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What Do Egg and Puffer Fish Japanese Erasers Have In Common? |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 |
  Dream Zensinsyoji latest version of the egg Japanese erasers arrived with a orange yolk. The egg Japanese eraser on the right, is the older version and has the yellow yolk.
This color change made us wonder. We remember that duck eggs have orange yolks. We also know that duck eggs are not used in Japanese cooking. We suspect that the new color variation of the egg Japanese food erasers is just Dream Zensinsyoji not carefully matching their colors in production and not trying to make duck egg Japanese erasers.
We have seen Dream Zensinsyoji make these color change before with their Japanese  erasers.  Currently, we are getting 2 versions of the puffer fish Japanese erasers. The color of the dark orange puffer fish Japanese eraser is pretty close to the color of the orange yolk Japanese egg erasers.
We are also getting a lighter version of the puffer fish Japanese eraser.
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Do Not Look So Worried, The Iwako Pig Japanese Erasers Will Be Here Tomorrow |
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
 The Iwako Pig Japanese erasers will arrive Thursday May 20 sometime in the afternoon, if Fed Ex does it´s job. So hopefully, by the late afternoon we will have everything posted.
That could change however. When the Just Hatched Dinosaur erasers arrived, we found that the pre-production samples were the same except for the Green Dinosaur Japanese eraser which was not included in the production Japanese erasers.
We will know tomorrow. If there are any changes, we will let you know.
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How To Make Your Own White Cow Japanese Eraser |
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010 |
  A eraser fan suggested that you can take the Black and White Iwako Cow and combine it with one of the colored cow Japanese erasers, you can create a all white cow Japanese eraser.
In the picture, we took the white back of the Black and White Cow Japanese eraser and replaced the pink back, creating a all white Iwako cow eraser.
When the White Hamster Iwako Japanese eraser  and the White Horse Japanese eraser become avavalible, you will be able to start your own  white eraser collection.
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We Deliberately Do Not Order Enough Purple Cow Erasers |
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Sunday, 16 May 2010 |
 A frustrated customer wanted to know why we had not restocked the Iwako Purple Cow Japanese erasers.
As you may already know, Iwako packs their Japanese erasers in a 60 piece master box. Some Japanese erasers come in assortments, so we may get, say, 10 per style of 6 different colors the Iwako Cow Erasers.
When the Japanese erasers are packed this way, we have no ability to replenish a color that sells out quickly without buying a lot of the other colors that we may not need. Iwako packs some of their 60 piece master boxes with only one type of Japanese eraser, such as the upcoming All White Hamster Series 2, which we are guessing will be very popular. The Iwako Cow Japanese erasers come only in a mixed color assortment.
It is not that the Iwako Purple Cow is any more wildly popular than the other colors. A customer bought all our inventory.
We do not like to frustrate our customers, but retailing so many different styles of Japanese erasers, we must be careful not to overstock our Japanese eraser inventory.
We do special order some specific colors of Japanese erasers from Iwako such as the Green Frog Japanese eraser, or the Red, White or Blue Basketball Japanese Eraser, but we need to order quite a few. We do not sell enough of the Purple Cow Japanese erasers to order specially from Iwako.
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Iwako Pig Japanese Erasers Arrive the Week of May 17 |
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Sunday, 16 May 2010 |
 The Iwako pig Japanese erasers will arrive sometime during the week of May 17.
As our usual practice, we will make the Iwako pig erasers available as a complete 6 pig eraser set and individually.
So even if our green pig friend looks worried about his arrival next week, you do not need to be.
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Rich Erasers and Ritz Crackers |
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Sunday, 16 May 2010 |
 Found in the 1 to 40 Erasers category at sausalitoferry.com is the Rich cracker erasers. Vanilla scented, each Rich box contains 2 stacks of cracker erasers.
The package design for the
 Rich cracker eraser box is very close to the Ritz cracker box. Of course, this is deliberate. People are more likely to buy something familiar.
