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== Sailor Ink Studio ==


'''Guest:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, Sailor Ink Studio, Myke. I picked out a handful of colors. I had zero other than a couple of samples. And I knew I would be able to get some of Dromgools.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is the ink that I learned about mostly from Adina. Like I knew that it existed, but I mostly ignored it because it's like an incomprehensible naming scheme. It's just like, they're just numbers and that's it, right? And that doesn't work for my brain, especially when it comes to ink. But the Sailor Ink Studio is like, this is where Sailor will allow for companies to create their own inks in the same way they allow them to create pens. And then the ones that they think are the nicest combinations, they release under the Sailor Ink Studio line. But they are typically just three-digit numbers are the names of the inks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, there are a hundred inks in this lineup. There is some rhyme or reason to the numbering convention of this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm sure there has to be because if there's only a hundred inks, but one of them scored 941, then there has to be a code, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. But we don't have enough time on this podcast to lay that out. So, we have some good links in the show notes that I used when I was shopping for mine. One mountain of ink. Kelly did a swab sampling of all 100 inks. Whoa.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What a beautiful image on that page.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, Yagen at Macchiato Man also did the same thing. Did a hundred swabs and broke down the naming numbering convention as best as possible. So, if you want to figure out why they're numbered, how they're numbered, he takes a crack at it. Because it's not official, right? He just, he basically sorted it out as best as he could. And it made a lot of sense. But, yeah, you'll have to go read that. And we'll put the link in the show notes. Because these are two great resources for these inks. And that's what I used to pick out these swabs. I had both their sites pulled up. And I just kind of scrolled through and looked at, if I was on one site, I'd find a color that interested me. Then I'd go to the other site to see if they kind of had the same representation of the swab. And if I felt that that was like a good choice for me. So, out of these ink colors I picked, I wrote down five. I came home with four of them. So, 450 is a purple. 767 is a bright green. 941 is kind of a tealish blue-black. And 773 is an orange. So, I sampled them on stream yesterday. And I love the 941. Which, shocker, is the blue-black with teal. That's what I have inked up in my 4AM. It has a lot of character when I was doing the swab. And then that was about it. I wasn't like head over heels with the rest of them. Which means I need to test them out more in pens. So, the 450 purple was a little bit brighter than I was thinking was going to be. But it's really pretty. It's not as bright as something like Imperial purple. But I like a dustier purple.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' 767 is a good bright green. I want to try that against Graf von Faber-Castells Viper Green. I think 731 has more yellow in it. I want to try that. And 773 is like the super hot popular orange. And it is really red in my samples. Which, I don't really care for red oranges. So, I want to ink that up and try it in some pens. And see what the effect gets. So, you know, I think. I don't know. I may just end up keeping one of these inks. The 941. And giving these away. And I got four more ink colors. Which I didn't even write down to give away. So, Dylan, the ink sommelier. Okay. At Drom Ghouls. He is a big fan of the Sailor Ink Studio. So, I told him to pick out his four favorite colors. So, I'm going to give those away as well. So, look for more giveaways for Sailor Ink Studio. I just may be giving away some of my own stash. Because with ink, I have to want to use it more than what I already have. And the only one that I feel right now without more testing is 941. Which is a really pretty kind of blue-black. So, you know, do I need all these inks? No. Did they knock my socks off? No. So, I don't know that I'm like rushing out to try to dabble in more. I'll look at some more samples, right? This is the concept that brought us Sailor 123 ink. Right? So, that's the ink that made this entire ink studio lineup happen. Become a thing. Because it is such a different looking ink. And there's very few other inks in this 100 that live up to that. And, you know, there are a couple other ones that I would be interested in seeing. That are really out there. But this more standard ink.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have somehow never seen this ink. And that is bananas. Yeah. It's like purple-y green with some pink in it. Yeah. It's weird.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's weird, right? So, that's the ink. It probably sells two or three times more than any other ink. Because it's so different. Right? Anyone can get something probably pretty close to the 941 that I love. I probably have it in my closet of doom right now. Right? But there's nothing like 123 out there. So, it's just really neat. So, I brought home a bunch of inks. Brought home a bunch of inks. And including 123. So, that was one of Dylan's favorites, of course. And we'll be giving that away as well. So, yeah. There you go. That was my initial dalliance with Sailor Studio inks. And I'm just resoundingly average on them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sounds great.