After my previous Bungubox ink review, I realize that people spell it all manner of ways. The official name for it is Bungubox, but I have also seen it as: Bungu Box, Bungbox, Bung Box, Bung-Box, etc. For the purposes of these reviews I will start calling it simply Bungubox.
These inks have amazing qualities and I can never get enough of them. I am usually not one for red inks, but I just couldn’t resist trying a Bungubox red.
For this review I inked my Pilot Custom 74. Great pen, with a nice wet line. The only thing that sucks about it is the converter, blah!
As you can see it is quite a bright red, even in the bottle and pen. Such a happy color! ^_^
It was even a pleasure to see this one on the nib:
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Line going down on CF Paper, and yes I totally did accidentally dot an “R” lol don’t judge me ^_^:
It is a truly fabulous bright red with orange tones and SHEEN. The flow was great as well, the only thing that I thought was missing was the amazing Bungubox shading thats usually present. There is some shading but nothing overwhelming. Upon seeing this color I was reminded of another Japanese ink, Pilot Iroshizuku Momiji, so I decided to do a short comparison.
Both are beautiful red inks that sheen, although Momiji seems to have a darker base color. There seem to be more orange tones in the Bungubox Lycoris Red than the Momiji.
There is a significant difference in price. The Bungubox ink was $43.00 with free shipping from Vanness, and the Momiji I found for around $18.00 shipped from Amazon. It is worth mentioning that the Momiji was shipped directly from Japan and therefore took quite a while to get here, the Bungubox ink got to me in less than a week. Even if I were to have gotten the Pilot Iro ink here though, the price would have been around $28.00, much less than a Bungubox ink.
I believe this inks are different enough to warrant getting both, it is nice to have a red with and without that neon type quality that the Lycoris has.
January 5, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Wonderful inks … both. What kind of lighting do you use to show the sheen? It’s terrific. Usually it’s so hard to make gold sheen to show.
I have a feeling those inks wouldn’t be for me as a leftie 😀
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January 5, 2017 at 2:07 pm
aww yes I have heard about the leftie challenges when it comes to ink. These inks tend to take a bit longer to dry as well, especially with a wet line on Tomoe paper.
For this I just used room lighting, it wasn’t out in the sun or anything. I think that the trick is the camera, like the mode and the angle etc. Its really hard to capture sheen, but these blobs had so much of it that it was a pleasure to shoot! ^_^
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January 5, 2017 at 2:09 pm
I tried with the Edelstein Turmaline, which has a nice, gold sheen. Tried both with the iPhone and the real camera, but can’t say I had much luck. I get easily fed up too LOL
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January 5, 2017 at 2:14 pm
ooo which iPhone? I take most of my photos using my iPhone as well, and they mostly come out ok. I want to delve into SLR but I’m afraid I would start carrying it around everywhere. I have an older SLR in the house somewhere but I don’t know where it is lol.
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January 5, 2017 at 2:17 pm
Mine is an iPhone6+. Going to upgrade next time. I got into DSLR 2009. I’ve lugged those big, bulky cameras around so much now and I’m tired of it. Most iPhone photos come out alright, but it still not the same. My camera is a Nikon D7000.
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January 5, 2017 at 2:20 pm
Neat! I have the 7+, I had the 6+ as well, but I think the camera upgrade is totally worth it. I’ve gotten some pretty nice shots of pens lol, probably helps that they are mostly closeup and photogenic ^_^.
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January 5, 2017 at 2:20 pm
Yes! LOL I’m just about to write about one of my latest [very photogenic] purchases 🙂
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January 5, 2017 at 2:22 pm
Can’t wait to see your review ^_^ I was supposed to have some pen mail today but it didnt come 😦 So I will have to live vicariously!
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January 5, 2017 at 2:24 pm
Oh, I was waiting too, today, and they didn’t ring the buzzer … the slapped a sticky note on the door. I was so MAD …
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January 5, 2017 at 2:35 pm
There … it’s up: http://wp.me/p865PK-40
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January 5, 2017 at 3:43 pm
They both have complex and compelling components.
You like the sheen in the red, right?
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January 5, 2017 at 3:44 pm
Yes I do! Well I like sheen in just about anything lol!
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January 5, 2017 at 4:08 pm
I knew that! 😛
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January 5, 2017 at 9:53 pm
The sheen is pretty cool, but the color does nothing to me 🙂
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January 5, 2017 at 9:54 pm
I love the sheen! I don’t think I would have went for this ink if it didn’t have it. I don’t really need a plain neon red lol.
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April 19, 2017 at 7:53 am
Another super cute one that I own but haven’t yet tried. It’s still a comfort to know there’s a bottle tucked safely into one of my ink boxes, though. 🙂
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