 As often is the case with small factories in China, the package does not reflect accurately what is enclosed within. Pictured on the package is round crackers, but enclosed are rectangular biscuits. The vanilla scented Orao cookie erasers would be a better fit for the Rich box.
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New Iwako Japanese Eraser Catalog Volume 3 |
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Saturday, 15 May 2010 |
 We have available Volume 3 Iwako catalog. It contains pictures of 527 Iwako and Dream/Zensinsyoji Japanese erasers.
The catalog has pictures of all the Japanese erasers that will be available through July of this year.
It does not cover the color variations and some of the older styles such as the primary color bowling ball sets that can be found on sausalitoferry.com.
Also pictured in the catalog is an empty Iwako master box that contains 60 Japanese erasers. The red master box is what the erasers come in from Iwako. We do not sell them, though sometimes we use them to ship Japanese erasers to customers.
We do not sell them as we ship almost all our Japanese eraser orders for a flat rate of $4.95 via the US Postal Service Priority Mail. Because the Japanese erasers are small and hardly weigh anything, we can take advantage of this speedy shipping service. Transit times are usually 3 to 4 working days to the East Coast from our West Coast Sausalito location.
If we sold the empty Iwako master boxes, and we have plenty of empty ones, they would be $1.00 each. Because the Iwako master boxes are bigger than the $4.95 boxes we use to ship the Japanese erasers, we must use the medium Priority shipping box, which requires a $10.40 shipping label. That cost of shipping makes the cost of the Iwako master boxes expensive beyond the $1 cost we would charge for them. We can only fit 3 of the Iwako master boxes in a medium Priority shipping box.
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Does Anybody Really Use Iwako and Dream/Zensinsyoji Erasers for Erasing? |
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
When we  were in elementary school and had to write with big chubby pencils the diameter of your finger, we had Pink Pearl erasers. Making many writing mistakes that required much erasing, we reduced many a Pink Pearl eraser to eraser dust.
If you did not have the right erasing technique, the Pink Pearl eraser would pick up the some of the pencil graphite onto the eraser itself. The next time you would need to erase an error, the Pink Pearl eraser would lay a huge black smudge over what you were trying to correct only compounding the mess. No wonder we took to the keyboard as soon as we could.
So as we were taking pictures of these snow white Iwako horse and hamster erasers, I began to wonder if the Iwako and Dream/Zensinsyoji Japanese erasers had the same bad erasing characteristics?
We will do a test and post the results shortly.
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A Behind the Scene Look at the Iwako Horse Japanese Erasers |
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
  A white envelope with pre-production horse Japanese erasers enclosed arrived from Iwako yesterday. We had already received horse animal eraser samples earlier, taken photos and posted them on the site. We expect delivery of these animal Japanese erasers sometime in June.
Upon closer inspection, we realized the mane of the yellow and pink Japanese horse erasers were a different color. The first pre-production sample set had dark brown manes, but in the second set, the pink and yellow horse erasers had beige manes.
So this second color of the horse eraser manes set us wondering. How are the horse erasers going to come packed in the Iwako 60 Japanese eraser master box? We do not know. We took pictures of the beige mane Iwako horse erasers and posted them on the site. Once we know what the eraser assortments are, we will update the site.
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We Were Misinformed About Limited Edition Hamster Japanese Erasers |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 |
We were brimming with excitement about the Limited Edition Hamsters. A short, one shot production run by Iwako, leaving us with a Hamster Japanese Eraser inventory that would last only a few days before it sold out. Then no more. Ever.
We find out today, that the so called "Limited Edition Hamster Erasers" are actually not going to be limited edition but a continuing production know as Series 2 Hamsters.
12 color versions will be available. The 60 piece eraser master box from Iwako will probably contain 5 of each color of the hamster erasers.
Iwako will also make a 60 piece Japanese eraser box that will contain only white hamster Japanese erasers as this color will be the most popular.
We are a bit embarrassed about our faulty information about Limited Edition Hamster Japanese erasers that we wrote about in earlier posts. We will have to do a more thorough job of checking our sources.
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