Did you know that Caran D'Ache means pencil? (There's probably more to it, but that's my understanding.) Here's how I learned....
A long time ago at pen show far far away, I marched right up to a dealer and exclaimed, "Oh! You have Caran D'Ache! I love her pens!!"
Ug.
Put me right back to high school when someone asked me if I like Def Leppard. Trying to sound like I knew what he was asking while still staying non-committal, I replied, "Yeah. He's ok. I mean, some of his stuff is alright." Oops..Def Leppard is a "them."
So, anyway. Check out that black. Pretttttttty? Nice and dark - totally saturated. And it wrote beautifully from the very first stroke of the pen.
No feathering. No shading isn't a surprise.
Beatiful.
A long time ago at pen show far far away, I marched right up to a dealer and exclaimed, "Oh! You have Caran D'Ache! I love her pens!!"
Ug.
Put me right back to high school when someone asked me if I like Def Leppard. Trying to sound like I knew what he was asking while still staying non-committal, I replied, "Yeah. He's ok. I mean, some of his stuff is alright." Oops..Def Leppard is a "them."
So, anyway. Check out that black. Pretttttttty? Nice and dark - totally saturated. And it wrote beautifully from the very first stroke of the pen.
No feathering. No shading isn't a surprise.
Beatiful.
The water test? Well. Not so beautiful. Not a total fail, but definitely a surprise.
Here's my bottom line - if I had a bottle of it, I'd use it. I'd rather have Noodler's Black, though - all of the color, and water-resistance.
Read what others are saying..
Fountain Pen Network (a comparison of blacks..er...an unrealistic comparison)
Goulet Pens is selling for $19.50
and Amazon has it for $20
SF Pen Show is this weekend!! Who's going?
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