Fountain pen friendly note cards?

[caleath]

I have been searching high and low for some that are good to use with fountain pens. I like to use them for research work.

[jbb]

Are you looking for fold-over cards or correspondence cards?

[Sleepyside]

Or do you mean index cards? That would be my guess since you said you wanted to use them for research.

[caleath]

Or do you mean index cards? That would be my guess since you said you wanted to use them for research.

Sorry yes index cards,

[KrazyIvan]

It is very hard to find any that are FP friendly. I participated in a thread where someone sent out samples to try. None of the cards really worked and the closest one that did okay was on par with the Mead cards I got at Walgreen's.

[caleath]

Well that stinks, I did an unthinkable thing today...I ordered a retro 51 tornado stealth rollerball fountain pens don't work everywhere.

[thagbert]

Don't listen to Darth Fountain Pen. I'm fairly obsessed with index cards. I have used a lot of them. I have had success with Oxford brand index cards. I primarily use the canary yellow ones I purchase at office depot. I also use the white ones and the fluorescent ones.

The colored cards seem to work the best. There is slight feathering on the white cards, although it is not significant. There is little to no bleed through. I can recommend these cards.

I cannot recommend Levenger index cards. Not FP friendly at all. Major feathering.

Sorry KrazyIvan!

[thagbert]

Well that stinks, I did an unthinkable thing today...I ordered a retro 51 tornado stealth rollerball fountain pens don't work everywhere.

Rollerball?!? Blasphemy!

Although I do use gel pens. My favorite is a Uni-ball Signo RT UM-138 0.38 Blue/Black. I get them from Jet Pens. Very fine point.

[caleath]

Oxford colored ones will do.

[KrazyIvan]

Don't listen to Darth Fountain Pen. I'm fairly obsessed with index cards. I have used a lot of them. I have had success with Oxford brand index cards. I primarily use the canary yellow ones I purchase at office depot. I also use the white ones and the fluorescent ones.

The colored cards seem to work the best. There is slight feathering on the white cards, although it is not significant. There is little to no bleed through. I can recommend these cards.

I cannot recommend Levenger index cards. Not FP friendly at all. Major feathering.

Sorry KrazyIvan!

No need to apologize, that's the thing about the forum, pooling experiences to get information like this is good. The Oxford cards I tried did not work great. Do you have a order number?

[Sleepyside]

I have actually had good luck with most index cards. I did have one crazy cheap brand that reminded me of stone paper. Weird stuff that even a pencil didn't work on. And then there was one pack of rough cheap things that feathered like crazy. But other than that most run of the mill cards acquired at Staples, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, etc. have worked pretty well. I am the index card queen and always have been. I am much too cheap to buy index cards at Levenger, so I have no experience with those.

Caveat - my pen of choice is a fine nibbed Japanese something or other - usually a Pilot but sometimes a Sailor.

YMMV

[thagbert]

Don't listen to Darth Fountain Pen. I'm fairly obsessed with index cards. I have used a lot of them. I have had success with Oxford brand index cards. I primarily use the canary yellow ones I purchase at office depot. I also use the white ones and the fluorescent ones.

The colored cards seem to work the best. There is slight feathering on the white cards, although it is not significant. There is little to no bleed through. I can recommend these cards.



I cannot recommend Levenger index cards. Not FP friendly at all. Major feathering.

Sorry KrazyIvan!

No need to apologize, that's the thing about the forum, pooling experiences to get information like this is good. The Oxford cards I tried did not work great. Do you have a order number?

The Oxford item number is 33513. Office Depot item number is 331421. This is for the canary yellow 3 X 5 cards. I have a whole stack of the bloody things!

[thagbert]

I have actually had good luck with most index cards. I did have one crazy cheap brand that reminded me of stone paper. Weird stuff that even a pencil didn't work on. And then there was one pack of rough cheap things that feathered like crazy. But other than that most run of the mill cards acquired at Staples, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, etc. have worked pretty well. I am the index card queen and always have been. I am much too cheap to buy index cards at Levenger, so I have no experience with those.

Caveat - my pen of choice is a fine nibbed Japanese something or other - usually a Pilot but sometimes a Sailor.

YMMV

I too have found that the fine nib works better with index cards.

