I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[txomsy]

Getting to wander the outskirts of definitions, I recently got a cork sleeve for the passport. The idea was it might hold the passport and, at the same time a passport-size notebook. Got it yesterday and can say the idea is sound, it takes both very well, thus providing an alternative to travel notebooks. The sleeve has additional pockets for a couple of cards, so it makes for a most useful travel device.

 

I will take it to a future trip abroad and report back how well it takes going in a pocket.

[Stompie]

18 hours ago, XYZZY said:

 

This looks like an interesting find @Stompie, thank you.  I know you just got it, but any sense for how the covers and binding will hold up?  720 pages is 3x-4x what is in my typical journal, which means it would need to withstand 3-4x the amount of use and abuse.

 

It's listed on the US Amazon site, too, at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VGBYHQ1/, and looks like it comes in A5(ish) and B6(ish).

I am not too sure how well it will hold up to be honest. The cover does seem very thin.

I have fed it some Dubbin wax just to keep the leather supple and we will see how it does.

[AmandaW]

Oh, the same notebook listed on the Australian site says it has "Soft Black PU Leather cover". I thought that meant synthetic.

 

[Runnin_Ute]

13 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Oh, the same notebook listed on the Australian site says it has "Soft Black PU Leather cover". I thought that meant synthetic.

 

the last PU leather item I bought (a pen wrap) was indeed synthetic.

[AmandaW]

28 minutes ago, Runnin_Ute said:

the last PU leather item I bought (a pen wrap) was indeed synthetic.

 

Great. It can stay on the wish list then, I would only want synthetic. I have no idea what I will do with so many pages... it's just the coolest looking notebook.

 

Thankyou Stompie. 🙂

 

[USG]

On 5/13/2023 at 7:06 AM, AmandaW said:

Huge treat. I got to go to Daiso cos Mother's Day. And look!!! A ceramic toothbrush thingy that will perfectly prevent a sample vial falling over while in use. OK, so the hollow goes right through, but I can fix that with sticky felt and some epoxy or something. I tried all the sizes of sample vials I have and they all fit. 

 

Family are now convinced I'm either easy to please or a complete nut. Does it matter?

 

On 5/13/2023 at 7:06 AM, AmandaW said:

 

 Very Clever !!!  🙂👍

 

On 5/23/2023 at 10:55 AM, Stompie said:

I used a dip pen nib and then a Home ground Jinhao Italic which is very wet, then a Toms Studio Spark Flexi pen, also wet and lastly a Manuscript Italic nib fountain pen.

Indentations can be seen but no feathering and no bleed through so all seems good to go!

 

 Very nice writing...🙂  Paper looks good.  👍

[Gloucesterman]

7 hours ago, AmandaW said:

I have no idea what I will do with so many pages...

Quite a while ago I used  400 page A5 size bound books that I carried with me (one at a time) everywhere. I thought of them as my "Everything" book. it held information to remember, journal entries, ideas, schedule information, pasted business cards, calligraphy practice, memorable quotes - anything and everything.

The only stuff that never made it into the book were sketches, because I never really drew any pictures.

 

Somewhere around "here" I still have several the filled ones. Might be interesting to check out whatever I put in there ..."back then".

YMMV and enjoy.

[dragondazd]

2 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

Quite a while ago I used  400 page A5 size bound books that I carried with me (one at a time) everywhere. I thought of them as my "Everything" book. it held information to remember, journal entries, ideas, schedule information, pasted business cards, calligraphy practice, memorable quotes - anything and everything.

The only stuff that never made it into the book were sketches, because I never really drew any pictures.

 

Somewhere around "here" I still have several the filled ones. Might be interesting to check out whatever I put in there ..."back then".

YMMV and enjoy.

I did this. It took me the last three years to fill a 500 page book...

[Misfit]

These arrived on Thursday. The notebook is a Hobonichi Weeks April start, that I put in the new olive Travelers Notebook. The ink is Iroshizuku Yu-Yake. 
 

[ParramattaPaul]

Decisions, decisions...

 

This  

 

This  

 

Or this  

[dragondazd]

14 minutes ago, ParramattaPaul said:

Decisions, decisions...

 

This  

 

This  

 

Or this  

The blue one is the only one I'd dare lol

[ParramattaPaul]

30 minutes ago, dragondazd said:

The blue one is the only one I'd dare lol

 

Yeah.  The first one could end up being used as evidence.  The second is a good one, but comments about living persons my be problematic.  Now, number three; I could fill that in a single Zoom meeting.

[Misfit]

I like the third one for its symbolic finger to the boss. 

[Misfit]

Earlier this year I bought a Boorum & Pease Ledger book on Amazon. I finally decided to try it, using a pen with a F nib. There was show through, but no bleed through. I think the pen is a close match to the cover. 
 

[Gloucesterman]

Over the years I have picked up vintage blank (and partially written in) journals and ledgers. It is fun and satisfying to use the vintage material when employing fountain or dip pens. Even with broad/italic nibs and saturated inks I have rarely encountered bleed through and never (IIRC) feathering or ghosting.

 

My best acquisition was three elephant folio (18"x24" - maybe 200+ pages/book - iirc) blank city voter registration books from the early 1900's. Two of them had separate listings for men and women! I ended up selling them to several vendors at one of the Commonwealth Pen Shows for about $100.00 each. Awesome paper and impractical for my needs. heck, those books weighed 20+#s each... and I'm not talking about the weight/thickness of the paper.

 

They reminded me of the books/tomes shown in movies where a sorcerer consults their book of spells or lore.

 

I still keep an eye out for them at the larger flea markets but they are very rare and usually MUCH more expensive now.

[Misfit]

I’m glad sharing my new Ledger photo spurred you to share your story. The voting registration books sound amazing. I like that they made you think of spell books by sorcerers. 

[USG]

If it isn't pens, it's ink and if it isn't ink it's paper.

 

I've been trying Iroful 75gsm paper.  I don't know where I saw it, but the next thing I knew it was delivered. CrabbyMe doesn't like it. 

 

It's supposed to be similar to Cosmo Snow with a soft ride, and good shading and sheening, but it's an off white, like Cosmo Air Light, which throws off colors.  It's very susceptible to finger prints and turns them into ink resistant spots, so you have to be careful.

 

In terms of shading and sheening, I don't think it's as good as Cosmo Snow and as long as you don't mind adding a little yellow to you ink colors, its fine.  I don't know why someone would choose Iroful over other premium paper.  If it has a unique property, I haven't discovered it yet. (YMMV)

 

[Penguincollector]

I just printed some Seyes ruled paper for fun on various old blank pages I had in a folder. It’s not quite new, but has a new use, I guess. Some is cotton rag, which sounds extravagant, but was getting a bit beat up and discolored. 

[dragondazd]

On 5/31/2023 at 12:55 AM, Misfit said:

Earlier this year I bought a Boorum & Pease Ledger book on Amazon. I finally decided to try it, using a pen with a F nib. There was show through, but no bleed through. I think the pen is a close match to the cover. 
 

Man! So classy. 

 

Why is ledger always so expensive?

[ParramattaPaul]

4 minutes ago, dragondazd said:

Why is ledger always so expensive?

Because accountants buy them?