I have a habit of buying a new notepad every now and again in search of one I well and truly like. Some are for the home desk, others the work desk, some get pocketed, and one hides in my laptop bag just in case. There are plenty of reviews on here for the different brands of paper and notebooks, so I don't think I'll waste everyone's time with another detailed review. Instead I wanted to group a bunch of these together so that people can more easily see the color difference and compare performance for feathering, bleed, show-through, shading, and sheen.
The pens / inks, top to bottom:
TWSBI 580AL w/ Broad PB BLS Cursive Italic - Pelikan Edelstein Topaz
Visconti Opera Master w/ Masuyama Tuned 18k Fine (writes Med) - Montblanc Twilight Blue
Visconti Homo Sapiens Steel Midi w/ 23k Fine - Homemade "Red921" (PR Fiesta Red, JH Rouge Hematite, MB Season's Greetings Brown)
Montblanc Chopin 145 w/ Medium Mottishaw Cursive Italic - Montblanc Permanent Blue
TWSBI 580AL w/ Medium PB BLS Cursive Italic - Sailor Tokiwa-Matsu
The paper, left to right and top to bottom:
Banditapple
Leuchtturm
Franklin-Christoph
Zequenz
Clairefontaine
Black n' Red
Apica
Rhodia
Labeled and stacked for color comparison:
Individual posts per paper / pad to follow....
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