Stationery: pens, pencils, notebooks,etc.

[stadsvandringar]

Postalco make some of the best stationary out there. But costs $$$$.

[t-a]

don't have a picture right now, but I use a field notes notbook with an assortmant of pigment liner / brush pens in a nock co case.

 

Good to just throw in my bag and not worry about.

[034936]

moleskins are shite.  but since it looks like you dont use fountain pens you get a pass.  I have the same lava and 600!

 

 

U guys both using a $300 pen? what's the story with these?

[Dropt]

I struggle to see the point of putting more than $50 in a ballpoint pen (the first to make a stupid analogy with clothes get the neg).

 

I use Copic multiliners or Muji pen & passport sketchbooks - they fit everywhere when I need to take a trip. And since I sketch a lot I want something cheap to use in quantity.

Edited March 17, 2014 by Dropt

[ilovefriedchicken]

U guys both using a $300 pen? what's the story with these?

 

mine is a pencil, his is a ballpoint.

i got mine for less than $100. i cant speak for the other guy

i think the fountain pens definitely go for $200+ from a quick ebay scan but pencils can still be copped sub$150 easily

 

i think the lava series was manufactured from mid80s - early90s.  original msrp iirc was somewhere between $70 and $90 which adjusted for inflation is still pretty expensive.  anything left on ebay or pen forums is NOS or from someones collection.  the demand for rotring lava gear is pretty high so thats why sellers get away with jacking up prices

 

anyways the pencil isnt particularly amazing from a technical ergonomical standpoint.  it has a retractable tip so the regular 600s made today might actually write more stably.  something like a pentel graphgear is probably better in functionality and WAY better in value.  still the lava finish is so damn sexy.  if you insist all your shit be draped up and dripped out not just clothingwise like me its an mustcop 

Edited March 19, 2014 by ilovefriedchicken

[ilovefriedchicken]

I struggle to see the point of putting more than $50 in a ballpoint pen (the first to make a stupid analogy with clothes get the neg).

 

I use Copic multiliners or Muji pen & passport sketchbooks - they fit everywhere when I need to take a trip. And since I sketch a lot I want something cheap to use in quantity.

 

i agree about your points ballpoint pens.  partly because i hate them but i digress.  Still, fountain pens and other liquid based ink pens are not viable options at all for carbon copy lab notebooks and other forms of paper.  I have a rotring rapid pro for those awful instances i have to write on non fountain pen compatible paper...

 

still under $50 so not being a total hypocrite i guess...

[mr.invincible]

im thinking of picking up a rotring ball point pen but still searching around to see if i can change it up a bit

[mr.invincible]

Do any of you have recommendations for a cheap, quality pen? I've been using a .5 Pilot G-2 but I think I could find something I like better. It's a bit too inky for me.

 

stick with ball points then?

[FiggRow]

I know nothing about notebooks or pens or pencils. Looking for a nice notebook to keep as a daily journal (love leather ones). Maybe even a small leather one with graph paper for my engr courses. A nice drafting pencil and a daily pen. Any good stables for all 4 items?

[mr.invincible]

jetpens.com

 

and then amazon it.

[FiggRow]

Ill check it out. Ive been thinking about getting a rite in the rain notebook, although i don't need to write in the rain its nice to have. Might buy the space pen ... so i can write in space wile its raining

[aso2004]

Spacepen  writes horribly on a write in the rain in the rain...

 

Trust me.. I tried...A pencil works though

[lmk1995]

edit

Edited January 10, 2022 by littlemike

[dimmak]

http://gridzzly.com

 

Cool site I found. Let's you print out your own dot pads. The Rhodia ones are pretty expensive and I prefer to use looseleaf anyway, so this site is pretty awesome if you're into dot paper but want to customize/don't want to pay a lot.