[caleath]

Thanks to everyone for the help.

[Gulfcoast]

Well that stinks, I did an unthinkable thing today...I ordered a retro 51 tornado stealth rollerball fountain pens don't work everywhere.

I have a (gasp) matching pen/pencil set of the retro 51's. It will be OK.... :D

[thagbert]

Well that stinks, I did an unthinkable thing today...I ordered a retro 51 tornado stealth rollerball fountain pens don't work everywhere.

I have a (gasp) matching pen/pencil set of the retro 51's. It will be OK.... :D

Blasphemy! :-)

[KrazyIvan]

I gave my Retro 51 rollerball to Bogon.

[Tweel]

There are two brands that work well for me (I use 4 X 6 cards, btw):

- Tops, #081-05-0004, blue label-card
- Roaring Spring "Paper Trail" (no catalog number, UPC # 070972748446 (http://www.itemlookup.net/))

The Tops cards are a little better than the Roaring Spring in terms of feathering, but they both behave well.

[thagbert]

There are two brands that work well for me (I use 4 X 6 cards, btw):

- Tops, #081-05-0004, blue label-card
- Roaring Spring "Paper Trail" (no catalog number, UPC # 070972748446 (http://www.itemlookup.net/))

The Tops cards are a little better than the Roaring Spring in terms of feathering, but they both behave well.

Where have you found these cards?

[writingrav]

There are two brands that work well for me (I use 4 X 6 cards, btw):

- Tops, #081-05-0004, blue label-card
- Roaring Spring "Paper Trail" (no catalog number, UPC # 070972748446 (http://www.itemlookup.net/))

The Tops cards are a little better than the Roaring Spring in terms of feathering, but they both behave well.



Where have you found these cards?

I found both listed on Amazon. Also a separate web site for Roaring Spring http://www.rspaperproducts.com/products/index-cards but not for Top.

[writingrav]

There are two brands that work well for me (I use 4 X 6 cards, btw):

- Tops, #081-05-0004, blue label-card
- Roaring Spring "Paper Trail" (no catalog number, UPC # 070972748446 (http://www.itemlookup.net/))

The Tops cards are a little better than the Roaring Spring in terms of feathering, but they both behave well.



Where have you found these cards?

I found both listed on Amazon. Also a separate web site for Roaring Spring http://www.rspaperproducts.com/productsO/index-cards but not for Top.

On second look neither of these exact products are listed on Amazon or the Roaring Spring site. Sorry for the confusion.

[D Armstrong]

Do you need lines (rules) on your cards? If not, then one other possibility is that you could make your own.

We have been protoyping a line of fountain pen-friendly monogrammed note cards, and have found that 80# cover Strathmore "Writing" wove is the right weight for note cards, and is great for fountain pen use. (We use the same line, in a slightly heavier weight, for our greeting cards.) It comes in regular 8½" x 11", but it is quite easily cut up into 3" x 5" size. Any paper supplier that carries Nenagh products should be able to get it for you.

You can see some of our write-testing photos on Strathmore "Writing" here: http://sevanti-letterpress.com/faqs/#3

[Sailor Kenshin]

It is very hard to find any that are FP friendly. I participated in a thread where someone sent out samples to try. None of the cards really worked and the closest one that did okay was on par with the Mead cards I got at Walgreen's.

Levenger cards seem to do okay, and they come in blank, ruled, and grid. Expensive, though, I THINK.

[thagbert]

It is very hard to find any that are FP friendly. I participated in a thread where someone sent out samples to try. None of the cards really worked and the closest one that did okay was on par with the Mead cards I got at Walgreen's.

Levenger cards seem to do okay, and they come in blank, ruled, and grid. Expensive, though, I THINK.

Unless they have changed their paper, I have had major feathering issues with Levenger cards. The one I have are a couple of years old. So they may have new paper.

[Sailor Kenshin]

The ones I have are far older than a couple of years, so we could both be right, lol.

[thagbert]

The ones I have are far older than a couple of years, so we could both be right, lol.

Indeed!

[Tweel]

Where have you found these cards?
I bought the Tops cards at Target, but I think they've switched to a house brand. The Roaring Spring cards are from a local university book store. I've read that Roaring Spring is a common brand around campuses.