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I have to admit, the company that makes ink for Montblanc usually get things right.

 

Toffee Brown is really great, saturated brown ink I enjoy a lot.

 

Ink splash

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Drops of ink on kitchen towel

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Software ID:

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Color range

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Calendar - Kaweco Sport Classic, eyedropper mode, broad nib

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Thank you. I love this ink. Oh and it does well in fade tests.

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I love this ink. Definitely one of my favourites. The shading :wub:

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Ha!!.. you started with the Browns... This is going to be an AMAZING RIDE!!!.... I love Brown inks... the murkier.. the better... ;)

 

 

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I like the grayish-browns, like J. Herbin Lie de Thé, better than the reddish ones. This is a nice looking ink, but I haven't yet seen a Montblanc ink I couldn't live without. I'm more than ready to be convinced otherwise.

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This is my favourite brown ink, I love it :)

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I really enjoy this Montblanc ink... very saturated, flows well and has zero feathering except on the cheapest of copy papers. I have it loaded up with a Conklin Stylograph Mosaic... a perfect match with this medium nib that runs a bit on the finer side.

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Your colour range image is closer to my experience of Toffee Brown, that orange brown is what attracted me. It is a beautiful, well lubricated ink that is constantly in at least one pen! Thank you for the review. The top image looks like my new bottle of Iroshizuku Yama-Guri - a colour which I have to say is confusing me greatly!

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I find it to be a rich wonderful brown with a great feel on the page. I just wish it were more water resistant... Of all my inks, this may be the least tolerant of a little splash of water.

 

Has anyone else experienced nearly complete vanishing of this ink with water?

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Yes it washes away.

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I find it to be a rich wonderful brown with a great feel on the page. I just wish it were more water resistant... Of all my inks, this may be the least tolerant of a little splash of water.

 

Has anyone else experienced nearly complete vanishing of this ink with water?

I have never swum with it, I'm sorry... :lticaptd:

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Love, love, love this ink. Bought it just to see if it was any good and wanted a brown to fill my Pilot Custom 823. I have other browns, but this is the best of the 4. Yes, it does have wonderful shading, but the flow! I love the flow and lubrication of this stuff. I thought the Iroshizuku and Sailor inks had the "flow" title in the bag, but this is right up there with them. The only downside is the dry time, but I can live with it in this case.

 

Everyone who has seen this ink remarks on how it looks. The shading really is impressive. I don't care about water resistance at all, so that's not a factor for me. I'm not going to be writing letters underwater, and if I'm in a situation where I need an ink with that quality, I'll use one of the many available.

 

i honestly don't understand why lack of water resistance bothers so many people. I can count on one finger the amount of times where something I wrote got wet, and that was way back in college when I was caught in the rain and my notebooks were unprotected. And that was also before I started using fountain pens. These days, if I'm out and about and there's the threat of rain, I put papers in a plastic portfolio inside my bag. I also don't write near something that could spill.

 

If you need water resistance, there are dozens of options that possess that quality. So I think "water resistance" or "waterproofness" should only be considered or evaluated if an ink claims to be such. If not, who cares? Why knock it then?

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I was actually looking at this ink a few days ago but I finally decided not to buy it. I don't really like browns, especially with a red tint...

These scans are strange, and make it look way more red than it actually is, at least in my experience. It's more of an orange tint, if anything. I also don't like browns with a red tint either, and I love this stuff. This is no Diamine Rustic Brown, if that's what you're thinking.

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Love, love, love this ink. Bought it just to see if it was any good and wanted a brown to fill my Pilot Custom 823. I have other browns, but this is the best of the 4. Yes, it does have wonderful shading, but the flow! I love the flow and lubrication of this stuff. I thought the Iroshizuku and Sailor inks had the "flow" title in the bag, but this is right up there with them. The only downside is the dry time, but I can live with it in this case.

 

Everyone who has seen this ink remarks on how it looks. The shading really is impressive. I don't care about water resistance at all, so that's not a factor for me. I'm not going to be writing letters underwater, and if I'm in a situation where I need an ink with that quality, I'll use one of the many available.

 

i honestly don't understand why lack of water resistance bothers so many people. I can count on one finger the amount of times where something I wrote got wet, and that was way back in college when I was caught in the rain and my notebooks were unprotected. And that was also before I started using fountain pens. These days, if I'm out and about and there's the threat of rain, I put papers in a plastic portfolio inside my bag. I also don't write near something that could spill.

 

If you need water resistance, there are dozens of options that possess that quality. So I think "water resistance" or "waterproofness" should only be considered or evaluated if an ink claims to be such. If not, who cares? Why knock it then?

I love the ink as well. I see your point, but the knock about water resistance is based more than the possibility of getting caught in the rain though. One drop of water - such as if you just wished your hands or a coffee mug, etc. - leaves an empty spot. Water resistance is important if you plan to highlight and don't want a yellow-brown smear. Also if you hands get a little sweaty or damp and smear across the page. Again, there are multiple less dramatic situations where just a LITTLE water resistance is nice.

 

I still use the ink, but I have to treat it differently than most of my other inks. If you have to use an ink with conditions, I think it is fair to "knock" the ink. I also think it is good to let others know ALL the properties of the ink beyond just the fantastic flow and rich brown color.

 

And again -- this is not meant to trash the ink. It is definitely my favorite brown.

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I see what you're saying. I can see the highlighting situation as being annoying, but again, it doesn't apply to me. I use gel pens and ballpoints as well as fountain pens, so highlighting FP ink is not a situation I find myself in. Neither is writing with my FP's with wet hands or near mugs and things that could spill, so those situations don't apply to me personally either. But I see how they could apply to others now that you've explained it.

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