Montblanc Leonardo - Red Chalk

[mrchan]

Thanks for the nice review bigeddie. Hmm..I remember what pink chalk looked like on the blackboard while in school and that was what I was expecting. The fact that this is quite like a collodi is a bit disappointing as I found the collodi too light orange and it wasn't much good for me for any sort of daily use. But thanks for that anyway. Australia takes forever to receive new MB stuff!

[agchristie]

Thank you for the review. I must say I am a bit disappointed it is not a slightly darker chalky brown-red with a bit more red tones. Seems weird that they would make two inks which are so similar (Carlo Collodi). But you have made up my mind towards getting a bottle finally of the Hitchcock red. Though I love Davinci, need to think about that ink.

[Sailor Kenshin]

I've got my bottle now, and I love the ink. It's a terra-cotta red, amd flows beautifully in a Haolilai Goldenpen. Even looks cool, with the butterscotch-swirl barrel. I used the fill and cleaned the pen, but I think this will prove to be one of those indivisible pen/ink combos.

[Joane]

It took a while but I have the ink. The store from which I originally ordered it did not come through. None of the other MB dealers contacted in my area had it (or had heard of it), the MB main office in Canada said they had no more (where had it gone if no one had it?) and finally, I was able to reserve it and buy it over the holidays from the MB store in Short HIlls, NJ!

 

I am so glad I did! I love the colour and the flow is good. It is exactly as I imagined an ink called Leonardo Red Chalk would be. There is in it, to my eye, a drop of pink that I have seen in actual red chalk.

 

Sample - the pink note I see in reality is not as evident through the various technological steps but, an idea...

[Cyber6]

It took a while but I have the ink. The store from which I originally ordered it did not come through. None of the other MB dealers contacted in my area had it (or had heard of it), the MB main office in Canada said they had no more (where had it gone if no one had it?)

 

He he... I bought the last two bottles in the Toronto Boutique.. .. No hording here, I sent one to my sweetheart in the US..

 

 

I do like the color.. but, for me at least, it needed more "punch" in the red spectrum. I solved that with a drop of Hitchcock..

 

(please forgive crappy iPhone pic)

 

 

I am really digging my new and improved DaVinci !!!

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

A recent review not yet loaded here showed it as a brown-orange shading monster.

Too bad.

This is just a red ink...and red inks are not good for my piston windows.

This review saved me buying this.

[crbrown]

http://i.imgur.com/WHdjFd1.jpg

This is how it looks for me on various papers out of my Homo Sapiens EF, top is light pressure, bottom is pressing it a little bit.

[Bill]

I just picked up a bottle and find it an interesting ink. Freshly loaded in the pen (before it starts to evaporate and darken) it is quite reminiscent of the rust-colored Galileo Manuscript Brown that Noodler's made for FPN a few years ago.

[Sblakers]

Just got a couple bottles of this stuff and threw it in my Octavian. Awesome ink! Very interesting color and quite well behaved. The shading is amazing.

[theverdictis]

Great review, really nice choice and collection of inks you have.