Black of Score – Bung Box (Sailor)

Sailor is my favourite ink maker (ex-aeque with J. Herbin). Sadly their most interesting inks are available only in Japan or from internet retailers. There are few japanese shops famous for their wide and interesting range of Sailor inks. One of most well-known is Bung Box. A lot of people were taken by interesting bottles and intriguing colors. It seems however that recently many ink enthusiasts started to shy away from this line since Bung Box inks became much more bitterly expensive than other Sailor inks.

The line consists of quite a few colors. My list is incomplete and most of the names aren’t translated well. If you have full list of BB inks and/or could gheklp me with correcting english names, help me sort this out 

1. 4B Blue/Black
2. BB Espresso
3. Dandyism
4. Emerald
5. Enshu Black
6. First Love Sapphire
7. Fresh Oranges of Lake Hamana
8. Fuyiyama Blue
9. Hamanako Eel
10. Imperial Purple
11. Ink of the Witch
12. L’Amant
13. Luminous Green
14. Melancholic Gray
15. Mocha
16. Music Black
17. Nostalgia
18. Oamezaki Sunset
19. Omaezaki Ocean
20. Omaezaki Blue
21. Orange
22. Pink
23. Ruby
24. Sapphire
25. Silent Night
26. Soleil
27. Tears of Clown

Before I write few words about the ink allow me to start by saying thank you mmg122 for sending me samples of different inks.

From what I heard Black of Score used to be called Music Black some time ago. If it’s true you have two reviews in one. If it’s wriong than it’s Music Black.

I don’t have a lot to say about this ink. It behaves very well, doesn’t cclog the pen, I haven’t seen any feathering even on cheaper papers. The color though has nothing special to it. It’s black. Not the blackest one but strong nevertheless. If you enjoy blacks and are ready to pay crazy amount of money for a bottle, why not? If however you don’t collect black inks J. Herbin’s Perle Noire, Aurora’s Black, Rohrer & Klingner Leipziger Schwarz, Octopus Schwarz nad Kyonooto Nurebairo’s are great reasonably prices alternatives.

Ink splash

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Tomoe River, 90 g – Kaweco Sport Classic, B

Leuchtturm1917, Lamy Al-Star, Broad

Cheap no-name notebook, Kaweco Classic Sport, broad nib

Water resistance