Taccia Cha Brown

[yazeh]

Taccia Cha Brown

  

 

This was part of blind ink testing, on another FP site. It's a fun practice, one needs to throw most prejudices out and focus on the ink

 

This is review #173.

 

It is my understanding that the Mandarin word Chá  gave birth to the word Cha in Japanese, Chai in Russian, Hindi and Farsi. In this case the ink represents well, the colour of the rare Japanese black tea (Wakoucha). It' a light reddish brown colour with slightly below average lubrication. It looks flat on Rhodia and gorgeous on Iroful. 

 

Dry times are long on Rhodia, so very long on Japanese Papers.  Shading is only visible with dryish pens and disappears with wet pens. Cleaning the ink stains from my fingers needed a pumice stone. 

 

Ink doesn't like copy paper at all. Personally, I don't mind the feathering, I find it gives character to my writing  

 

 

Chroma is gorgeous...

 

 

 

Writing Samples:

The quotes were to honour the Chinese New Year (year of the snake) 

 

 

 

 

Photo:

 

 

Comparison:

 

Water test:

Left side (10 seconds under running water. After 24 hours)

Mousy was washed away, so was half the kitty cat. Thankfully, they were reincarnated below @InesF 

 

Art Work:

Cat and mouse, cosplay tea ceremony

Paper is Talens Mixed media. The first is pocket book, the second is a square pocket size. Note both these papers fill a large hand  

Other inks used: 

Endless Alchemy Mystic Forest (Green)

Kala Onyx

 

 

·      Pens used: Pilot F3A Japanese Ef /soft flex., Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ Stub 1.1) 

·      What I liked: Learning about the rare Japanese Black tea  

·      What I did not like: Lack of water resistance, when the red became too prominent. 

·       What some might not like: Maybe the reddish brown. 

·      Shading: Subtle, disappears with a wet pen. 

·      Ghosting: Yes, on cheap paper. 

·      Bleed through: Yes, on cheap paper.

·      Flow Rate: Wet

·      Lubrication: Slightly below average.

·      Nib Dry-out: Did not notice. 

·      Start-up:  Good

·      Saturation:  Reddish brown. 

·      Shading Potential: Decent

·      Sheen: No. 

·      Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Yes on copy paper. 

·      Nib Creep / “Crud”: Did not notice.

·      Staining (pen): No. 

·      Clogging: Did not notice.

·      Cleaning: Easy 

·      Water resistance: Non-existent 

·      Availability:  40 ml bottles 

 

Please don't hesitate to share your experience, writing samples or any other comments. The more the merrier  

[LizEF]

Copy paper + Taccia Cha Brown = perfect for writing about your hectic day.

 

Interesting chroma is promising.

 

Fun snake quotes and doodles.   Nice shading when it's there.  I think I still prefer more greyed browns like Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-guri or Monteverde Moonstone, but this is a nice ink.  Am a fan of brown inks.

 

Oh dear.  Water made quite the mess of kitty and mouse!

 

Nice tea ceremony drawings.  But what is happening in #2?  Did someone invade the ceremony?  Steal Mousey's cup?  Insult Kitty?  Inquiring minds want to know!

 

Thanks, @yazeh, for a great review of a nice brown.

[lapis]

I love tea and, thusly, this ink. Thanks for wetting my gums  🍰

[inkstainedruth]

@yazeh This one looks to lean a little too red for my taste.  But thanks as usual for the comprehensive review (and my wallet ALSO thanks you, since the B/W Pen Show is in just over a week at this point... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

3 hours ago, LizEF said:

Copy paper + Taccia Cha Brown = perfect for writing about your hectic day.

 

3 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

Interesting chroma is promising.

 

3 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

Fun snake quotes and doodles.   Nice shading when it's there.  I think I still prefer more greyed browns like Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-guri or Monteverde Moonstone, but this is a nice ink.  Am a fan of brown inks.

