv to try the Maruzen Athena Nihombashi Kirin and the Sailor Pen and Message Cigar inks, please.

[mhguda]

Lovely PiF. Thanks for offering!
I'd like to try the Stationary Box Blue and the Joyful 2 Purple Heart. (Actually I could name more inks but these would be my first choices).
All the inks look wonderful to me. Thanks so much for sharing!

[RayCornett]

I love unusual and hard to obtain Great pic and much appreciated.

I would love to enter and my choices are : Blackstone Blue and Pen and Message Cigar

[sparkinflint]

I would love to try Purple heart and Maruzen Athena Nihombashi Midori!

[Dr.Danger]

Cigar and Joyful2. Thank you for sharing!

[Frantik]

Very kind offer. I would like to enter for the Sailor Stationery Box Blue and the Pen and Message Cigar
Thanks for sharing

[irabelo]

Hey, migo984, lovely PIF!

I'd love to try out the blackstone blue and the joyful-2 purple heart!

- Igor

[fanosatchmo]

The two inks I would choose if I won are:

Maruzen Athena Nihombashi Kirin
Sailor Stationery Box Blue

[mikeal]

Very nice PIF. Thank you. Please count me in. I would love the Cigar and the jade inks.

[elaineb]

Thank you so much, Migo. I would love to try Joyful-2 and the Athena Maruzen in Jade. This is a great PIF!

[migo984]