Pelikan Brilliant Brown

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[tcheuchter]

Have this one and your review is spot on! Only brown I have. After your reviews will be picking up more. Thank you again.

[Stylo]

It is the only Brown I have too and it is a great ink. It has a nice light coppery feel to it too. I have heard others say that Pelikan inks are on the dry side, but I think that may only be true for the blue-black.

 

[coco]

I love this brown (probably my favorite of the 3-4 browns I have). Thank you for another excellent ink review!

[penburg]

Thanks for the review. I too like brown ink. Started with PR chocolat, which seemed a bit too red for me and slow to dry. Now I use Skrip Brown with some Quink Black added (5:1) and like it well enough. I keep hearing how good Havana Brown is, too.

 

Thanks.

[Ifeelgud]

I am also a great fan of this colour. It also is more forgiving with my style of handwriting - perhaps this is my imagination? Nice review.

[Aysedasi]

Useful review - than ks very much indeed.

[Peter from Sherwood Park]

Can anyone who uses both Pelikan Brown and PR Copper Burst comment on the difference in colour between these two inks?

[Bearcat]

Can anyone who uses both Pelikan Brown and PR Copper Burst comment on the difference in colour between these two inks?

 

 

Copper Burst is more of a "greenish" brown while the Pelikan is more of a "reddish" brown....Two very different "browns".

 

 

[Jason Oliver]

Well, I have to say I'm sorry for bashing Pelikan inks all these years. This brown ink is wonderful, IMHO superior in color to Waterman Havana Brown.

[ThaIwan]

Also got a bottle of this, use this color a lot though it's a bit to milky chocolate for me sometimes, but still very okay with it. Recently also acquired Sailor red brown, great color and shading and I traded some stuff for Diamine Saddle Brown. If you're into horse riding and know the deep color of riding saddles then this color is a great match as well.

[usonian]

This was the first brown I purchased, and it's definitely very reddish and on the light side. Not what I was looking for at the time, but perhaps I should give it another try.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I think all inks should be tried with many widths and flex's of nib and different papers.

 

I found that out testing BM Toffee brown.

 

On that ink, the narrower nibs were better...and I had no "Name" paper to check it as a base. Xerox paper and one of the papers was a very good, heavy, "fake" hand made...don't know what because it had been hanging around for decades. Landre`'s Oxford Optic paper 90 g/qm, in a note book showed the ink best.

 

It could well be on Name paper the thicker nibs could have a better showing.

 

My next ink will be Pelikan Brown....in fact the MB toffee, sneaked in ahead of it.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I think all inks should be tried with many widths and flex's of nib and different papers.

 

I found that out testing BM Toffee brown.

I found out here I must go more scientifically at this to make a good report, rather than scribbling all over a couple of sides of paper, with various pens.

Luckily others did most of the work on this ink.

 

On that ink, the narrower nibs were better...and I had no "Name" paper to check it as a base. Xerox paper and one of the papers was a very good, heavy, "fake" hand made...don't know what because it had been hanging around for decades. Landre`'s Oxford Optic paper 90 g/qm, in a note book showed the ink best.

 

It could well be on Name paper the thicker nibs could have a better showing.

 

My next ink will be Pelikan Brown....in fact the MB toffee, sneaked in ahead of it.

 

 

Got the Pelikan today, my problem is what pens to unload to test it. I had three pens I only dipped, a 14 K OF simi flex, a 14 K KM semi flex, a Parker 14 K 75 M and my favorite 14 K OB.

 

 

I found my Pelikan 605 14 K BB a modern pen, and a early mid 50's* cheaper piston pen with a semi-flex 14 K M nib empty.

Hurray!

I bought the pen "a long time ago" and as noobi didn't know it was sort of semi-flex...it is perhaps the least flexible of my semi-flex nibs. (It could "loosen" up with a bit more use.")

I am glad for this test, it had only been inked once...and as noobie I'd not realized it was semi-flex.

*The Connie and Super Connie (as we called it in the AF) or Constellations were called Clippers, were from the mid 40's to late 50's the main plane. To have a pen so named "Clipper" dates the pen rather well.

 

 

 

Pelikan brown is redder than MB Toffee. I could go with a color description as some one did as Copper.

I think on the paper I used it is slow to dry. I got smears after a count of 20. If one blots it, and the German little school note books comes with a blotter page, the shading is removed...the color stays.

I get good shading on both Brunner and Lanre` booklets, and in both the ink is slow to dry*; which is why a blotter page is in the booklet.

*I don't know if that is a characteristic of paper that is good for shading. I'm noobie with paper.

 

The OF semi flex was a darker shade.

I found the color light in a stiff nib M nibbed Parker 75.

In the newly discovered semi-flex M, it was darker by far.

The KM semi flex was a good shading. a bit dark.

OB was best for shading of course, and good in color.

 

BB modern non flex, shaded a bit, but was lighter than the more flexible nibs. I do get shading on it; the better the paper the more shading.

 

I think that flex plays a great deal with the color; along with paper, to what exact color one gets.

This is redder than MB Toffee.

I can not trust my ancient Schaeffer brown cartridge in a test, in that I'd added water to something that had evaporated over decades. That for me is a Green Brown.

 

I used regular copy paper, some Xerox also...I had two little 16 page booklets. Brunnen 90 g/m2, and Oxford optic paper by Landre` 90 g/m2.

I have not gone a paper check, to which is best; the difference was minimal and I had not much Landre`. I'm waiting to get more different types of paper.

 

I found out here I must go more scientifically at this to make a good report, rather than scribbling all over a couple of sides of paper, with various pens.*

Luckily others did most of the work on this ink.

 

*Twas fun though.

 

Does brown, like red stain piston windows?

Edited May 13, 2010 by Bo Bo Olson