I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[A Smug Dill]

4 hours ago, inkypete said:

The company owned usually have the bigger range of products.

 

It used to be the opposite, when company-owned Daiso stores in Australia were apparently constrained to sell everything at the same price (which was $2.80 at the time), whereas franchise stores could sell ¥200, ¥300, etc. items at higher prices.

 

I can distinctly remember buying one or two different ¥200 products from a company-owned store for $2.80, whereas the two franchised stores within walking distance were selling the exact same products for $3.80. However, such anomalies (and “bargains”) were few, and in general the company-owned store simply wouldn't carry anything with a Japanese price card of ¥200 or above.

[Misfit]

I’ve been binge watching The Good Wife. The law firm investigator Kalinda uses an orange notebook often.  Sleuths online think it is by Pentalic.  I saw a mention of The Good Wife in a review. The thing is the particular notebook is a sketchbook. I bought one anyway. It will be interesting to see if it works with fountain pens. 

[de_cupertino]

Did anyone catch this Maruman factory video?

 

 

[XYZZY]

4 hours ago, de_cupertino said:

Did anyone catch this Maruman factory video?

 

 

Cool!  Thank you for posting that.  I think. They have way too many neat looking videos and I might lose a month watching them. 

[ridiculopathy]

@de_cupertino Thanks! It was cool to see my favorite work notebook (the N236ES!) being made. 

 

Having said that, to keep to the topic, I saw the Midori MD A5 ruled notebooks on Amazon for a low price ($8.80) and couldn’t stop myself from getting 3 more so that my hoard of them is now a nice, even 10. 

[Penguincollector]

I ordered some Sakae Iroful A5 dot grid to see if I can find more inks for @USG. Should be here tomorrow. It’s been driving me nuts.

[Misfit]

The Pentalic Traveler Pocket Journal Sketch notebook arrived two days ago. It has blank 74lb. 120g/m2 pages. It is 4”x6”. It has a pocket in the back, and one ribbon bookmark. The pages are thick, for sketching.  It works with fountain pens for writing.  There are two other sizes, one smaller and one larger.  The cover is more at soft cover. 
 

 

[AmandaW]

Plan came together today... a Blue Platinum Plaisir to go with the A6 Hobonichi. I swapped the 03 nib for an 02 from a Preppy to work more to my taste with the Stalogy 365 I have in the cover. The paper is a pale grey 5mm grid - anything bolder looked too dark to me. I had already been using the Preppy with the finer nib and half expected I'd want to swap it. OK, I'm a sad pathetic fuss-pot.

 

In the writing sample scribble: the 03 nib is to the right, the 02 is the dash points. The ink is Platinum Blue Black from a cartridge.

 

I'm using it as a sort of commonplace book. Somewhere to write little things I don't want to lose. I do have a zettelkasten in Obsidian on my pc with about 40 years worth of such gleanings all brought together from the various ways I kept them over the years and that's great, but I wanted somewhere to write little things as I come across them. Longer notes, I would probably go straight to Obsidian, these little ones will eventually end up there to.

 

OK, it's an excuse to use a pretty notebook and a fountain pen.

 

[A Smug Dill]

5 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

a Blue Platinum Plaisir to go with the A6 Hobonichi. I swapped the 03 nib for an 02 from a Preppy to work more to my taste with the Stalogy 365 I have in the cover.

 

Nice! By the way, that cover was back on the eligible product list the other day, but not for any cheaper than what you paid. Win! 😄

 

6 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

The paper is a pale grey 5mm grid - anything bolder looked too dark to me.

 

How do you feel about dot grids?

[AmandaW]

20 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

How do you feel about dot grids?

Love 'em. My Bullet Journal has been a Clairefontaine 5mm dot grid for the past 2.5 years. It's an A5 in a Lihit Lab cover.

 

 

 

[txomsy]

3 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Plan came together today... a Blue Platinum Plaisir to go with the A6 Hobonichi. I swapped the 03 nib for an 02 from a Preppy to work more to my taste with the Stalogy 365 I have in the cover. The paper is a pale grey 5mm grid - anything bolder looked too dark to me. I had already been using the Preppy with the finer nib and half expected I'd want to swap it. OK, I'm a sad pathetic fuss-pot.

 

In the writing sample scribble: the 03 nib is to the right, the 02 is the dash points. The ink is Platinum Blue Black from a cartridge.

 

I'm using it as a sort of commonplace book. Somewhere to write little things I don't want to lose. I do have a zettelkasten in Obsidian on my pc with about 40 years worth of such gleanings all brought together from the various ways I kept them over the years and that's great, but I wanted somewhere to write little things as I come across them. Longer notes, I would probably go straight to Obsidian, these little ones will eventually end up there to.

 

OK, it's an excuse to use a pretty notebook and a fountain pen.

 

 

That one looks gorgeous. OTOH I am a big fan of Japanese illustrations.

