alternative ink to Montblanc Lucky Orange

[Namx3]

Hi is there some alternative ink to Montblanc Lucky Orange, whats on the paper look similar.

[mizgeorge]

Iroshizuku Fuyu-gaki?

 

Otherwise La Couronne de Comte have the MB for 11 Euros (and in stock) right now. Hard to go wrong at that price.

[lapis]

Omas?

[bunnspecial]

Wasn't familiar with this one, so can't comment directly. I'm not a fan of oranges in general(Edelstein Mandarin is about the most tolerable for me) and think Manganese Orange is an awful ink.

 

With that said, this looks like a great color and I may be tracking down a bottle of it.

[lapis]

MB's Mahatma Gandhi. Long gone but still a good match.

[Dione]

On 7/15/2021 at 1:05 PM, Namx3 said:

Hi is there some alternative ink to Montblanc Lucky Orange, whats on the paper look similar.

Not sure if you're saying you want a different ink or you can't get Lucky Orange. You can buy Lucky Orange in Germany if you want it. Heinemann sells it

[Namx3]

On 7/16/2021 at 10:11 PM, Dione said:

Not sure if you're saying you want a different ink or you can't get Lucky Orange. You can buy Lucky Orange in Germany if you want it. Heinemann sells it

Thanks i going oder Lucky Orange at the homepage of your post. Before i was looking at amazon they didnt sell it or when they sell it 99 $ for this ink. I ask this question because i like the color of Lucky Orange i have got a ink sample and it empty now.

[amberleadavis]

They still have it at the MB stores in Las Vegas.  Also, you can look at the links in my signature and check out the orange thread.

[Namx3]

On 7/21/2021 at 12:53 AM, amberleadavis said:

They still have it at the MB stores in Las Vegas.  Also, you can look at the links in my signature and check out the orange thread.

Watch Montblanc lucky Orange look like this on the oxford optic paper is ink up in my Pelican m200 is have a custom grind to a architechs nib.

[amberleadavis]

Check out the orange thread (see the signature link below) and you can see oodles of oranges.

[RJS]

The colour is quite nice, and theoretically suitable for marking, but it's such an awfully behaved ink!! I can't think of any ink that dries on the nib so fast nor cruds up a nib so badly. You dare not pause to think, or the ink will have ceased to flow. Look what it managed to do when I forgot about it for 9 days: (and yes, the inside of the cap was also smothered in the ink. The nib and section cleaned easily, but it's proving a pest to get out of the converter.)

 

[Namx3]

I have this same problems too i have too clean my m200 with ultra sonic . I like the color . But not the ink after 5 days when your pen lying around i have the same problems like you 

[amberleadavis]

Oh I hate when inks do that.  It has to do with a specific yellow dye (though I don't know which one).  It does not damage the pen but it sure is frustrating.

[lapis]

If you (plural) go back and look at the heap of photos indicating such crud on the nib, section, etc. you'll soon note that that is mostly (if not always) a yellowish orange. That has to do (yes, of course) with the dye itself. I've forgotten exactly which dye that is, but it's the solubility plus intensity which causes that. The crud is simply the dye itself which is -- quite in contrast to that of other colours -- very soluble but at the same time very unintense. That means that so much of it has to be put into solution in the first place during manufacture before you get a legible colouring. Then, the minute that the ink has the possibility to dry out (i.e. even before it hits the paper), that solute (the dissolved dye) just falls out. I too have always seen yellow-orange crud, also coming out of "red" inks, but as soon as I try to wash that off and/or out of the pen (with plain ol' water), the sooner I see that it's all gone (because it's so water-soluble). I've never yet seen that happen with any bluish or blackish inks. And... as Amber just said, it doesn't damage the pen... it's just excess dried-out ink

[Dione]

It's a combination of the dyes used to make the ink, the length of time the ink is inside the pen and the fit of the cap on a particular pen. An ink made with these dyes that is left for some time inside a pen that doesn't have a very well fitting cap will have this effect. By comparison I've had a Montblanc 146 pen filled with Lucky Orange for several months and it hasn't had this effect in that pen. I check it regularly for any signs.

[lapis]

That's true. I have different pens with different "close-abilities" too and with my best pens (sealing very well) and also very tightly closed, I see little crud. But the crud I always do see is almost always orange crud. 

[RJS]

I agree that similar colours are most prone to crudding up, and that pens with poor caps (for example, most pens made by Lamy) will suffer the worst. There's little excuse for an ink that won't write/hard starts after a few seconds away from the paper, though (assuming the pen has no issues with any other inks, at least.)

[pranav.bhatnagar]

Hey!!

 

I would suggest you can go for Lamy Bronze (which is not too light or dark). the color is good with mild saturation. 

 

In Lamy range, there was Lamy Orange, which is exactly similar but unfortunately it's discontinued now.