Lady Onogaro
July 19th, 2014, 01:51 PM
Hi,
When I was up in St. Louis visiting my folks, I went into a Big Lots store with my Mom. I took a look at the stationery aisle as I had read that people sometimes found Kokuyo notebooks there. I picked up a "Day Runner Life Tracker" notebook that in many ways resembles a Midori Traveler's Notebook except that it has a plastic cover and a different kind of rubber band/elastic (Chris Davis uses these with his notebooks). It is advertised as customizable, with calendars, expense logs, address books, etc. The one I bought contained three notebooks: a ruled notebook, a graph paper notebook, and a plain paper notebook.
I was curious about the paper and whether it would work well with fountain pens. The short answer is it will not. No matter how fine the nib, there was a good bit of bleed through, and in many instances, this was true of gel pens, too. I tried the following pens:
Jinhao Elegant Writer with a medium nib
Pilot Custom 74 with a fine nib
Lamy AL Star with a fine nib
TWSBI Mini with an extra-fine nib
I will say though, that if you want to write on one side of the paper only, the bleed-through is not pronounced enough to go through to the next sheet of paper. Also, the paper is very white, and makes a nice contrast with most inks.
The pens that the paper worked the best with were these:
Uniball Signo 207 Retractable Gel Ink Pen
Uniball 0.5 Jetstream
Pilot Hi-Tec C Maica
Sanrio Hello Kitty gel pen
Uniball Hello Kitty Crystal Ballpoint Multi-Pen
Pilot G-2 (with teal ink)
There will 2 gel pens I tried that bled through the paper:
Pilot Choose Gel Ink Pen
and a "mystery" gel pen that my husband's co-worker gave him (not labeled with a maker, but the quality of the ink was similar to that of the Pilot Choose pen).
Anyway, it looks like it will be a fun notebook for anyone who would like a notebook for certain gel pens, ballpoint pens, and pencils.
The notebook cost me about $5.50 or so. It seems to be discontinued.
When I was up in St. Louis visiting my folks, I went into a Big Lots store with my Mom. I took a look at the stationery aisle as I had read that people sometimes found Kokuyo notebooks there. I picked up a "Day Runner Life Tracker" notebook that in many ways resembles a Midori Traveler's Notebook except that it has a plastic cover and a different kind of rubber band/elastic (Chris Davis uses these with his notebooks). It is advertised as customizable, with calendars, expense logs, address books, etc. The one I bought contained three notebooks: a ruled notebook, a graph paper notebook, and a plain paper notebook.
I was curious about the paper and whether it would work well with fountain pens. The short answer is it will not. No matter how fine the nib, there was a good bit of bleed through, and in many instances, this was true of gel pens, too. I tried the following pens:
Jinhao Elegant Writer with a medium nib
Pilot Custom 74 with a fine nib
Lamy AL Star with a fine nib
TWSBI Mini with an extra-fine nib
I will say though, that if you want to write on one side of the paper only, the bleed-through is not pronounced enough to go through to the next sheet of paper. Also, the paper is very white, and makes a nice contrast with most inks.
The pens that the paper worked the best with were these:
Uniball Signo 207 Retractable Gel Ink Pen
Uniball 0.5 Jetstream
Pilot Hi-Tec C Maica
Sanrio Hello Kitty gel pen
Uniball Hello Kitty Crystal Ballpoint Multi-Pen
Pilot G-2 (with teal ink)
There will 2 gel pens I tried that bled through the paper:
Pilot Choose Gel Ink Pen
and a "mystery" gel pen that my husband's co-worker gave him (not labeled with a maker, but the quality of the ink was similar to that of the Pilot Choose pen).
Anyway, it looks like it will be a fun notebook for anyone who would like a notebook for certain gel pens, ballpoint pens, and pencils.
The notebook cost me about $5.50 or so. It seems to be discontinued.