FPN's Galileo Manuscript Brown

[SteadyHand]

Here it goes:

 

To emphasize my point, I like it. My first preference are colors like the Toulipe Noire, though.

Thank you for patience in reading my chicken scratch.

 

 

Edited November 26, 2007 by SteadyHand

[greencobra]

I just got a bottle myself with the Toulipe Noire order. I never thought much of it the first time around but now it appeals to me for whatever reason. My ink tastes change rapidly some days. Haven't used it yet but the smear I made of it tonight looked interesting as did your review. I see you used an EF so I expect it will be close with my Fs. Nice review.

[HyperCamper]

Nice review! Furthermore, where is this "chicken scratch" you speak of?

[I am not a number]

Thanks for the review! I was slightly concerned that ordering some of this ink might have been a mistake, but seeing it in action has just made me impatient for it to arrive...

 

And your hand is far from a Chicken Scratch!

[jenik]

Not only is Galileo a great colour it has almost perfect flow properties in my pens and seems to work great with most (variable quality) papers. Can we have more of such inks? Please?

[SteadyHand]

Same ink with a very wet stub-not the same reaction.

[Pengrump]

Jeez, my new bottle of Galileo Manuscript Brown contains much, much, much redder ink than this. At first I didn't even think it was brown. And yes, I did shake the bottle.

[PAKMAN]

Nice review, Thanks!! I am still patiently waiting on the new Blue to come out so I can get my Blue, Brown and Tulip in one shipment. I'm begining to wish I had not opted to go this route!!

[Phthalo]

GMB is a very reddish-brown ink, and I'm not a fan of it, personally. One of the bottles I ordered last year cracked in transit... I didn't have time to fool with it, so I dumped the contents into an airtight bag... the result could have easily passed for a blood bag.

[HDoug]

Nice review, nice scans, nice handwriting! Thanks for posting.

 

I ordered a bottle of GMB with a bottle of Dumas Tulipe Noire (hereinafter DTN) and although redder than I expected, it has become a favorite of mine. It seems like a less red (or more brown) version of Noodler's Swishmix Burgundy, but it's 100% bulletproof (I think, haven't tested).

 

It has failed in making my journal pages look like Galileo's, but that may be due to differences in form and content.

 

Doug

 

P.S. I haven't even opened the bottle of DTN yet. When I ordered it, I thought it was a bulletproof ink (I just saw "Noodler's" and assumed...). I may keep it unopened because the label is so nice and a bottle anything with intact contents is destined to become a collector's item. You know, like those Coca Cola bottles from Pompeii...

[Melnicki]

Galileo bleeds pink (!!) just like Walnut does, when wet. An interesting concept, a pink-brown... However (unlike Walnut) after bleeding, the color is mostly intact. (Walnut turns into black when wet)

Edited December 16, 2007 by Melnicki

[Silas]

After receiving my FPN order of Galileo Manuscript Brown, I promptly filled my Parker Vacumatic Brown and Gold pen because I thought it would be a great match.

I had Richard Binder put a cursive italic on this nib and previously had it filled with Pelikan Brillian Brown which I and the pen really liked.

 

To my surprise, the pen flowed much, much, more heavily than before. It was a perfect wet writer with the Pelikan ink but this ink was flowing too fast for me to keep up with (as with the Bexley stub above)

 

And then, someone mentioned that this ink would possibly stain the inside of the pen so that I might not be able to see through it.

 

Anyone have any proof of this? I also put some in my Pelikan 400NN vintage pen.....writes well in it but what about the staining?

[handlebar]

I received a bottle of this ink a few weeks ago and was very happy with the colour! But i will say it is a very fluid ink.Never had an ink leak out of my Tryphon before! So i cleaned up and tried it in my Visconti Van Gogh Tortoiseshell with great success.

I don't dare use it in my Omas Paragon :lol:

 

Otherwise,a nice shade of reddish brown.And it dries very quickly.I really admire that.

 

Jim

[MinasTirithScribe]

My bottle is a very orangey brown (even after shaking to try to resuspend the visible red-orange deposits) and when I got some on my hand during pen filling, the brown component washed off but a pink-orange stain was durable on skin. I wonder if it has any dyes in common with Dragon's Napalm?

 

In writing with a fine Hero nib, it came out a henna-like rust-red-orange-brown. I'll be interested to see what happens with a Speedball italic dip pen!

 

Both this and Tulipe Noire have simultaneously outstanding smoothness in writing and less feathering (on my office's bibulous high-volume printer paper) than the R&K and PR inks I habitually use.

[gregkoos]

I found that it was too wet for my flex nib Eversharp but it has turned a $20 Pilot M nib into a thing of wonder. That little guy ius getting a lot more use!