Noodler's Burma Road Brown

[Mongo]

This is a review of Noodler's Burma Road Brown ink.

 

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Burma Road Brown is a medium brown with a slight yellow tone. (I've matched the images in this review as closely as I can to the original pages, but there are too many variables to assure that you'll see the same colors as I do.)

 

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http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv16/dmoeller60/Burma%20Road%20Brown/BurmaRoadBrown-HP-C.jpg

 

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There is a small amount of feathering on the paper in this Moleskine journal.

 

I used this ink exclusively at work last week. During the week I used it in six different pens, and found it to be very well behaved in all of them. This is an ink that "just works" for me.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

 

Be well.

Dave

Edited July 20, 2009 by Mongo

[Inkanthropist]

Thanks for the review. This looks like a wonderful brown. Great label on the bottle, too.

 

Neil

[Ghost Plane]

This tempts me to try Noodlers again.

[Mongo]

Just for fun I did a bit of "kitchen chromatography" with this ink. Here's the result:

 

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv16/dmoeller60/Burma%20Road%20Brown/BurmaRoadBrown-Separation.jpg

[nickyd]

Just for fun I did a bit of "kitchen chromatography" with this ink. Here's the result:

 

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv16/dmoeller60/Burma%20Road%20Brown/BurmaRoadBrown-Separation.jpg

 

That's a good idea. Where's the yellow,though? On my scanner it appears that this is a very dark brown.

Have you any idea how it compares with Walnut Brown or Waterman's Havana?

 

[lunawing]

Burma Road Brown is very nice brown/oliver green. On the paper, I find it is very easy to my eye. Great ink with good flow properties.

Edited July 20, 2009 by lunawing

[misterh]

That looks very nice, thanks for the review.

[Mongo]

That's a good idea. Where's the yellow,though? On my scanner it appears that this is a very dark brown.

Have you any idea how it compares with Walnut Brown or Waterman's Havana?

 

I'm sorry to say that I don't have either of those inks, so I don't know how Burma Road Brown compares to them.

 

As to the yellow: When I look at this ink, I see a brown with a yellow tint to it. Others have noted a green tint. I looked at the ink under various lights, from bright sunlight to the dim CFLs in my home office, and it looked like it had a yellow tint to me. That doesn't mean that I'm right or that others are wrong...I'm just reporting what I see with my eyes.

 

Near the top of the color separation, where the color is lightest, it looks yellowish-green when I look at it in my office, and greenish-yellow under bright lights. It's really not possible to judge what the ink looks like on paper based on a separation, though. There's a lot of violet in that separation, and absolutely no hint of violet in the writing done with the ink.

 

 

(edited to correct grammar)

Edited July 20, 2009 by Mongo

[Pippin60]

Thats a great brown. I love the label on the bottle. Do I need another brown....I have 4 inks already in the brown family. :hmm1:

 

I'm having trouble finding it from the usual sources, any suggestions?

Edited July 20, 2009 by Pippin60

[nickyd]

That's a good idea. Where's the yellow,though? On my scanner it appears that this is a very dark brown.

Have you any idea how it compares with Walnut Brown or Waterman's Havana?

 

I'm sorry to say that I don't have either of those inks, so I don't know how Burma Road Brown compares to them.

 

As to the yellow: When I look at this ink, I see a brown with a yellow tint to it. Others have noted a green tint. I looked at the ink under various lights, from bright sunlight to the dim CFLs in my home office, and it looked like it had a yellow tint to me. That doesn't mean that I'm right or that others are wrong...I'm just reporting what I see with my eyes.

 

Near the top of the color separation, where the color is lightest, it looks yellowish-green when I look at it in my office, and greenish-yellow under bright lights. It's really not possible to judge what the ink looks like on paper based on a separation, though. There's a lot of violet in that separation, and absolutely no hint of violet in the writing done with the ink.

 

 

(edited to correct grammar)

 

Yep,now I can see the yellow at the lighter (top) part of the separation! As I said,good idea that 'kitchen chromatography'.

I'll have to get a bottle and try it out which should be easier (and cheaper) than changing to a colour corrected monitor.

Thanks for the review and reply.

N.

[Mongo]

I'm having trouble finding it from the usual sources, any suggestions?

 

I purchased mine from Swisher Pens.

[Thornton]

Interesting ink. It reminds me of El' Lawrence with more brown thrown in. I love El' Lawrence so I may have to try this as well.

[Dave Johannsen]

Interesting ink. It reminds me of El' Lawrence with more brown thrown in. I love El' Lawrence so I may have to try this as well.

 

Agreed that it looks like El Lawrence. I tossed in the towel on El Lawrence a while back (too many issues for me), so I am looking forward to trying this (from Dave's review, it seems to be a well-behaved ink).

 

 

Dave

[nickyd]

I'm having trouble finding it from the usual sources, any suggestions?

 

I purchased mine from Swisher Pens.

 

So did I,along with a bottle of Midway.(Quick and efficient service to the UK).

N.

[handlebar]

Oh no: Not ANOTHER brown i need to own!!!!!!!

 

Thanks Noodlers! :P

 

Jim

[junoro]

Just ordered this ink from Swisher based on my love of brown and this review. Thanks

[Jared]

I tried to pick this up at the DC Pen Show, but Swisher was sold out...must be popular.

[Dave Johannsen]

I tried to pick this up at the DC Pen Show, but Swisher was sold out...must be popular.

Even by noon on Saturday, I was told that they had already sold out that color.

 

 

Dave

[mstone]

I tried to pick this up at the DC Pen Show, but Swisher was sold out...must be popular.

I bought mine Saturday morning

[tnmike1]

as of tonight, Greenman508 on e-bay is listing all the V-Mail inks.