Caran D'ache Colours of the Earth

[CasmiUK]

Hi!

 

I won't call this an ink 'review' because I'm so new to this ink business about all I can say is "Oooooohhhhhhhh! Look at the pretty colours!"

 

Both of these wrote beautifully in the three pens that they are in - they didn't seem too wet or too dry - like Baby Bear they were 'just right!'

 

I will get a great deal of pleasure using these inks (and have already asked for others in this series for Christmas!).

 

The colours in the scan looked right on my computer so I have attached the photo below.

[OldGriz]

I am real curious to see how the Saffron looks after a while in your pen.....

Every ink of that color range that I have tried seems to have darkened and thickened in the pens I tried them in... it got so bad that a wet writing Pelikan 200 with a .8 Binder stub started writing real dry and then started skipping and the color was no where near the original. And it was in the pen for less than a month.

[CasmiUK]

In the interests of science - well, of ink interest anyway - I will leave it in my pen and in six weeks or so post another scan of the ink.

 

I'm curious now!

[mholve]

The Saffron is gorgeous! Reminds me of Noodler's Apache Sunset. Wow.

[chupie]

OH lord. It isn't like I don't have these colors in Noodler's but I'm horrbily tempted to just buy the lot of these. Anyone have scans of the other colors? the brown or the "Sunset"?

[Carrie]

I think both of those look lovely. You'll have to write me a letter using one or both of those. I wonder how similar in colour the Saffron is to the Sun Never Sets. As you'll figure out when my letter arrives, I'm in the mood for orange ink at the moment.

[Mr.Rene]

How much does each bottle cost there?

hire in Chile is U$15.20 each !!! Very expensive for a little bottle of 30 c.c.

Regards,

Rene

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[saintsimon]

How much does each bottle cost there?

hire in Chile is U$15.20 each !!! Very expensive for a little bottle of 30 c.c.

Regards,

Rene

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Here in Europe the new Caran d'Ache inks are overpriced, too: € 9.90 = $ 13.

 

CdA took the chance to almost double their ink prices, when they changed their ink maker and colour range recently

[CasmiUK]

As these were part of a birthday gift, I didn't purchase them and didn't like to ask how much they were.

[Inkanthropist]

How much does each bottle cost there?

The Pen Shop was selling them for £7.95 (about $15.50/€11.85) when I bought a bottle back in October. Expensive, yes, but such a pretty bottle and colour :)9

 

Neil

[jack frost]

I just found a bottle of the Caribbean on EBay for... oh jeez with conversion it'd be nearing twenty-five bucks. I'm so tempted.

 

I always find beautiful inks for sale and then come back here hoping I'll find a review to make me hold off on buying them, but you guys usually end up encouraging this ink hoarding habit I'm developing.

 

That said, I wonder what a side-by-side comparison of Caribbean and Colfer's Antilles would reveal. I'm going to end up with both, I just know it.

Edited December 21, 2006 by jack frost

[OldGriz]

That said, I wonder what a side-by-side comparison of Caribbean and Colfer's Antilles would reveal. I'm going to end up with both, I just know it.

Having tested the Colfer's Antilles in all three dilutions, I would say that in any of the dilutions (I prefered the 4:1) it is going the be almost the same color... and a whole lot cheaper... The ready to use ink is diluted to 4:1 so you can further dilute it if you wish.

[Leigh R]

This is a repost from another thread, but just so you guys can see how CdA Saffron works in a Sheaffer with a factory stub:

 

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d138/leighpod/intherain.jpg

[CasmiUK]

Damn! Wish my handwriting looked like that!

 

Thanks!

 

Casmi

[DilettanteG]

Thanks for the great review; it's amazing what a difference the nib width makes. I just picked up a lot of these inks on eBay for about 1/2 of the retail price, but no Caribbean Blue or Saffron. It looks like I'll be popping over to Art Brown to buy the former. I'm a sucker for blue-greens.

 

http://www.artbrown.com/Caran-dAche-Inks-C187.aspx

 

(No relation to this shop other than as a satisfied customer. I picked up their exclusive Noodler's Legal Blue some time back.)

 

At $16.80 a bottle they aren't cheap, but the bottles are absolutely gorgeous! They'll be replacing the Mont Blanc Inks I usually keep on my desk (great bottle, sucky ink.)

Edited December 27, 2006 by DilettanteG

[Leigh R]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/336239171_03d20e1940_o.jpg

 

It was difficult to make all the colors behave in a single scan!

Storm is a touch darker in real life, without the yellowish overtones.

Grand Canyon is a rich, dark brown with hardly any red tones, the capital Q at the beginning of the sentence is very close.

 

I wish I had Caribbean, but getting these required a hop on a plane to Bangkok... Caran d'Ache has art materials here, but no fountain pens or ink.

[Inkanthropist]

Oh, that's simply beautiful! I think I'm going to need a bottle of Storm pretty soon. It looks a bit like Noodler's Nightshade -- one of my favourite colours -- on my screen.

 

Thanks for the glorious scan.

 

Neil

Edited December 28, 2006 by NeilB

[CasmiUK]

Here is a scan of the Saffron after a couple of months in the Pelikano (medium nib).

 

It does seem to be taking a bit longer to dry now, depending on the paper. It's been quite a while in my Red and Black notebook and it still isn't dry. However, on the cheaper office stationery shorthand notebook (Connect brand) it dried almost instantly!

[Jlgreer]

The colors are gorgeous the only concern I have is some of the Caran D'Ache inks have a pH of 2.8 (Carribean Sea), 2.6 (Blue Sky), 3.2 (Amazon).

 

That is pretty acidic. I am wondering what it might do to my pens?

[SamCapote]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/336239171_03d20e1940_o.jpg

 

It was difficult to make all the colors behave in a single scan!

Storm is a touch darker in real life, without the yellowish overtones.

Grand Canyon is a rich, dark brown with hardly any red tones, the capital Q at the beginning of the sentence is very close.

 

I wish I had Caribbean, but getting these required a hop on a plane to Bangkok... Caran d'Ache has art materials here, but no fountain pens or ink.

 

Even more impressive is how breathtaking your penmanship artistry is. I get so jealous of people who can write like an angel.