Diamine Saddle Brown

[DwarvenChef]

Ya I'm into browns myself, Saddle Brown looks like a good one I likes alot

[CharlieB]

If only that Grand Canyon Brown were less expensive.....

[MYU]

I like the purple tones in the Saddle Brown. Very nice ink. I agree -- the Caran d'Ache Grand Canyon is really nice too. I take it from the name that it's rather pricey?

[Sailor Kenshin]

I can't resist any handwritten review, and brown is number three on my ink-color list (after blue and green).

 

I've tried some of my first Diamine inks and like them a lot. I also like the sepia---from an ink maker I never heard of before! Very dramatic.

[zquilts]

Ooooooohhhhh it's lovely. I love broen inks - so this one has to go on my ever increasing "someday" list! Thanks for the review !

[Inkling]

Diamine saddle brown is my number one go-to ink for the moment - I always have at least one pen filled with the stuff at the ready at my desk. Colour, flow and lubrication is top notch. My only problem with it is its utter lack of water resistance. In summer my office gets rather warm, and if I rest my warm hands on my writing it will smudge in no time. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

Anyway, that is probably more of a sweaty-hands problem than a shortcoming of the ink itself. Alongside Herbin's Lie de Thè this is my favourite ink, and I warmly recommend it.

 

Edited to tone down unintended critical appearance.

Edited August 20, 2008 by Inkling

[Jared]

R&K Sepia is one of the inks that I have long searched for--the dark grey-brown ink color that I find on 19th century letters. It has a wonderful antique look about it. Thank you my German friends for helping me obtain some lovely R&K ink.

[orinem]

Just going to add my two cents of experience on this one.

 

I've been looking for a decent brown and bought some from my local pen shop (Appointments) in the small plastic bottle. I'm making it a point that I purchased the trial size because I think some of my problems may stem from that.

 

I liked the color, but on both of my pens of the time, a Lamy Safari Fine (which I still have) and a Rotring Initial Fine the saturated color only lasted for the first few lines, after that it would thin out to a very washed out tan. I also had problems with feed clogging in both pens. The clincher for me was when I went to switch colors. It seems to take me about 3 flushes to get everything out of a pen with my Noodler's inks. When washing the Diamine out of my Safari I think I might have spent about an hour getting everything out, and what was coming out at the end was a lot of dried brown particulate.

 

Since then I have sworn off Diamine inks... However, from some reading it seems that most people never have an issue with them. So I wonder if perhaps I got a bad bottle, or if the plastic bottle like the cartiridges allows too much air in, and too much water has evaporated out?

 

Thoughts?