Franklin-Christoph Brown

[white_lotus]

Franklin-Christoph is a fairly new American purveyor of fountain pens and their accessories based in North Carolina. visvamitra as reviewed some of their inks. From what I understand, they manufacture their own pens at their facility, and bottle the inks there as well. It's not known who actually makes the inks for them. The pens have some very interesting designs. The inks seem to be pretty interesting as well.

 

The is a very reddish-brown to slightly reddish-brown depending on the paper. I;m not sure my images capture this. It's quite a shady ink. It was very wet in my Pelikan M400 on the Mohawk via Linen, but it acted much drier on the inkjet paper. I haven't had that kind of issue often, so this ink's behavior may be somewhat paper dependent, and whether you like a wetter or drier ink may determine which you employ.

 

The usual paper suspects were used here. The ink washes quite reddish, an earth red. It is not waterfast at all. Blotting lifts nearly all the color up off the paper.

 

The ink is definitely not as dark as it appears in this pic.

 

Again, not as dark as it really is. But on this paper is appeared more brown than red-brown like it did on the MvL.

 

 

Quite interesting chromatography. Too bad it doesn't wash with those colors.

 

[GardenWeasel]

That is quite a nice shade of brown! I am impressed!

[amberleadavis]

You've been really busy!

[white_lotus]

Yes indeed! The goal is a review for every ink I own a bottle.