[dudleian]

9 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Plan came together today... a Blue Platinum Plaisir to go with the A6 Hobonichi. I swapped the 03 nib for an 02 from a Preppy to work more to my taste with the Stalogy 365 I have in the cover. The paper is a pale grey 5mm grid - anything bolder looked too dark to me. I had already been using the Preppy with the finer nib and half expected I'd want to swap it. OK, I'm a sad pathetic fuss-pot.

 

In the writing sample scribble: the 03 nib is to the right, the 02 is the dash points. The ink is Platinum Blue Black from a cartridge.

 

I'm using it as a sort of commonplace book. Somewhere to write little things I don't want to lose. I do have a zettelkasten in Obsidian on my pc with about 40 years worth of such gleanings all brought together from the various ways I kept them over the years and that's great, but I wanted somewhere to write little things as I come across them. Longer notes, I would probably go straight to Obsidian, these little ones will eventually end up there to.

 

OK, it's an excuse to use a pretty notebook and a fountain pen.

 

Whoa, another Obsidian user

[txomsy]

Went to Madrid last weekend. We went for sightseeing and museum visiting, but on the way from the Royal Palace to Sol, on Mayor, in front of the House of Sepharad, the Home of Asia and the Home of Japan, we passed by this nice Arts shop, Lema Arts with the following street display:

 

 

Luckily (or nor) I hadn't the time to enter, so could only take this paltry picture, but it was certainly calling? shouting? screaming? at me.

 

So, if you go to Madrid, besides Sacristan, Debod and El Corte Ingles' boutiques (none of which I could visit either), that may be an interesting place to visit (even if only for the street display). As I remember, in the 90s there used to be some large arts shops around Sol, but I couldn't find any of those any more (one I could, but was definitely closed).

[inkstainedruth]

Very cool.  The last time I was in Madrid was 1978 and did not know about any stuff like that (although I did go to the Prado twice ) -- but of course while I brought stuff like pencils and dip pens and maybe the Rapid-o-Graphs, I did not really know about fountain pens back then.  I did take a local bus into Malaga to an art store to get another sketchbook from the hotel we were staying at in the Costa-del-Sol one day, because I ran out of pages in the one I brought with me -- it was a 1 credit drawing and painting workshop run by one of my art professors, the summer after my freshman year in college (there were a LOT of quickie sketches in it in oil pastels of people dancing in the disco at the hotel there).  

Don't remember if it was in Madrid or Seville (don't think it was Malaga) but also picked up a print in an art gallery that was named for some American artist who went to Spain and worked as a bullfighter (!) as well as an artist.  Had to have my mom send the gallery money when I got home because I think the place didn't take travelers checks or something.  Not sure where that piece is now, but I'm pretty sure I still have it).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

On 8/1/2023 at 3:58 AM, AmandaW said:

Plan came together today... a Blue Platinum Plaisir to go with the A6 Hobonichi. I swapped the 03 nib for an 02 from a Preppy to work more to my taste with the Stalogy 365 I have in the cover.

Hi Amanda. I’ve been using a Nova Orange Platinum Plaisir with the orange Pentalic notebook. Since it is a sketch book, there are no lines, so I write bigger even with the smaller nib size. Partly, I want to fill the page more quickly. I’m writing things to do in it.  What are your thoughts on the Hobonichi cover?

[AmandaW]

1 minute ago, Misfit said:

What are your thoughts on the Hobonichi cover?

I like it. The pen loops work well to hold the pen and also keep the cover closed. The polyester fabric has a quite fine weave which makes the picture look detailed, yet tough as well. I'm very happy with it.

[Misfit]

11 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

I like it. The pen loops work well to hold the pen and also keep the cover closed. The polyester fabric has a quite fine weave which makes the picture look detailed, yet tough as well. I'm very happy with it.

I’ve pondered getting the A5 cover only. There currently is one called cloudy Moon with yellow interior. I’m a sucker for anything with Moon in the name. 

[AmandaW]

13 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I’ve pondered getting the A5 cover only.

I did only buy the Hobonichi cover, then a Stalogy notebook to go inside it. And then lots of looking to find the right pen to live in the pen loops. I'm happy with the combo, it's going with me everywhere I'm working or reading.

[Misfit]

@AmandaW I think it’s wonderful when people find the pen and notebook combo that goes everywhere with them. 
 

I chose a spiral notebook to be a commonplace notebook, but I think I chose wrong. I don’t want to carry it around the house. Then when I think of something to write in it, it’s not handy, and I forget what I wanted to write down. 

[A Smug Dill]

15 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I chose a spiral notebook to be a commonplace notebook, but I think I chose wrong. I don’t want to carry it around the house.

 

A spiral notebook in a Mayplous notebook cover (which, incidentally, is not made of “dead cow”) for the win! I love carrying mine, even if it's just around the house.

 

My wife thinks I've thrown the kitchen sink (a spiral-bound notebook, a staple-bound notebook, three fountain pens, a multi-pen, and half a dozen Zebra Sarasa Clip pens in different colours) into that thing, but honestly, it doesn't feel as if I'm carrying that much in either weight or bulk with it.