Rohrer & Klingner Sepia

[Sandy1]

I was happy with a score of 23 considering my age...see better than average.

Sepia may have been this gray back then....but because of browned photos from big old box cameras, my view is a bit browner.

Got the ink, but not in a pen. Fro two days I had only two pens loaded with ESSR, now have two of the four with MB Sepia. Which is somewhat browner.

 

I'd be more tempted to put this in my small gray/grayed ink section.

 

Hi,

 

I'm glad you did so well in the Munsell exercise.

Also coming from the reference of Sepia-toned photos, (as distinct from warm portrait papers), I share your view that the 'Sepia' hue is somewhat more Brown than R&KS. It does teeter into the Grey, in a manner not dissimilar to Herbin Cacao du Brasil.

 

I look forward to your comments on R&KS after you've spent some time with it, especially from a flexi nib.

 

Bye,

S1

 

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My Review of Herbin Cacao du Brasil: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/242986-herbin-cacao%26-8203%3B%26-8200%3Bdu-bresil/page__view__findpost__p__2642263

Edited October 31, 2013 by Sandy1

[Bo Bo Olson]

I've had great luck living near Heidelberg, Germany to get to the museums, especially in Spire where they often exhibitions of some of the German Emperor families from 900-12-1300 and in Mannheim or Ladenburg.

 

Only after I got interested in fountain pens did I really look at the parchment-papers, with the red wax stamps hanging from them. The bibles are written in a big script.

Some do have a slight red/brown tinge, others the R&K sepia color. More the latter…some sort of iron gall ink….I’d guess.

 

It was amazing how tiny the lettering was on documents; how perfect. The best scribe and his best journeyman in all the Germany’s wrote those. One of the few who could read and write who was not locked up in a monastery.

 

To writes so clear and beautiful (laser clear), on such expensive material as parchment, no one but God could have rushed those scribes…since I’ve been paying attention, I’ve seen 3-400 of those types of parchments…Marriage agreements, treaties and anything else one put on expensive parchment with very expensive red wax seals, so perfectly done in tiny script…Needlepoint Crow Feathers? Only the world’s finest sharpest steel for a pen knife for such a document.

 

The scribes were Artists.

[kpyeoman]

Apologies to dig up a dormant thread, but I bought this ink shortly after this review came out. I had been anticipating/hoping for the colour of Sandy's writing samples; however, upon receiving it and inking my pen, I found it was more like the colour below -- a brown with a bit of grey/black (vs. a grey with a hint of brown). From my experience, this is the true colour of this ink.

 

All that being said, my initial disappointment has morphed into a love for this ink paired with my gold Sheaffer 797 with a broad nib. It's constantly inked with this ink and it really, really suits a broad nib pen. The ink is obviously darker in a broader nib, but is a distinct "fountain pen ink." Looks good and the characteristics (flow, cleaning, etc.) are excellent.

 

it's a lovely ink, and one i use almost exclusively on one of my two agatha christies (the other one is on a dose of diamine oxblood). see here:

 

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3679/10066278515_fe77736389_c.jpg

[penmanila]

^that's my pic and pen above i'm still the happy user of R&K sepia for my agatha christie, but i've been experimenting with sepia, and was looking for something more olive (greenish-brown) than gray, so i cooked up this concoction from a variety of inks, and use it in my other daily writer, alongside the agatha:

 

[dragos.mocanu]

I bought the ink as a response to this awesome review, and it has since become a favorite, alongside with Scabiosa and Alt-Bordeaux (which is my most favorite ink color). Thank you Sandy for providing us with such thorough and delectable reviews (you've already helped me in picking more than 10 ink colors so far!)

[setriode]

My bottle arrived from Germany this evening. I immediately filled a Sheaffer Sentinel Vac-Fill with a fine nib and wrote over an hour and a half. Not only is this a wonderful colour, it shades heavily with this nib which is wet. More soothing to the eyes than other warm red-brown sepia inks, it is more legible and an excellent colour redolent of old ink and writing.

[Sandy1]

Apologies to dig up a dormant thread, but I bought this ink shortly after this review came out. I had been anticipating/hoping for the colour of Sandy's writing samples; however, upon receiving it and inking my pen, I found it was more like the colour below -- a brown with a bit of grey/black (vs. a grey with a hint of brown). From my experience, this is the true colour of this ink.

 

All that being said, my initial disappointment has morphed into a love for this ink paired with my gold Sheaffer 797 with a broad nib. It's constantly inked with this ink and it really, really suits a broad nib pen. The ink is obviously darker in a broader nib, but is a distinct "fountain pen ink." Looks good and the characteristics (flow, cleaning, etc.) are excellent.

 

 

Hi,

 

Many thanks for sharing!

 

I am a bit concerned about the apparent shift in ink colour though, especially as it seems greater than that which could be ascribed to 'wobble' in the ink itself, or to the malleable nature of the ink by which the appearance can change according to the pen+paper combo.

 

Bye,

S1

[Sandy1]

I bought the ink as a response to this awesome review, and it has since become a favorite, alongside with Scabiosa and Alt-Bordeaux (which is my most favorite ink color). Thank you Sandy for providing us with such thorough and delectable reviews (you've already helped me in picking more than 10 ink colors so far!)

 

Hi,

 

You're welcome!

 

I do hope you like the 10+ inks you've picked. I too find Alt Bordeaux a great ink; somehow it remains very much under the radar of many.

 

Bye,

S1

[Sandy1]

My bottle arrived from Germany this evening. I immediately filled a Sheaffer Sentinel Vac-Fill with a fine nib and wrote over an hour and a half. Not only is this a wonderful colour, it shades heavily with this nib which is wet. More soothing to the eyes than other warm red-brown sepia inks, it is more legible and an excellent colour redolent of old ink and writing.

 

Hi,

 

Thanks for letting us know of your experience with this ink.

 

Since I posted the Review, I've tried some very wet pens with this ink, and have been very pleased with the results. It seems that the Written Samples in the Review do not represent the full range of the ink. That's nothing new, but when the performance profile allows significantly extending the range of pen+paper combos it is always good to know.

 

If possible, would you be so kind as to contribute some sample images?

 

Bye,

S1

[matt49]

I love Rohrer & Klingner inks and this one is one of my favourites

Very nice well behaved ink with wonderful colour and shading

Thanks for the review very interesting indeed in some very fine nib pens it even looks like pencil lines and in double boards it can look a wonderful brown / grey with terrific shading

Very wonderful ink

[ENewton]

I am finding that this ink works so well with my dip pens that I might dedicate it to that purpose.

[NicolausPiscator]

Jup! This Sepia looks great! Especially in your writing samples. Thanks!