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== Blue Black Ink Review ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Four. Four. I tried to buy five. One of them was out of stock. The pink one was out of stock. Because I think I don't love these inks for at least the ones that I pick, right? So this is a whole conversation just about ink that I don't even know that I want to have in detail. But just this ink collection is 100 inks. And I went in. Oh, my gosh. There's some really unique and fun and interesting inks that came out of this series. And I picked some that kind of fall in line with the things that I like. So I bought a blue, black, an orange, a bright green. I tried to buy a pink. That's the one they didn't have. And a purple. Like, those are all my favorite ink colors. And, you know, I swabbed them up and took a look at them. And I was like, yeah, they're fine. But the 941 is the blue, black one. That one really stuck because it matches the 1911 4AM, which, you know, I really like that pen, Myke. I wasn't sure I was going to like it. And I've gone back and forth on a lot of these sailors over the years where we see in pictures and think they're great. And I see them in person and they're not so much. And this one I saw in pictures. Wasn't sure it was great. See it in person. Loved it. This one is like the Royal Tangerine, right? It looks okay in pictures, but maybe not for me. Then I see it in person. I was like, yeah, this is the one where on the opposite side of the ledger, like the lime green one they did, I thought it was going to be fantastic. But it just didn't land in person. So this ink matches up perfectly to the 941. I love it. One thing I didn't mention in my review in retrospect, I forgot. Is in these Sailor Ink Studio bottles, they give you this little sticker sheet. So I can put a little 941 label on my ink converter. So I know what's in there. So I did that, which I think is kind of dumb and cool at the same time. So I need to take a picture of that. So I have a little 941 sticker stuck on my Sailor Ink converter inside the 1911 4AM pen. But the reason I did that review first is because it's the ink I've been using the most. I'm definitely going to review the other colors I bought because I want to see if I'm missing something, right? I want to see if there's a reason that, you know, I chose these inks and why they're so popular. Even though these are not the most outlandish inks of that lineup. Like the Sailor 123, which Susan has reviewed on the blog in the past and I did, I bought one to give away, is the highlight ink for those 100 inks. Because it's such a different color, it has different sheens and shading. I just don't want to write with it. Like I think it looks cool and looks amazing. So maybe I just need to branch out more in this lineup. So instead of kind of getting the basics, which is what I did this time, you know, I failed on my year of experimentation theme in buying things I assumed I would like. And I'm not let down by that, but they're not special and I want them to be special. Does that make sense?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I understand. This does look like a great blue black though.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is a really good color. I'm very, very much enjoying this color. I wonder if I'm going to be able to say that about the other three inks I still have to test.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But this is a great color. Very happy with 941. Very happy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Explain something to me in the image that you've got here. The converter says 941 on it. Right? Yeah. Did I put that one in there? Yeah. What is going on there?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's the sticker. They put the stickers in there. I couldn't remember if I put that in there or not. Where is it? It's right at the very bottom. Oh. Yeah. So it comes with a sticker. In the box when you buy the ink, the little bitty box, there's this little sticker sheet. And I didn't know what it was at first. I was like, oh.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Now that is freaking awesome. Every single ink manufacturer should do that. So it gives you three of them too. It's so good. That's such a good idea. So there's three little 941 peel-offs. Because I have like a million orange inks, right? But they are all slightly different. And I can never remember which pen has which orange in it. And so I would love to have a little label that I could just put on them without me needing to make it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's really good. That's genius. I was very impressed with that. First, I thought, I was like, what is this? Why do I have all these 941 stickers on the sheet in Japanese that I can't read? And then I kind of looked at the imagery of it. And it's like, oh, you put this on your converter so you know what inks that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And it looks cool in the 4AM because you can see right through it. And you see 941.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I didn't even notice that. I didn't think I had taken a picture of that. And now that you've pointed that out, I can totally see it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It looks good. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're cool. They're cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like them. You said, like I saw this on Instagram too, it's a good pairing. And I agree. These two, that ink and that pen look fantastic together. Yeah. It's right on the money.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's almost like it was made for it. And that was an accident. Yeah. I bought them independent of each other. Right? I didn't buy one for the other. I didn't buy the ink for the pen. But I knew once I bought the ink, I was like, oh, this will go perfectly with the 4AM.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. It's perfect. Like, this is like one of those ones where you pick that pen up and you just, it's almost like a, it sounds weird. But there's some pens where like they're such a good match. It almost feels like you're using a crayon. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's like the outside is on the page. It's a very peculiar feeling. Exactly. But a good one when you can get a match like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it doesn't happen all the time. Like, I tried to do match things or do, you know, things that kind of go well together. Like, that's my thing. I don't, you know, I do like lean into that a little bit. But this one came out better than I thought.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.