I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[Penguincollector]

Thanks, @Sailor Kenshin.

[USG]

17 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  You’re so welcome, @Sailor Kenshin.  Meanwhile, I managed to pick up a pack of Yu-Sari paper and a beautiful vintage Japanese Airmail tablet- here’s a screenshot of the cover:

 

 

  There’s little drawings on each page as well. 

 

That's so nice !!!!  😀👍

I've seen Yu-Sari on Amazon.  What's it like?  Is it anything like Iroful or Cosmo Snow?

[Penguincollector]

4 hours ago, USG said:

 

That's so nice !!!!  😀👍

I've seen Yu-Sari on Amazon.  What's it like?  Is it anything like Iroful or Cosmo Snow?

  Thank you! I should receive the Yu-Sari tomorrow, and the Lady Emerald as well, coincidentally, so we’ll see. The Youtuber who does “The Wet Pen”  has some writing samples done on it featured on some of last month’s Colorverse advent calendar videos. That’s where I first heard about it.

[Penguincollector]

  I had to buy some things in order to reach the shipping threshold for my folded nib order. Those things ended up being a couple of Fabriano EcoQua notebooks in A5 staplebound and spiral, and a Capitol Bond 25% cotton letter sized practice pad. 

[inkypete]

3 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  I had to buy some things in order to reach the shipping threshold for my folded nib order. Those things ended up being a couple of Fabriano EcoQua notebooks in A5 staplebound and spiral, and a Capitol Bond 25% cotton letter sized practice pad. 

Don't you hate it when you have to buy more to avoid shipping? I feel for you. More notebooks and pads than you really wanted..........

[inkstainedruth]

I had to do that when I was ordering several converters last week.  Ended up buying 2 bottles of ink (and then sweating out the super low temperatures before the package was delivered on Friday.  

And then the joke was on me -- apparently I HAD at least one (maybe two) spare converters already.... Which means that at some point?  I'll probably have to buy some budget Pelikan c/c pen and another Sheaffer No Nonsense....  

🤷‍♀️

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, inkypete said:

Don't you hate it when you have to buy more to avoid shipping? I feel for you. More notebooks and pads than you really wanted..........

  It’s a crying shame, I know 😂 

[inkypete]

On 1/13/2025 at 11:19 AM, Penguincollector said:

  It’s a crying shame, I know 😂 

My inky thoughts and prayers are with you.

[Penguincollector]

  I finally gave in and got a guillotine style paper cutter. I have a slide blade one and it’s terrible. I’m really excited to be able to cut a bunch of my A4 paper down to A5 and not have it be messed up somehow. 

[USG]

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

  I finally gave in and got a guillotine style paper cutter. I have a slide blade one and it’s terrible. I’m really excited to be able to cut a bunch of my A4 paper down to A5 and not have it be messed up somehow. 

 

You're on the Right Road !😀👍 

[mhguda]

7 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  I finally gave in and got a guillotine style paper cutter. I have a slide blade one and it’s terrible. I’m really excited to be able to cut a bunch of my A4 paper down to A5 and not have it be messed up somehow. 

I bought one many years ago and have not regretted it once. Even though it does not cut large stacks of paper, it is such a time- and effort saver. Especially for (thin) cardboard for notebook covers.

Enjoy yours!

[Sailor Kenshin]

9 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  I finally gave in and got a guillotine style paper cutter. I have a slide blade one and it’s terrible. I’m really excited to be able to cut a bunch of my A4 paper down to A5 and not have it be messed up somehow. 

I've got two such.  Love them!

[inkstainedruth]

We have one of those style paper cutters, and ours is big enough to be able to do larger sizes (about 14" x 14" or maybe even a bit bigger for the base).  The only problem is that it's sort of a pain to cart around since it tends to live in my husband's home office, and there really isn't a lot of room to use it, so it has to be hauled around the house and then put back.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

21 hours ago, USG said:

 

You're on the Right Road !😀👍 

  Thanks! Maybe one day I’ll have my own notebook machine too! 
 

15 hours ago, mhguda said:

I bought one many years ago and have not regretted it once. Even though it does not cut large stacks of paper, it is such a time- and effort saver. Especially for (thin) cardboard for notebook covers.

Enjoy yours!

  I will, thank you!

 

12 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I've got two such.  Love them!

It’s so nice! 

 

11 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

We have one of those style paper cutters, and ours is big enough to be able to do larger sizes (about 14" x 14" or maybe even a bit bigger for the base).  The only problem is that it's sort of a pain to cart around since it tends to live in my husband's home office, and there really isn't a lot of room to use it, so it has to be hauled around the house and then put back.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

  This one is a smaller one, but due to counter surface constraints, I plan to keep it boxed and take it out as needed. At least I can keep it in my hobby room. 

