Efnir: Kwz Brown Pink

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: KWZ Brown Pink

 

This is review #13 in my series, with 100+ to go... Here's the YouTube video:

 

And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:

Scan of Completed Review:

 

Zoomed in photo:

 

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Previous Review: Sailor Souboku.

 

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

[Mercian]

I do like your time-compressed video format

 

Wrt the KWZ Brown Pink, I’d be keen to see a comparison it if to R&K Scabiosa.

That ink is also a sui generis colour - a mixture of pink and brown and dusky purple. It shades beautifully. I love the stuff.

Caveat lectrix: I am a user of ‘F’ nibs, but not yet any ‘EF’ nibs.
The Leipziger elixir is iron-gall, and in my experience is dry, dry, dry. Dryer than its blue-black i-g stablemate Salix.

Sabiosa is perfectly acceptable in my modern Parker ‘F’ nibs, and in my Pelikan ‘F’ nibs, but it’s also the only ink that I have ever dumped out of my English Parker “51” ‘F’ before I had used the whole fill.
Salix is great in that pen, and the Scabiosa wrote from it without any skipping or hard-starting, but writing with it felt dryer than trying to use the pen without any ink in it

 

As such, I suspect that it might not be exactly the best candidate for use in EF nibs. Especially Japanese EF nibs.

If you are able & willing to investigate/test that theory, your findings could constitute a useful warning to other EF fans, or (far less likely imo) even provide them with happy reassurance.

[LizEF]

I do like your time-compressed video format

 

Wrt the KWZ Brown Pink, I’d be keen to see a comparison it if to R&K Scabiosa.

That ink is also a sui generis colour - a mixture of pink and brown and dusky purple. It shades beautifully. I love the stuff.

 

Caveat lectrix: I am a user of ‘F’ nibs, but not yet any ‘EF’ nibs.

The Leipziger elixir is iron-gall, and in my experience is dry, dry, dry. Dryer than its blue-black i-g stablemate Salix.

 

Sabiosa is perfectly acceptable in my modern Parker ‘F’ nibs, and in my Pelikan ‘F’ nibs, but it’s also the only ink that I have ever dumped out of my English Parker “51” ‘F’ before I had used the whole fill.

Salix is great in that pen, and the Scabiosa wrote from it without any skipping or hard-starting, but writing with it felt dryer than trying to use the pen without any ink in it

 

As such, I suspect that it might not be exactly the best candidate for use in EF nibs. Especially Japanese EF nibs.

If you are able & willing to investigate/test that theory, your findings could constitute a useful warning to other EF fans, or (far less likely imo) even provide them with happy reassurance.

Unfortunately, I don't have Scabiosa, so I can't review it or compare it to KWZ Brown Pink. Perhaps I'll add it to a wish list for whenever I next buy inks - not likely any time soon.

 

Interestingly, next Tuesday's ink is one with zero lubrication, perhaps even anti-lubrication as you describe. Writing with it was quite unpleasant.

[LizEF]

I do like your time-compressed video format

Thank you!

[Intensity]

I do like your time-compressed video format

 

Wrt the KWZ Brown Pink, I’d be keen to see a comparison it if to R&K Scabiosa.

That ink is also a sui generis colour - a mixture of pink and brown and dusky purple. It shades beautifully. I love the stuff.

 

Caveat lectrix: I am a user of ‘F’ nibs, but not yet any ‘EF’ nibs.

The Leipziger elixir is iron-gall, and in my experience is dry, dry, dry. Dryer than its blue-black i-g stablemate Salix.

 

Sabiosa is perfectly acceptable in my modern Parker ‘F’ nibs, and in my Pelikan ‘F’ nibs, but it’s also the only ink that I have ever dumped out of my English Parker “51” ‘F’ before I had used the whole fill.

Salix is great in that pen, and the Scabiosa wrote from it without any skipping or hard-starting, but writing with it felt dryer than trying to use the pen without any ink in it

 

As such, I suspect that it might not be exactly the best candidate for use in EF nibs. Especially Japanese EF nibs.

If you are able & willing to investigate/test that theory, your findings could constitute a useful warning to other EF fans, or (far less likely imo) even provide them with happy reassurance.

 

I've used both. Scabiosa's color is different, cooler, more purple, and Scabiosa is very translucent and has a more faded look. Brown Pink is much more saturated both in hue and in opacity. Brown Pink goes on paper with a lubricated creamy feel, Scabiosa is very dry. Brown Pink has just about no water resistance, Scabiosa has high water resistance. Scabiosa is not light fast. Brown Pink has been holding up well on my fading sheet. Brown Pink is one of my favorite inks.