Same here. I prefer them with less red and love brown/grey/ green inks  

3 hours ago, LizEF said:

Oh dear.  Water made quote the mess of kitty and mouse!

It's hydrophilic  

3 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

Nice tea ceremony drawings.  But what is happening in #2?  Did someone invade the ceremony?  Steal Mousey's cup?  Insult Kitty?  Inquiring minds want to know!

Open to interpretation 😛 It can be simply that Kitty wants mousy have a sip of tea  and stop playing with the sword  

3 hours ago, LizEF said:

Thanks, @yazeh, for a great review of a nice brown.

🙏

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, lapis said:

I love tea and, thusly, this ink. Thanks for wetting my gums  🍰

Same here. I'm back to drinking  tea after a long hiatus. Now, I'm getting curios about Japanese black  tea or Wakoucha 

[yazeh]

41 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

@yazeh This one looks to lean a little too red for my taste.

Same here

41 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

 

 But thanks as usual for the comprehensive review (and my wallet ALSO thanks you, since the B/W Pen Show is in just over a week at this point... ).

I'm happy for your wallet. Hope you & your wallet have a lot of fun and goodies at the pen show  

[inkstainedruth]

Well, a lot of my discretionary budget is for getting repairs done, since I keep lurking at estate sales and antiques shops.  The most recent acquisition from that direction is a Parker Laidtone Duofold (not sure if the color is technically Red, Maroon or Dusty Rose) which seems to have a mismatched cap AND a mismatched blind cap for the date code on the barrel.  And before that was a Forest Green 51 Aerometric which I'm hoping will still write well even though there seems to be a crack in the barrel at the threading.  

The scary part is that I just checked my inventory notes and paid six *times* what I did for the 51 for the Laidtone -- and I thought both were pretty good deals.  And of course I have a whole bunch of OTHER pens, which keep getting bumped to the back of the line even though I've had them longer....

And of course it doesn't help that we just dropped a bunch of money on repairs to the minivan, and I've got a bunch of bills that have to get paid before I leave for Baltimore, and my husband just dropped a bunch of money for stuff for the thing he runs his sideline business at once a year -- including renting 3 RVs for him and his crew to stay in for the week plus down at the event, which is in Mississippi....  I quit going down because I mostly wasn't getting paid at ALL, and because, well, it's not MY midlife crisis...; on about year eight, I put my foot down since the the incompetent 15 year old part-timer -- who spent most of the week mooning over some guy who road down with me that year -- was getting paid better than I was; that year I got a new laptop out of the deal because mine was pretty much to the point of "the daisies were growing like mad...".  Then, on year NINE, my "share" of the profits went to replacing the roof on the house -- which, six months later, leaked WORSE than the old roof had.... 🤬🤬  On about year 10 or 11, I basically said, "Enough is enough!"  And that was the year I had the discretionary budget for WHATEVER I WANTED, which included being able to afford the M405 Stresemann and the M405 Blue Black.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[InesF]

19 hours ago, yazeh said:

Cat and mouse, cosplay tea ceremony

 These are lovely - and funny! I'm staring at the second drawing, guessing what will happen in the second after ... 🥷 🤫  

 

Thank you, @yazeh, for this ink review and for revealing the inspiration base for Antoine de Saint-Exupéry! 

Again, I'm exited about the effort you put into these ink reviews, even when the ink is maybe not that promising for daily use.

And again, I feel well entertained with your drawings!

And again, ... wait ...

19 hours ago, yazeh said:

Mousy was washed away, so was half the kitty cat. Thankfully, they were reincarnated below @InesF 

... oh yes! I'm sure, each person doing ink reviews must have a stack of this special reincarnation paper!   I'm so soothed now!

 

And again, I'm looking forward to what will come next!  