[Runnin_Ute]

I tend to use the one at my office when I feel the need. Of course, I either have to be in the office that day(I work a hybrid schedule-2 days in/3 days at home) most of the time, although I am working 5 days a week from home right now. My wife just had a total knee replacement and won't be going back to the office until early March. Fortunately, the office is less than 5 minutes from home so if I need to run over for a few minutes I can.

[A Smug Dill]

Personally, I would be happy to wear the economic expense and space requirements of a flatbed paper guillotine — and I've been tempted many times before to just buy one — if I felt I could trust it to cut precisely through whatever is specified as the sheet capacity of the tool, using only what is supplied with the product. By that, I mean if the capacity is stated as (up to) ten 80g/m² sheets, I expect a single downward pull of the arm to cut through the stack cleanly and straight, without allowing any possibility of the sheets below the top slipping (usually at an angle) by even 0.1mm, all without my having to find and use additional weight and clamps, etc. (outside of any lock-in guides already there as part of the machine) to secure the stack of paper. I'd be happy to work with whatever speed the tool requires — a quick pull to be ‘faster’ than any possible slippage between the sheets of paper, or a slow and deliberate pull such that the momentum of the bladed arm would not inadvertently push the sheets to move laterally as it progressively cuts alone the intended line.

 

But I don't trust anything sold in, say, Officeworks for ≤$250 to actually do that cleanly, successfully and consistently. In Officeworks outlets themselves, there is a paid-for service on offer to charge the willing customer per cut using their large, ‘professional’ guillotines, but even they expressly state that a straight edge (especially through the entire stack) is not guaranteed as part of the service terms and conditions.

 

Just to be clear, I know it's easier to maintain consistency if I cut ten sheets as two separately handled stacks of five, with a guillotine rated for a maximum of ten sheets. But, to me, that's not the point. If I can't even get nine sheets (i.e. allowing a 10% leeway to my disadvantage) to be cut cleanly without movement because the blade is so sharp and the machine design so heavy-duty that nine ‘stupid’, inanimate sheets of paper can't be made to stay put for long enough to be cut with a clean and aligned edge with one downward swoop of the blade, then that tool is not fit-for-purpose and useless to me. If I give it that 10% leeway, then I should expect that out of 100 attempts, it'll deliver 100 successful cuts of nine-sheet stacks with no exception.

 

/rant

[Mechanical]

On 1/21/2025 at 5:40 AM, Penguincollector said:

  I finally gave in and got a guillotine style paper cutter. I have a slide blade one and it’s terrible. I’m really excited to be able to cut a bunch of my A4 paper down to A5 and not have it be messed up somehow. 

 

These are soooo useful!  I've had a (not deluxe) guillotine cutter for decades and use it all the time.  I do find myself wanting one of those models with a  clamp that holds the paper while cutting -- and which apparently cut 400 pages at once!  The $200+ price tag has saved me.  So far.  I really have to stop rewatching the video of the vendor cutting through an inch-high stack of copy paper.

 

I just replaced a bottle of Iroshizuku Take-Sumi. That was all I had in mind.   But somehow this put me in the mood, and  I also ordered a couple of King Jim LASENO Ring Notebooks (along with refills). The King Jim paper is quite nice, it turns out.  But then also I felt the sudden need for a Shachihata  Ink Pad, a Tsumekake Index Punch, a couple of Kokuyo Research Lab Pens, some colored Stalogy sticky flag notes, a box of Kita-Boshi Red/Blue Editor's Pencils (really like these), a pack of Silvine little pocket notebooks, a replacement hardcover Kokuyo sketch book... and a Pilot Frixion frog stamp (green).  At this point, I'm choosing not to recall my recent visit to Kinokuniya.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Penguincollector]

34 minutes ago, Mechanical said:

At this point, I'm choosing not to recall my recent visit to Kinokuniya.

    I stuffed mine down the memory hole.   It was penguins all the way down in there the last time I went.

 My work study job one semester was in the copy room, it was intimidating at first, but then fun to work madame guillotine. 

[AmandaW]

Our guillotine is rather large. Print shop large. And heavy. The paper is clamped and the blade goes straight down so there is no skewing. It still requires care in use to position the cut and keep fingers out of the way.

 

About a month ago I changed my bullet journal from an A5 Clairefontaine (kept in a Lihit Lab cover with a Pilot Custom Heritage 912 PO nib in its pen pocket) down to an A6 softcover Japanese notebook from Daiso. It's so small it can easily goes everywhere with me and does. Now I'm eyeing the wasted Lihit setup and thinking it could serve as a commonplace book. That means a visit to the office supply shop for a new Clairefontaine A5. Today. I hope.

[USG]

23 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  Thanks! Maybe one day I’ll have my own notebook machine too!

 

 

Wink 😉