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Hey everyone! I inked up a pen with one of my last cartridges of MB Toffee Brown to see if I wanted to purchase a full bottle of it before the price hike / packaging switch / potential reformulation or discontinuation. The answer turned out to be no, but then I had a pen full of ink to get rid of. What better way to do that than a review amirite? This one is not as entertaining as my previous review. Blame the ink. It's not an entertaining ink! I also stopped halfway through the review because I had the bright idea to search for a solution to the Wateman Kultur nib dryout problem, and lo and behold, FPN answered (with "glue"). So I dropped everything, glued up my pen, and came back to this review two days later, hence the page break, and perhaps the slightly darker ink after the page break. n.B.: Lamy Safari caps fit on Waterman Kultur pens, in case you need to seal an inked pen in a pinch. This is the water test:

Hi, Recently, I'm playing with ink mixing using Sailor's STORiA inks. I find it really interesting, and I've got several nice results, such as a very bright orange color that almost looks like Fanta (by 1:1 mixing of "fire" red and "spotlight" yellow), a green-blue color that matches my Pilot 91 well (by 2:1 mixing of "ballon" green and "magic" purple), and a grey-ish blue (by 1:1 mixing of "ballon" green and "magic" purple)... But before yesterday, I hadn't tried to add black into the play. As I know brown is generally a dark orange, I am really curious to see if I can get some nice brown out of the STORiA inks. So here is my goal: a color that is similar to montblanc's toffee brown. Toffee brown is one of my favorite ink. It is a dark brown with a reddish tone. And here is what I get: Guess which brown fox is from montblanc, and which is from mixing Sailor inks? Here is the answer! I'm pretty satisfied Both lines are written with Lamy 2000 in fine nib, though the one with Sailor ink suffered from a bent nib a year ago. I fixed the nib, but it now writes a wider line. Here is the recipe. The basic idea is to first mix STORiA "fire" (red) and "lion" (light brown) to get a reddish orange color. Then I can add Sailor's Kiwa-Guro (black) ink to make it a dark brown. I didn't note down the accurate mixing ratio yesterday, and I haven't got time to reproduce it with accurate measuring, so the mixing ratio is just to give you a brief idea. It turns out that toffee brown is a pretty reddish brown, and a lot of red ink is needed. I started with a 2:1 ratio between "fire" (red) and "lion" (light brown). After adding the black ink, I found that I need to have more red ink to mimic the red tone of toffee brown. I eventually reached a 2.5 - 3 : 1 ratio between "fire" and "lion". Also note that "lion" is a light-brown / orange ink, so I think there is already some red in it. My guess is that I can also get "toffee brown" with "spotlight" (pure yellow) instead of "lion". In that case, I will need more "fire" ink. All the three inks used here are pigment-based inks, and as far as I know, mixing STORiA ink is fine. But I haven't waited for weeks to see if anything bad could happen (e.g., sediments / gas / fire / explosion / an event horizon appears). Take your own risk, and I'm not responsible for any damage from mixing these inks. And as we know, pigment-based inks are pretty water-resistant, and foxes love water [citation needed]... The last line is written with montblanc's toffee brown, and the rest are written with Sailor-version "toffee brown". And as foxes are such a weird creature (they always love to jump over dogs!), I smeared the drop of water to the right... Oops!

Okay, so I just bought a Jinhao 159 that came with a Goulet # 6 two-tone "M" nib and my plans are to use it for personal correspondence. Choices: Edelstein AVENTURINE Diamine POPPY RED Montblanc TOFFEE BROWN Waterman INTENSE BLACK I was thinking about Aventurine but a LONG letter in green sounds a bit much. OTOH, green is my favorite color and I like this one......but I STILL come back to it being overkill. Poppy Red is interesting because it is not that clownish or teacher's red, but it's STILL red. Hmmmmmmm MB toffee puts down a nice wet line and I like the color. The first pen I loaded it with had some issues, so I wonder if this may not be the way to go? W. Intense Black is another option, but black is black, right? I do have some Kon-Peki left, but a little of that goes a long way and I just emptied a pen with it. FINALLY, DA "Sherlock Holmes," but it seems pretty innocuous to me. Is the Green and/or RED too much of one thing or too little of another? Help a budding FP-lover out, will ya?

Hello community, I have a problem here. I have been using a Midori Traveler's Notebook for some time now and got myself a Montblanc pen recently...perfect combination, I thought. However, I am experiencing some problems here: the paper does not accept the ink every now and then. The nib slides across the paper and it seems like the paper was coated so that nothing wet stays on it...weird thing to desribe but I hope you understand what I mean. The effect is not everywhere on the paper...there seem to be some spots on a page where this occurs. Here are some facts about my "equipment": Montblanc 145pMidori refill #005 (Free Diary)Ink: Montblanc Toffee BrownHas anyone here ever heard of these problems? I though, Midori was a very ink-friendly paper...

This is a review of Montblanc's Toffee Brown ink. It's very similar to Visconti Brown/Sepia. A very nice ink. It was used on three different papers with a Belmont pen with a Binderized medium nib. There papers were: HP Laserjet 24lb, Mohawk via Linen 70# text weight, and Moleskine. The Montblanc Toffee Brown is a warm brown and is very similar to the Visconti brown/sepia in tone. In that regard, they are practically indistinguishable. The difference lies with the MB being a bit warmer in color temperature, and being quite a shady ink. It's in the lighter areas where the warmth really comes out. A very fuss-free ink at least in this pen. This ink is not as dark as Sailor Doyou which is like writing with an ebony twig or liquid chocolate. The MB comes in their classic 60 ml bottle. The ink does not stain the interior of the Belmont's clear barrel. Recommended. The following pic is a scan with the feature "text enhancement" turned ON. It gives a darker treatment to the ink than in reality. But the text is clearer I think. The following pic is a scan with the feature "text enhancement" turned off. It gives a more realistic depiction of the color, hue and tone of the ink. Here are photos from the iPhone, so no color correction, but the value for the ink may be good. On the Laserjet paper. On the Moleskine paper. On the via Linen paper. This is a page in a handmade notebook I made for myself. The black splotches on the right running vertically was from my printing the lines on the page. The printer (since tossed) was giving problems. And a chromatic evaluations. I don't know if the ink is made of a brown, with red and green accents, or if it is solely from dyes of red and green. My guess is the first. I think this ink will sheen given the way I saw it behave, but I don't have papers where that would happen.

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Hi, everyone! I am new to both - fountain pens and this forum. Sorry, if this has already been discussed, but I haven't found it on the forum. I recently bought my first fountain pen - a Montblanc Jonathan Swift with medium nib with Montblanc toffee brown ink. I was looking for a decent notebook which would be used both - for office notes and my personal ones. Moleskine seemed to be the perfect choice due to it's design and creamy paper colour. It turned out to be a disaster as I can use only one side of the notebook due to severe bleed-through of the ink. Please see the pic. http://s11.postimg.org/domcfwwir/image.jpg Please advise if all moleskines are like that or it is due to the choice of pen/ink. What substitute to moleskine would you recommend? I would rather change the notebook, then the pen . Do all monblanc inks have the same bleedthrough qualities or should I try another ink, maybe a non-montblanc one? thank you in advance! Dennis