[yazeh]

@inkstainedruth I wish you all the luck with the Parker and you other pens Sorry for the roof. That's really unacceptable. I wish you smooth sailing with the bills

[yazeh]

2 hours ago, InesF said:

 These are lovely - and funny! I'm staring at the second drawing, guessing what will happen in the second after ... 🥷 🤫  

Maybe they'd go after @LizEF's green squirrel

2 hours ago, InesF said:

 

Thank you, @yazeh, for this ink review and for revealing the inspiration base for Antoine de Saint-Exupéry! 

I'm not sure, if I get the reference. Do you mean the fox? 🦊

2 hours ago, InesF said:

Again, I'm exited about the effort you put into these ink reviews, even when the ink is maybe not that promising for daily use.

 

2 hours ago, InesF said:

And again, I feel well entertained with your drawings!

Thank you!

2 hours ago, InesF said:

And again, ... wait ...

... oh yes! I'm sure, each person doing ink reviews must have a stack of this special reincarnation paper!   I'm so soothed now!

There will a few other reincarnation reviews  

2 hours ago, InesF said:

 

And again, I'm looking forward to what will come next!  

Me too

 

[Sailor Kenshin]

Surely, @yazeh, you mean Year of the Snek!  
 

That's some chroma.  And a really good color for drawing and writing.  Samurai Kitteh forceful!  Tea ceremony happy.  Poor Mousie washed away while Kitteh smirks.

 

Cafe des Isles is the only comparison ink in my collection, but it lacks the red component.  
 

And thanks once again for making life colorful with your detailed, entertaining InkSplorations!  Keep ‘em coming! 

[LizEF]

6 hours ago, yazeh said:

I'm not sure, if I get the reference. Do you mean the fox? 🦊

Snake swallowing an elephant quote.

[yazeh]

5 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Surely, @yazeh, you mean Year of the Snek!  

On behalf of Essri and all the Sneks, Happy New Snek  🙏

5 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

That's some chroma.  And a really good color for drawing and writing.  Samurai Kitteh forceful!  Tea ceremony happy.  Poor Mousie washed away while Kitteh smirks.

Just by the chroma I should have guessed it was a Japanese ink. Pity it doesn't shine on the paper

5 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Cafe des Isles is the only comparison ink in my collection, but it lacks the red component.  

I'm guessing it's closer to Terre de Feu

5 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

And thanks once again for making life colorful with your detailed, entertaining InkSplorations!  Keep ‘em coming! 

A pleasure

 

[yazeh]

3 hours ago, LizEF said:

Snake swallowing an elephant quote.

  We shouldn't give Essri ideas. Imagine if it could gobble entire buildings was its superpower  

[inkstainedruth]

11 hours ago, yazeh said:

@inkstainedruth I wish you all the luck with the Parker and you other pens Sorry for the roof. That's really unacceptable. I wish you smooth sailing with the bills

Well the roof got re-done a few years ago and is still holding up.  The guy who did the redo that leaked peeved me off big time though, because we had one of the chimneys knocked down to the floor of the attic in order for him to put in a skylight.  Only the WHOLE POINT was to have it be openable so we could inspect the roof without having to go up on ladders/scaffolding.  And then AFTER he installed it we got this song and dance about how he COULDN'T put in one that opened up....  🤬  And then, when the roof leaked WORSE six months later: it was leaking through the second floor ceilings -- including through one of the light fixtures!) the guy made grumpy noises when we told him to patch all the places that leaked, and on HIS dime... oh boo hoo; ("world's smallest violin", etc.).  He's just lucky we didn't take him to court OR (better yet) have the state attorneys in the consumer division do if FOR us....

Part of the problem, of course, is that the main part of the roof is FLAT.  So we have a rubber membrane over most of it, except for the dormer windows, and the section around the top of the second floor.  Just one of the stupee things we had to have fixed when we bought the house (along with having the entire house re-wired, and remodeling the kitchen and the 3rd floor bathroom, and replacing some of the windows -- we really need to replace more of the windows, and redo the insulation, but we only have so much money at any one time...).  The scary part was that when we had the wiring redone, every person who gave us an estimate told us the same thing: "You have knob and tube wiring.  It's not up to code.  Other than that, the ONLY problem is where they spliced the NEW wiring into it...."  And the guy who was living here when we bought the place -- it was an estate sale, only he apparently planned to just continue living here, except that the OTHER heirs wanted their share of the money(!) -- CLAIMED to be an electrician himself.... 

