Noodler's Ink: Golden Brown

[JefferyS]

Is the Diamine Sepia just slightly oranger?

[Bo Bo Olson]

Any one got this ink and Herbin Lie de The` or Cafe des Illes?

[Patrician]

Herbin Lie de Thé is darker and the contrast is more intense between the light and dark tones. Wonderful permanence and elegance.

Café des Îles is more reddish-brown, elegant shading, too.

Golden Brown is more gold, light, and needs a flexy wet pen to show its beauty, but I find the shading result not as pleasant and functional for everyday use as the previous ones. But very nice ink.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I had this ink delivered to my motel in the States; Virginia. Goulet got the order the night before I left and it was there the next day by 18:00 when I got there.

 

It is by far of my 32 inks, the slowest drying I have. Defiantly not an ink where one will write on the back of the page due to slow drying time.

 

In I just got home from the US I've not checked the ink out with a lot of nibs and papers, but it shaded nicely on Oxford Optic, in a semi-flex M. I will be checking it out in both a maxi-semi-flex/'flexi', and regular flex M and F; in that often a regular flex shows good shading also.

Edited May 5, 2012 by Bo Bo Olson

[mhphoto]

Excellent review! I've got a sample of both Golden Brown and Diamine Sepia on the way and I cant wait to try them out.

[defjus]

I want to second Yoda4561's sentiments about Golden Brown looking different from writing session to writing session - I've been using Golden Brown in my Twsbi 1.1 nib for a few months now and I never really know what to expect.

 

Sometimes I get really nice shading and color variation as in SIgnum's scans, other times it's a washed out golden yellow with very little shading.

 

Nevertheless, it doesn't deter me from using it.I still really like the ink.

 

I also find that sometimes the color changes quite a bit once dried. Yet, once again, I still really enjoy Noodler's Golden Brown.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Been a while since I used this ink....because of the slow drying. The inks showed too little to be worth it's dry time.

How Ever, a fine poster Angel Winged my Ahab nib with a Dremil....it is now an Easy Full Flex.
Before it was a flex nib with much pressure...ie semi-flex....which is a hell of a lot for a flex nib.
'Flexi'/maxi-semi-flex is the next step up. A well mashed regular flex, spreads it's tines 3 X a light down stroke. Semi-flex takes half that pressure and 'flexi' half of that. All three have a 3 X limit of tine spread...with out springing danger.

Full flex pens spread their tines 4-5-6 or even 7 X a light down stroke. Easy Full Flex needs half the pressure of a 'flexi' or 1/8th a well mashed regular flex. Wet Noodles/superflex requires 1/2 of that or 1/16th a regular flex. Weak Kneed Wet Noodles less than that.

Nice long smooth Angel Wings changed the pressure to Easy Full Flex....not quite as easy as my Degussa nibs, but a great improvement.
All the more flexible nibs, the 'flexi', easy full flex, noodle/super flex, have much variation in their flex sets.
(ended up taking out the breather tube to stop blobbing.) I've great luck with the feed, the line is Wet and Dark when pressing the nib hard for a nice fat capital L

This is about the ink....that ease of flex allows so much shading. In normal writing with this nib, it gives loud shading.

Patrican said, """""Golden Brown is more gold, light, and needs a flexy wet pen to show its beauty, but I find the shading result not as pleasant and functional for everyday use as the previous ones.""""

The shading seems to jump directly form light to dark or dark to light without a transition. So I'd call the shading sort of jumpy. (with this nib)
I normally chase shading inks, but they don't stab me in the eye as much as with this nib and flex..

I found some old notes from a couple of years ago when I first got this ink...of Civil War battle field placement etc. (nothing saying what pen I was using )...but it was that ink...because I'd not taken any brown ink to the states in I was waiting for this ink to be delivered to my motel.
Oxford Optic 90 g is very close to Clairefontaine Veloute 90 g. The pen I used in the states, I knew, so didn't list... I'd only taken two.

It was the nib of the Ahab that caused the ink to Jump Off the Page. The other pen a semi-flex F, did not cause the shading to jump. There was transition. There it was a good shading ink, that didn't stress the eyes.

In spite of it's short comings, it is an ink worth fiddling around with...if you have enough nib widths and flexes and some good paper to find out what nib or nibs works with this ink.

If I don't nit pick I can live easily with this ink in my Angel Wing Ahab. My old notes prove to me I do have a good pen for this ink, if I want the ink to chill a bit.

The Main Problems....feathers on copy paper and takes an Ice Age to dry.

I have five rolling blotters, 4 from inkwell sets. With this ink they are needed. Even after 20 seconds the blotter will smear the ink; (still readable, you can turn the page and write on the back)....if you can wait 20 seconds to turn the page..you can wait longer.

I took down a second blotter with the better blotting paper...it blotted cleaner...but still needed a second blotting...even then it smeared if I ran my finger across it.

I'm using Clairefontaine Veloute 90g. It is not a good ink for copy paper, it feathers there.

It was fun writing with it, and my modified nib. It is though a roll blotter ink.

Edited November 13, 2013 by Bo Bo Olson

[Oldparkerguy]

 

QUOTE (ShadowWriter @ Jun 7 2009, 06:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Your image and details are very good. I have a bottle of Pelikan Brilliant Brown. On my monitor, where you have done a beautiful job of shading, the color looks similar to the Pelikan Brilliant Brown but with the F nib, the Noodler's looks darker, of course.

 

Have you or anyone else used both? If so, is the Pelikan Brilliant Brown brighter than Noodler's Golden Brown or about the same?

 

Brown and yellow colour inks are not the primary inks that I would typically purchase. Standard brown ink just do not excite me enough to flash my credit card for the purchase. While yellow ink is difficult to read. I have Noodler's Golden Pig ink that I use as a highlighter, but I do not use the Golden Pig ink to write because it's tough to read. The Golden Brown by Noodler's Ink and Sepia by Diamine lean toward a "Golden" colour that sparks my interest. A bottle of ink of $12 to $15 is just the cost of doing business. I would recommend the Golden Brown if you use an edged fountain pen. If you use the typical fine nib or even broad nib with no adjustment (cursive italic or stub italic), save your money because you won't be able to appreciate the shading that is delivered with an edged fountain pen.

 

Comparing the Brilliant Brown with the Golden Brown I have to say the Golden is “brighter” and the Brilliant tends to be more reddish. I like ‘em both but keep coming back to the golden.

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