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Splendid!!! I use this colour all the time and it is among my favourites.

Thanks for the review.

Jim

Thanks for the review, I must get hold of some of this ink.

Melnicki gave me a sample of this and suggested I could add it to other inks for great shading. I haven't done that yet, cos Deirdre gave me PR Chocolat, and I inked a pen with that... and now... but anyway... passing along the tip that adding Noodler's Walnut to lighter shades can give your ink nice shading.

I love Noodler's Walnut; it is a very antique-looking brown, a distinguished brown.

QM2

Nice.
This is one of my go-to inks

How does Walnut compare to PR Chocolat and Waterman's Havana Brown?

I'd love to be able to supply an answer for you but I don't have either.
I'm an ink initiate and it's the only brown I've got.
If it helps though, I prefer eating walnuts to chocolate or havanese dogs.
I don't particularly enjoy the havanese breed of dog, but they're mostly fur and very little meat.

I just received PR Chocolat. If you'd like I'll try and review it tomorrow and get it up. I have to go out and buy a dip pen though. I have all my pens inked and it's getting to be a hassle to flush and reload just for a review.

-penguin

Penguin,

When I get to the post office, I have reviews of PR Chocolat and Havana Brown comin to you also. It's a big package beyond the 43cents or whatever the price is today cause I can't keep up.

Awesome. I'll wait for that and post it up then. Here' sa link to the review sheet.

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=56604

I bought some Noodlers Walnut just over a week ago and have tried it in 2-3 pens. It seems slightly blacker than my monitor is depicting penguinmaster's review. At times, it looks almost completely black to me! But then I used to say that about MB Racing Green - my favourite ink.

I think Walnut is probably the best ink in the entire Noodlers line. As has been said before, it is the most distinguished looking brown ink available anywhere. It is so conservative it could probably creep into the business environment without raising any eyebrows.

A few weeks ago, I was at our office in Asheville, NC, and I had occasion to look at some old documents from the late 1800s. The color of the ink on those pages was very similar to the color of the Noodlers Walnut in the scan above.

I'm curious about Ethernautrix's comment about shading. Are you saying that Walnut itself has great shading... or only when mixed with other inks?

Makes the Falcon write like butts! My god!

Here's a quick and dirty comparison while I wait for reviews to come in!

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i bought some Noodler's Walnut on the weekend, and have been using it in my Lamy Safari w/ steel medium nib...

i love the ink...the colour is amazing, its not as dark as the review looks though.

maybe its the pen and nib i'm using, but from what i see in one word there different shades which adds so much character to the ink.

For my two cents, I'm using a sample of this ink now, and the review (at the beginning of the post, not the PR Chocolate comparison) is pretty darn true to what the ink looks like, at least on my monitor it's the best digital-to-reality match I've seen.

Great flow, and initially I thought the color was too dark and too green, but it's really growing on me...

I'm addicted to Noodlers Walnut. Mine is nice and dark from my VP and C 74. Maybe there is a difference from the vintage

I find that the pen makes a big difference with walnut (my favorite ink, btw).

In a very wet writer, it really is a brown-black. I don't use it in pens like this.

In a writer with more average ink flow, the ink is spread out nicely and the color is shown off at its best to my eye.

Stephen

The walnut is a very nice colour, and penguinmaster's scans are spot on with respect to the colour. My friend uses this ink with his M620 Grand Place and the colour is beautiful.

Does anyone else have the Walnut and the PPn FPN Galileo Manuscript Brown for a comparison? On my monitor the Walnut appears similar.

Walnut is much much darker,
GMB is much lighter, almost brownish red depending on the pen you use.
you may be able to find them here. on Melnicki's ink scans

http://picasaweb.google.com/mmelnicki/Foun...key=2tLKFGXLzkE

Very helpful, superbleu, many thanks. Zoe

My FPN brown is very red, more like Antietam than Walnut.

How "red" is walnut? When I wash out my pens with Waterman Havana, the ink is distinctly red in color. I'm also noticing the red with Waterman Havana on paper too. I'm seeking a more true brown.

Likewise, how "red" is PR Chocolat? This is the other brown ink I'm considering.

To my eye, PR Chocolat isn't really red, it's a very deep, well, chocolate color -- there's a good deal of red in it, though, because if you succumb to the madness and soak a sample written with that color, some of the dye will wash out, but red will remain. I am enjoying my sample of Noodler's Walnut (finally ordered an array of brown samples from Peartree Pens, after never quite hitting on the "right" brown with so many bottles), I don't see red in it -- it's a lot like the scan here, maybe a tad darker on my monitor. To my relief and in the pen I'm using, it's brown, not near black, and more toward the tan side than the red (but not insipidly pale tan like Eternal Brown).

Thanks lefty928 - very informative! How stain resistant inside the pen is Walnut and Chocolat? Granted, browns are riskier colors than blues, greens and blacks due to the red content, but for a brown are these inks fairly "safe" or should they only be used inside lesser quality or expensive pens?

Perhaps another example of how much a pen can influence the colour of an ink - I have some Walnut now and in a medium (almost broad) Sheaffer Valiant with a Triumph nib this ink looks almost black on the page. There is absolutely no red/orange at all.

The flow is copious and leaves a real, glossy wet trail of ink behind with an impressive density to it. It does take some time to dry and with such a wet flow the dried ink is prone to smudging, especially if rubbed with a damp or sweaty finger - so don't do that. There is no feathering or bleedthrough on any but the nastiest or thinnest of papers though.

But it is a great combination because this particular pen has been troublesome, even with Waterman Florida Blue! Now it is behaving beautifully and the ink colour gets some double-takes from colleagues. I'm liking this - ££ well spent

Chris

I can't seem to edit my post -- did want to say that the Walnut sample is dark brown, and on some paper looks darker than on the paper I was initially using -- in one Moleskine, it looks fairly close to PR Chocolat. Dark, very dark, but not black (but I tend toward F and EF nibs). I'm sorry I can't comment on the staining -- so far I haven't had staining issues with any of my inks (and my pens range from inexpensive to at most moderate in cost, with some having pump converters) and so have no firsthand experiences to relate.