Caran D ' Ache - Grand Canyon

[lapis]

Apologize? I'm really happy you bumped into us. If you love inks a hundred times less than I do, you still won't quit collecting them and tring them all out. This name of this ink sort of says it all!

 

Mike http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/thumbsup.gif

[Blix]

Hehe, thank you for the replies, Ghost Plane and lapis!

 

I went a little crazy last night and ordered a bunch of cheap pens, three more 78G's (with F,M and B nibs) and a 10-pack of Hero 616's. Now suddenly just two bottles of ink seems a bit lacking

[Sandy1]

Hi,

 

 

I'm glad you like the Review.

 

I think its great that you find this ink suitable for renewing your interest in writing with good ink from an FP.

 

And yes, I reckon your son will be impressed with a hand-written letter. Who knows - perhaps he'll also take-up writing with an FP!!

 

Bye,

S1

[Blix]

Thank you Sandy. I will send my son a pen with the letter, so he will have no choice but to use it to reply

[Sandy1]

Hello again,

 

To support ad hoc comparison to most other Brown inks that I have reviewed, Caran d'Ache Grand Canyon was revisited to add more written samples. These samples use much the same layout, papers, pens and imaging method as my more recent reviews of Brown inks.

 

As always, should one feel that a separate Post or Topic is required to depict a certain aspect of an ink, or a comparison to another ink that I have reviewed, your PM will be welcomed. While requests for new scans may be accommodated in due course, creation of even more written material is unlikely.

 

:=:

NIB-ism

Paper: HPJ1124.

Depicts nibs' line-width and pens' relative wetness.

IMG thumb:

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/Sandy1-1/FPN_2012/Comparison%20Exemplars%20-%20Caran%20dAche%20Grand%20Canyon/th_80d5d95e.jpg

Distance between the feint vertical pencil lines is 25mm ↔

Pens: L → R: 52 1/2 V, 45, Prelude.

 

WRITTEN SAMPLES - Moby Dick

Ruling: 8mm.

 

Paper: HPJ1124.

 

http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/Sandy1-1/FPN_2012/Comparison%20Exemplars%20-%20Caran%20dAche%20Grand%20Canyon/4aea019b.jpg

 

Paper: Rhodia.

 

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Waterman 52 1/2 V

 

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Paper: Staples 20 lb.

 

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OTHER STUFF

Smear/Dry Times & Wet Tests ☂

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COMMENTS

• Results are consistent with prior samples.
• Two-sided use on the Staples 20lb seems likely from a slightly dry pen.
• The writing experience is excellent. *wiggle toes*
  

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Pens:

• Waterman 52 1/2 V + №2 14K nib.
• Parker 45 + g-p steel M nib.
• Sheaffer Prelude + steel factory stock stub nib.

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Tags : Fountain Pen Ink Review Caran d'Ache dAche Ache Grand Canyon Brown Sandy1

[Bo Bo Olson]

Halogen lights can really ruin a color. In this case also swallow shading.

 

I've had inks like MB Seaweed, that I'd gave to the next school kid coming down the road, had I not waited to see what it looked like in natural light.

 

Same thing with C d'A Grand Canyon.

It seemed so light, a light brown and not as listed a dark brown.

In natural daylight.

Not that it's that dark..a nice medium brown, with some shading.

The vintage pen I put it in was mis-marked or had a nib change. The semi-flex nib was marked M but is a F or F-EF.

Kept watching this nib at that width with the little semi-flex flares make my script look nice, the ink looked so very good,...the shading... worth every cent I paid....well got the ink cheap in Germany for €11...just after I read it was discontinued.

 

A Tortoise Boehler Gold mdl 54, just like the Omsia; the company one of the Boehler brothers split from.@ sumer of '38, has gold plated clip and rings, the Italian nib has gold wash. Germany could not use gold for nibs after summer of '38. The Italians could.

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm300/BoBoOlson/B05qqKwB2kKGrHqMOKiEERGChR8EBMcV7mpcw_12.jpg

My only other 'brown' pen a M400 tortoise has 'green' ink in it...so much for color coordination.

Edited April 9, 2013 by Bo Bo Olson

[Jreckitt]

ink looked so very good,...the shading... worth every cent I paid....

 

Seconded - the shading with this ink is delicious!

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 8/1/2010 at 2:27 AM, Sandy1 said:

Shading:

• Nicely done, and very eloquent. (Pardon the surfeit of images, but my subjectivity is showing.)

Whoops did this but now a slightly different way of thinking.

 

Again late to the party, but with such a little bottle, one is 'sparsam'. I had used it before....will have to remember to try it in a nice springy regular flex, that might show a bit more shading than in semi-flex.

 

The old German vintage nibs are 1/2 a size or more thinner than modern.....so the KM looks a tad thin for M. I don't know if a B nib would be too much, but a slightly fatter M nib might do quite well.

 

I put some in a Osmia 773 semi-flex KM. In it is semi-flex a wetter nib, on Oxford Optic 90g there is some shading....not much, but some..........adequate.....eloquent would word.....

A nice ink.....I foolishly didn't buy more of those inks when they were discontinued........but cheeped out at the wrong time.