Edited May 14, 2020 by Intensity

[Mercian]

 

I've used both. Scabiosa's color is different, cooler, more purple, and Scabiosa is very translucent and has a more faded look. Brown Pink is much more saturated both in hue and in opacity. Brown Pink goes on paper with a lubricated creamy feel, Scabiosa is very dry. Brown Pink has just about no water resistance, Scabiosa has high water resistance. Scabiosa is not light fast. Brown Pink has been holding up well on my fading sheet. Brown Pink is one of my favorite inks.

 

Ta very muchly

[Intensity]

I should add, depending on paper and batch of Scabiosa, they might look similar. My first bottle of Scabiosa was more like Brown Pink and more like J. Herbin's Poussiere de Lune: warmer, more reddish purple, slightly muddy color. My latest bottle of Scabiosa is more like blue-purple mixed with some cream toned component. On more absorbent paper Scabiosa won't look as translucent.

[LizEF]

I've used both. Scabiosa's color is different, cooler, more purple, and Scabiosa is very translucent and has a more faded look. Brown Pink is much more saturated both in hue and in opacity. Brown Pink goes on paper with a lubricated creamy feel, Scabiosa is very dry. Brown Pink has just about no water resistance, Scabiosa has high water resistance. Scabiosa is not light fast. Brown Pink has been holding up well on my fading sheet. Brown Pink is one of my favorite inks.

Thanks for the comparison!

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review. I almost bought a sample of this a couple of weeks ago, and then decided that my shopping cart was too full and removed a bunch of inks including this.

Of course, now, seeing your review, I'm kicking myself....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

Thanks for the review. I almost bought a sample of this a couple of weeks ago, and then decided that my shopping cart was too full and removed a bunch of inks including this.

Of course, now, seeing your review, I'm kicking myself....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Ah, but now you have something to add to your wish list, and an excuse to buy again all the sooner! I mean, who doesn't want an ink whose color they really can't describe?

[inkstainedruth]

Ah, but now you have something to add to your wish list, and an excuse to buy again all the sooner! I mean, who doesn't want an ink whose color they really can't describe?

 

As if I didn't have too many inks that fit that description already.... Try describing something like Noodler's Kung Te Cheng sometime (and no, I don't think will work in an EF nib, in case you're asking and run out of inks to test...).

Or something like MB Leo Tolstoy -- let alone trying to match the color....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

..., in case you're asking and run out of inks to test...).

...

Or something like MB Leo Tolstoy -- let alone trying to match the color....

...

I've got a total of 123 to test, and this was ink 13, so I don't think I'm running out any time soon!

 

And I have a little bit of MB Leo Tolstoy (gifted from a fellow FPNer years ago) that I will review (whenever the votes get around to it). (Wish I'd bought a bottle - that stuff shades like crazy!)

[cattar]

I like this dusky color. But I like so water resistance too. So I will resist, for now.

Thanks for these ef nib reviews.

[LizEF]

I like this dusky color. But I like so water resistance too. So I will resist, for now.

Thanks for these ef nib reviews.

You're welcome!

[yazeh]

Great review like usual.... Thankfully I Have a bottle of Scabiosa, so I won't be tempted

[LizEF]

Great review like usual....

Thank you!

[XYZZY]

This is review #13 in my series, with 100+ to go...

I only just noticed the "with 100+ to go" comment, although now that I check you've got it in previous reviews, too. I've done your Next Ink poll a couple of times and was worried that you don't have many inks left. I have to say that I'm quite relieved to read that you have many to go, and I hope that you manage to stick with it for that long.

[LizEF]

I only just noticed the "with 100+ to go" comment, although now that I check you've got it in previous reviews, too. I've done your Next Ink poll a couple of times and was worried that you don't have many inks left. I have to say that I'm quite relieved to read that you have many to go, and I hope that you manage to stick with it for that long.

I remove the ink from the poll when I ink it up for review, so all those inks in the list available to choose are unreviewed.

 

When I'm ready to fill the pen for the next review, I go look at the poll, find the one with the most votes (if multiple have the same number of votes, I choose the first alphabetically), and remove it from the voting options. Poor Sailor Nioi-Sumire keeps getting out-voted at the last minute! It's as if people are ganging up on him!

 

It appears you can't see the results unless you vote - I hope folks can see them after - I'm reluctant to vote since I want it to be viewer-driven.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Awww, I have Nioi Sumire and would love to see it reviewed.

 

My Krishna Brown-Pink looks nothing like this one! Nice review. Thanks again.

[LizEF]

Awww, I have Nioi Sumire and would love to see it reviewed.

 

My Krishna Brown-Pink looks nothing like this one! Nice review. Thanks again.

Well, feel free to give Nioi Sumire a bump.

 

Just looked up Krishna Brown-Pink, yeah, nothing like.

 

And, you're welcome!