And of course the person who gave us the original estimate for replacing the driveway was apparently a 3rd party vendor HIMSELF, and told us the wrong thing -- so we had to have a retaining wall built on the upper side of the driveway, which effectively DOUBLED the price.  It's not fully paid off, because the driveway people are supposed to come back at some point in the spring to put down topsoil and grass seed.  But I'm sort of bummed that they ripped out the privet hedge on either side in the process.  And I had to fight them to actually put protectors around the basement windows on that side of the driveway -- AS PER IN THE CONTRACT....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

5 hours ago, yazeh said:

  We shouldn't give Essri ideas. Imagine if it could gobble entire buildings was its superpower  

[yazeh]

@inkstainedruth I'm sorry to hear that. It is my experience, with electricity & roofers, one should good, when possible with fully licensed workers/ guild workers. The quality of work, and the service e is very different, so is the price tag.  I too, learned it late. The cheap one will often come and bite us, when & where is most sensitive.  

[yazeh]

Another quick sketch exploring the nature of Taccia Cha Brown. 
Note this is a Talens mixed pocketbook, so don't be fooled by the gigantic size on your screen. 
The blue ink is the samples De Atramentis Document and Artist Cyan, that I filled one of my Pentel brushes with. The ink stick to paper, like fly on you know what  

Zen

 

[inkstainedruth]

5 hours ago, yazeh said:

@inkstainedruth I'm sorry to hear that. It is my experience, with electricity & roofers, one should good, when possible with fully licensed workers/ guild workers. The quality of work, and the service e is very different, so is the price tag.  I too, learned it late. The cheap one will often come and bite us, when & where is most sensitive.  

Oh yeah.  The guy we wanted to do the rewiring on the house (we used to refer to him as "Johan's guy" because a friend of ours and his wife bought a house through the Pittsburgh City Housing auction about a year before we bought our house, and could NOT afford contractors -- Johan had worked building houses in NH at one point, and hired the guy to double check him on the wiring to make sure it was all done right).  The guy didn't even have a bold face listing in the phone book, let alone a display ad -- he and his crew got all their work via word of mouth from happy customers.  But then we recommended him years later to another friend, and she couldn't get the guy to even return her calls.... 

The guy we ended up hiring had also been recommended, but he was a complete jerk.  And after my brother-in-law (an electrical engineer) test the outlets along the exterior side wall in the living room and found that ALL the outlets were on the same circuit?  We were NOT happy.  And then the guy who recommended the jerk was going "Hey!  I need some work done and you've still got MY electrician at your house!" and we made growly noises at him and he backed out of the room REALLY fast....  The electrician we hired never got his last payment because he never came back to hang the chandelier back up in the front hallway; he also got miffed when the inspector told him he'd wired the secondary circuit breaker box BACKWARDS and had to do it over....

As for the roof?  We wanted to hire the people who fixed the roof on our first house after it got struck by lightning (I knew it was close -- just not that it was THAT close) -- no fire, fortunately, but it blew a bunch of slate tiles apart and blew one of the fuses).  Had to tell a friend who called that no, I wasn't going to something that night -- and to get the story straight: I wasn't summoning demons in the attic, I was summoning them in the LIVING ROOM (I was randomly rolling up characters for a "Stormbringer" campaign [like D&D but based on the Michael Moorcock "Elric" novels) she was going to run and had JUST rolled up the stats for an evil wizard....  Unfortunately, our old roofers did NOT work on Spanish, which is on the slanted parts of the roof surrounding the membrane roof.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth