EFNIR: Herbin Cacao du Brésil

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, namrehsnoom said:

Cacao du Brésil is one of my favourites from the J. Herbin line of inks. Your comparison with kiri-same is spot-on: one a grey with brown undertones, while the Herbin ink is definitely a brown with grey undertones. What I like most about Cacao du Brésil is that it works great with all nib sizes and all types of paper. Just a good & solid ink. And its colour is different from all other browns in my collection.

[A Smug Dill]

On 7/22/2021 at 12:56 AM, namrehsnoom said:

Your comparison with kiri-same is spot-on: one a grey with brown undertones, while the Herbin ink is definitely a brown with grey undertones. What I like most about Cacao du Brésil is that it works great with all nib sizes and all types of paper. Just a good & solid ink.

 

 

Most notable differences, other than colour which can look quite similar when not ‘viewed’ with the harsh clinical light source in a scanner, are that Cacao du Brésil yields tighter lines, and Kiri-same has superior water resistance.

 

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Aside: Milligram just sent me a A$15 discount voucher, but it has been ages since it has any products I find appealing to offer me at a price at least as favourable as I can find elsewhere in Australia. It used to be one of the few Australian retailers that carry (a limited range of) Kobe INK Story inks, and from time to time would offer some colours of those (and of Robert Oster inks, too) at good discounts; and it used to be one of the best (cheapest, after discount) local stockists from whom to order 50ml bottles of Pilot Iroshizuku ink. It has since dropped Kobe INK Story and even Robert Oster, despite the latter being an Australian manufacturer, and its price for Iroshizuku is now at the highest end of the spectrum of what I see ‘locally’. Only by stacking discounts would its price be favourable compared to my other options; but of course Milligram only sent me the unsolicited discount voucher after I just bought Iroshizuku ink from another stockist two weeks ago! Given I passed on Kiri-same in all that agonising last round, on account of Cacao du Brésil looking similar and I already have several surplus bottles of it picked up at A$5 apiece, it was the most likely candidate; but I just had to give the two a more detailed comparison to be sure. (Outcome: I decided to use the opportunity on a slightly discounted bottle of Iroshizuku on Tsukushi instead, even though I also passed on that in the last round.)

 

I like Pilot Iroshizuku Kiri-same better except for the fact that it seems to make lines from the same nib less crisp on Rhodia DotPad paper, and I vaguely remember it producing woollier lines on Paperblanks paper (of which I have tonnes).

[LizEF]

31 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

Most notable differences, other than colour which can look quite similar when not ‘viewed’ with the harsh clinical light source in a scanner, are that Cacao du Brésil yields tighter lines, and Kiri-same has superior water resistance.

Thank you for the side-by-side comparison!  That's very helpful.

[PithyProlix]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

2 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

Most notable differences, other than colour which can look quite similar when not ‘viewed’ with the harsh clinical light source in a scanner, are that Cacao du Brésil yields tighter lines, and Kiri-same has superior water resistance.

Thank you for the side-by-side comparison!  That's very helpful.

 

Ditto! 

[Misfit]

I love @LizEF’s Efnir posts.  I got this ink for my last birthday.  I wrote this out for the Stub O’ The Day thread. The paper is a Maruman Spiral notebook.
 

 

[LizEF]

53 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I love @LizEF’s Efnir posts.

😊 Thank you!

 

55 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I got this ink for my last birthday.  I wrote this out for the Stub O’ The Day thread. The paper is a Maruman Spiral notebook.

Oh my!  That's lovely in your big fat stub!   Thanks for the addition.

[LizEF]

Here's the line width measurement. The line is one of those used for dry time.  Magnification is 100x.  The grid is 100x100µm.  The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each.  The line width for this ink is roughly 330µm.

 

[Detman101]

This has become my second favorite ink next to "Sailor - Nadeshiko".
And the great thing is that if you add a few drops of "CDB" to "Sailor - Nadeshiko"...it turns it into "Sailor - Nekoyanagi"

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, Detman101 said:

This has become my second favorite ink next to "Sailor - Nadeshiko".
And the great thing is that if you add a few drops of "CDB" to "Sailor - Nadeshiko"...it turns it into "Sailor - Nekoyanagi"

Who woulda guessed!