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Bungubox Tokyo Metro Ink Set

Bungubox Tokyo Metro Ink Set

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From Bungubox, a specialty stationery store in Tokyo, Japan, these inks are inspired by the metro that runs through the capital city. Presented in 20-milliliter glass bottles, each of the nine inks is named for a different line on the subway map: Ginza (orange), Marunouchi (red), Hibiya (silver), Tozai (sky blue), Chiyoda (green), Yurakucho (gold), Hanzomon (purple), Namboku (emerald green), and Fukutoshin (brown) Read More

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Illegal_Aileen
0
Feb 1, 2019
US$99 for nine 20ml limited edition Sailor inks is great value. If you you could even buy them individually it would cost you heaps more!
Honeybadgers
371
Nov 27, 2018
Bungubox is an absolute joke these days. Garbage bottles, terrible value, decent ink. This stuff is nearly 4 times as expensive, per mL, as Noodlers. This entire set is barely two bottles of monteverde gemstone, which costs over $70 less. Sailor really needs to get their shit together and fix their terrible bottle design and stop increasing their price. Pilot managed to keep their same perfect bottle AND drop the price of their premium iroshizuku line by 30 goddamn percent last year. Do not buy this junk. Premium ink does not need to cost this much. Stop buying Bungubox, or Mont Blanc's special editions. If you want boutique, premium inks, birmingham ink, pilot iroshizuku, 3 oysters, Nemosine and lamy's limited edition Gemstone collection are all upwards of 3 times less expensive for extremely premium inks, all of which also come in better bottles than this crap.
STINGFAN
48
Nov 26, 2018
This not a good deal on ink...The Bungu Box inks are made by Sailor...Bungu Box dramatically raised their ink prices a year or so ago, and Sailor has recently raised their prices....there are equally as good inks available at much better value than Sailor or BunguBox. Waterman, 3Oysters, Taccia, Noodler's, Lamy, Rohrer and Klinger, Akkerman, Diamine, to name a few.
Jono2112
8
Aug 8, 2018
So, I like Sailor ink. But is this a good deal? $99USD? 20mL each? I’d love the opinion of someone who knows these inks as I’m a newbie to the fountain pen world!
Jono2112
8
Aug 11, 2018
Thank you that sounds like good advice. I need everyday ink for lab books and good ink for my high quality journaling. So far I have tried Sailor, Keweko, and Diamine. All seem to be good but the sailor is really smooth, opaque and my favorite.
CAAR
75
Aug 12, 2018
Jono2112Sailor is really good, it is just rising in price from what it was not that long ago. For basic stuff, some good options are Waterman Mysterious Blue, Aurora Black, and Shaffer Skrip Red; they are cheap, works on most paper (particularly as long as you are using a nib of western fine/Japanese medium or smaller), and are known to be really easy on a pen (and are fairly easy to clean). Pilot and Lamy's basic inks are also really good in this regard, particularly their blue-blacks. The Pilot Iroshizuku is a step up in price, now about the same per oz as Sailor (and cheaper than some Sailor lines) but is generally really good and includes some of my most used inks. If you want something that will work on just about any paper if you use a small nib, your best options are Sailor Kiwa-Guro/Nano Black and Platinum Classic Blue-Black. Both are the best behaved ink on paper I have ever used (though I normally don't like anything bigger than a Japanese FM) but there are some big caveats. The Nano Black is not a dye ink, so it is not totally water soluble. On the plus it makes it very resistant to water and it doesn't soak into cheap paper, but it does mean you have to stay on top on using any pen it is in and being good about cleaning it so it won't clog up. The Platinum Classic Blue-Black is the best behaved blue ink on cheap paper (it is blue when you write, and turns black over time, as was traditional with blue-blacks) but it is an iron gall ink, so you have to be very good about cleaning the pens not only because of clogging issues, but also because it will eat through some materials, plus, iron gall inks can rust over time, so don't use it for archiving. Platinum is a big company that has been making their inks for decades, so as iron gall goes, this is as safe as it is going to get, but by the same token, don't put it in a nice steel nib pen without knowing what you are doing first. The other downside of it, is that it is very hard to find bottles of it, so its difficult to use in anything but a Platinum or Nakaya.
willie2849
38
Aug 8, 2018
Why so costly?
Ryanne
0
Oct 17, 2018
willie2849Well, the set works out to $106USD if you buy it in a store in Tokyo. (I know, I had a friend buy it for me and mail it.) $99 isn't so bad in comparison. It's a special set, so the price is higher. That's really all it is. They're nice colours, but so are many other inks if you're worried about price.
jmccarty3
37
Aug 7, 2018
Bungubox doesn't make ink. Their extensive selection of inks is made by Sailor, and I suspect this collection is as well.
Honeybadgers
371
Nov 27, 2018
jmccarty3You would be correct, 100% of their inks are made by Sailor. They're also a hysterical ripoff.
These are so cool! I got a sneak preview of them when I visited the Bungubox shop in Tokyo and I'm glad to see them here on Massdrop. I love having unique colors of ink, but I don't always want a huge bottle of each one - this is a great chance to mix it up with some smaller bottles of a lot of different colors that have a special connection to a great city.
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