I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[ParramattaPaul]

I have to admit that the last time I used a guillotine paper cutter was about the same time I last used a mimeograph machine.  That was 1966, year 12 in high school when I worked in the school Library.  

[inkypete]

Hobby grade manual guillotines are never quite accurate on the larger quantity of sheets they say they will cut at once. If accuracy to the millimetre is important then you will be disappointed. They are really just meant for small jobs, minimal sheets at once. I have generally found the models that utilise a sliding blade to cut are cleaner, but same limitation with sheets.

[A Smug Dill]

2 hours ago, inkypete said:

If accuracy to the millimetre is important then you will be disappointed. They are really just meant for small jobs, minimal sheets at once.

 

I personally would expect that if the manufacturer states that the cutting capacity is 10 sheets, then at the very least it can cut through 8 or 9 sheets (that is, given some margin of error in the manufacturer's favour) without deviation, whereas (one would reasonably expect) cutting 10 sheets of possibly thicker/heavier/denser specification or more at once is what gives rise to skewing or deviation, with a swing or pull of the blade-arm.

[inkypete]

1 hour ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

I personally would expect that if the manufacturer states that the cutting capacity is 10 sheets, then at the very least it can cut through 8 or 9 sheets (that is, given some margin of error in the manufacturer's favour) without deviation, whereas (one would reasonably expect) cutting 10 sheets of possibly thicker/heavier/denser specification or more at once is what gives rise to skewing or deviation, with a swing or pull of the blade-arm.

Paper GSM will obviously make a difference and the makers all rate their products at optimum performance. Hard to maintain that.

[AmandaW]

I changed my mind about getting an A5 Clairefontaine notebook and need help finding something else. The A6 notebook I bought at Daiso has 7mm line spacing and I realised I'm liking it much more than the Clairefontaine 8mm.

 

So... circa 200 pages, A5, 7mm line spacing and grey or faint lines. And soft cover since it's  going into a Lihit Lab cover. Bonus points for ivory or other off-white paper.

 

The pen will be a Pilot 912 with a posting nib which should be friendly with most paper, but I do want to write on both sides of pages.

[A Smug Dill]

2 hours ago, AmandaW said:

So... circa 200 pages, A5, 7mm line spacing and grey or faint lines.

 

Midori MD notebook (176 pages)? Apica Premium C.D. notebook (CDS90Y, with 192 pages)?