Montblanc Toffee Brown

[OC Mike]

I just purchased a bottle of MB Toffee Brown and I think it is my favorite brown with Waterman Havana being a close 2nd. I used HP Premium Choice Laser Paper (32 lb.) for the review and although the shading wasn't that great with a BB nib, it is much more defined on Clairefontaine paper. I'm curious to know your preferences in brown inks.

[WOBentley]

Nice review, great color!

I recently acquired this and like it very much as a nice "darker medium" brown.

[OC Mike]

Nice review, great color!

I recently acquired this and like it very much as a nice "darker medium" brown.

 

Thanks! It appears as though our ink tastes are very similar!

[Essensia]

Great review. This is my favorite brown, too. Also thank you for your review of MB Lavender Purple; I've been looking for an excuse to try that one.

[OC Mike]

Great review. This is my favorite brown, too. Also thank you for your review of MB Lavender Purple; I've been looking for an excuse to try that one.

 

You're quite welcome! You'll enjoy the Lavender Purple as well.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I've only got it in one pen, a P-75 cisele M, right now.

 

It was the first real shading ink I had....I had MB Sepia and like it a lot now, then MB Toffee sent it to cobweb corner.

 

Using a regular nib,

Fine was light with dark trails.

Medium was 50-50 Breaking the M prejudice I'd picked up on this com.

Broad was dark with light trails.

 

I think your paper may be too heavy, it swallows your shading.

 

I've picked up a nice selection of Browns; MB Toffee, Sepia, Pelikan Brown, Herbin Lie de The`, Cafe` de Ilse, and DA Copper Brown...a nice shading red brown.

 

Living in Germany I decided to get German and French inks before I start looking at Diamine and

Noodlers will get call after I have my basic 50 local inks.

Out side the four or five noodlers I'll pick up in the States in January.

[OC Mike]

I've only got it in one pen, a P-75 cisele M, right now.

 

It was the first real shading ink I had....I had MB Sepia and like it a lot now, then MB Toffee sent it to cobweb corner.

 

Using a regular nib,

Fine was light with dark trails.

Medium was 50-50 Breaking the M prejudice I'd picked up on this com.

Broad was dark with light trails.

 

I think your paper may be too heavy, it swallows your shading.

 

I've picked up a nice selection of Browns; MB Toffee, Sepia, Pelikan Brown, Herbin Lie de The`, Cafe` de Ilse, and DA Copper Brown...a nice shading red brown.

 

Living in Germany I decided to get German and French inks before I start looking at Diamine and

Noodlers will get call after I have my basic 50 local inks.

Out side the four or five noodlers I'll pick up in the States in January.

 

Great information Bo Bo, thanks!

[Ad_Astra]

Living in Germany I decided to get German and French inks before I start looking at Diamine and

Noodlers will get call after I have my basic 50 local inks.

Out side the four or five noodlers I'll pick up in the States in January.

 

Sorry to hijack a little, but 50 or so local inks? What brands are we talking about?

[Joe in Seattle]

Private Reserve Chocolat is my fav, but your review reminds me I'be bought a bottle of Toffee and used it in my MB to good effect. I may have to dig it out again. Good review.

[Dimitrios_P]

Very good review.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Living in Germany I decided to get German and French inks before I start looking at Diamine and

Noodlers will get call after I have my basic 50 local inks.

Out side the four or five noodlers I'll pick up in the States in January.

 

Sorry to hijack a little, but 50 or so local inks? What brands are we talking about?

 

 

In my wallet is a small sheet with my top, shading inks. So when I go to my B&M I have an idea of what inks I want.

 

I'm really ignoring Italy. And Sheaffers from Slovakia.

 

De Atramentis (DA)@300, Pelikan (-6-8 not counting Edelstein inks), Lamy (@5), Mont Blanc (@7-8), Rohrer & Klingner @6-8 (R&K) are the German inks.

France makes, Waterman (@6) Herbin@20,

and a couple of French C/A inks(@8) are on my list. The Swiss Abraxus makes @8-10. I need the basic... Visconti Blue and Aurora black.

 

Sam recommended yet another French ink company...one for mixing... And I was over loaded with the ones I had on my plate.

 

 

It could be that Noodlers is second to De Atramentis in that Dr. Janson started making inks 25 (since 1988)years ago and has 300 inks in 57 colors.

As far as I can tell Franz-Josef don't believe like Nathan in cartridges either.

 

Diamine the worlds third largest in color of ink manufacture, makes alone more inks than were ever made before...and I doubt if they have 200....not in the same league as Noodler (300 or was it 400, I think some one said) and DA's 300.

 

DA has a lot of smelly inks...I'm not into that...just how good it writes....like MB Winter Forest smells a bit like Pinesol, and writes like a dream.

 

Then I see some wonderful Japanese shading inks...that make C/A inks look cheap.

Edited November 27, 2011 by Bo Bo Olson

[jandrese]

Nice review. I too like this ink. I used to like Waterman Havana Brown but have not used it in a long while. Caran'dAche Grand Canyon is nice, and shades nicely. Noodler's Beaver and Kiowa Pecan are nice but very dark and slow drying. Polar Brown is OK too. I also give a second to Private Reserve Chocolate. Brown inks rarely get a turn in my pens, but I'm always happy when the do.

 

Almost forgot the new one, Montblanc Carlo Collodi, which I love. I've had it for a week now and can't get enough. Blown through two fills already in a pen with a fine nib!

[BrandonA]

I love this ink.

 

I'm not a fan of it in this pen though. I personally like the MB Lavender, Black and Red inks in this pen.

 

This ink is the only ink I put into my Cervantes.

[raging.dragon]

Noodler's #41 is my favourite brown ink, but MB Toffee is in second place. I've used this ink in wet EF, F and M nibs, and like Bo Bo, I find it to shades nicely.

[Pen2009]

After reading many positive reviews on this ink, I bought 2 bottles. I only buy more than 1 bottle of ink when I feel comfortable using that particular ink for a long haul.

 

So far, I've been using this ink with my 146 and I am very pleased with this ink to say the least.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Collodi brown could have been called Collodi red just as easy,

I've not really tested it on a lot of nibs, perhaps two, and only a couple of papers.

 

I'll test it more later.

[nervium]

i bought it but i did not open the bottle yet, i do not have an empty pen for now and i do not like to spill the ink to the drain.