[FiggRow]

I bought the leuchtturm1917 A6 dots instead of rite in the rain, Its coming in Monday. Also I heard people prefer the dots on the Leuchtturm because the ones on the Rhodia are to far spaced. But anyways I also made my own hand made pens when I was in middle school. Ill take a picture of them with my notebook. Ones made of cocobolo the other deer horns and idk the third; however they were all hand turned on a lathe by me

[madame twerq]

 

david foster wallace's wide ruled spiral bound notebook

i wonder if he used yellow pencils

[Magsåvningsreserven]

copped bluegreen al-star because it's sick an tiiiing

Edited April 10, 2014 by Magsåvningsreserven

[CASSAVA PIECE]

this is a good japanese blog for pencil enthusiasts

 

http://chair.blog4.fc2.com/

[twistedtrees]

I got on a pen streak a few years back. Some of the guys in the EDC thread have some really good collections. One of them got me into the Pentel Tradio line that you can get at jetpens.com. The Body of the pen is a very light (feels kinda cheap) plastic, but it's matte finish which is nice. But replacable ink cartridges in .7 and .5 mm I think. The pen's like $8 and refills like $1.50. It writes so smooth and doesn't smear which is my main criteria.

 

 

Oh, and I got the matte black Fisher Space Pen. Decently smooth writing. I like it's compactness, but have found that the pen top doesn't stay on the back when I'm writing. And sometimes the clip pops off. But it's got a nice solid feel in your hand, not too light, not too big

 

I do like the look of the Larny Safari tho

Edited April 24, 2014 by twistedtrees

[Magsåvningsreserven]

what inks do the fountain pen crewe like?

 

i wanted to cop the sailor guro for the ridiculously deep, stygian black but then i got scared of potential cloggings. looking for a nice black/green too...

[samsikle]

 

paper: Carrefour cahier (lolll), Muji notebook, Moleskine Peanuts Agenda

writing: Lamy Safari Pencil & Fountain Pens, Noodler's Ink Ahab Flex Fountain Pen, Pilot G2

ink: Parker's Quink

[ilovefriedchicken]

what inks do the fountain pen crewe like?

 

i wanted to cop the sailor guro for the ridiculously deep, stygian black but then i got scared of potential cloggings. looking for a nice black/green too...

 

i've used most of the top regarded blacks but i really think sailor nano ultrablack and platinum carbon are the best of the bunch.  

 

i use the sailor right now.  its actually not the deepest black but blows out of the water almost any other black ink in all other categories.  extremely bulletproof (makes noodler bulletproof seem like an apron), minimal nib creep, extremely fast drying, pretty much waterproof, never clogs, and flows ridiculously smoothly.

 

amazingly, it also doesnt bleed through shitty moleskines.  probably the only fountain pen ink i know of that can make that claim.  it is pretty expensive though

 

for colored options check out pilot iroshizuku series.  imo the absolute best colored inks.  i use the ku-jaka.

[ilovefriedchicken]

anyone have any experience with "repap" or "limestone" paper? i'm tempted to cop an ogami notebook bc in theory i'd be writing on a stone slate.

 

if its just an eco-friendly gimmick and isnt that great to write on i'll pass

 

http://www.jetpens.com/Ogami-Professional-Notebooks-Soft-Cover/ct/2063

[otlyaa]

i haven't bought that many pens, but i like to use rollerball pens for sketching and writing notes.  They are pretty inky and can feather on some papers. the ones i've tried dry slower but i don't have the tendency to swipe so i don't really have a problem with smudging. 

 

currently my most-used is the Pilot Precise v5, a 0.5mm rollerball. it's funny cus i only started using this after i borrowed it from my mom.  i like the v5 alright but i'm trying to find a better pen for drawing. it kinda leaks sometimes from the reservoir , however, i much prefer the ink-flow of a rollerball to a ballpoint gel pen. those are always very skippy for me. i sometimes use dip-pens for drawing too, with drawing inks like speedball and sumi ink.

 

anyone else use rollerball pens got a rec? i'm thinking of trying the Ohto graphic liners soon. i dunno. i would spend more too i guess but i don't want to buy a sorry 30$ pen.

[mr.invincible]

anyone have any experience with "repap" or "limestone" paper? i'm tempted to cop an ogami notebook bc in theory i'd be writing on a stone slate.

 

if its just an eco-friendly gimmick and isnt that great to write on i'll pass

 

http://www.jetpens.com/Ogami-Professional-Notebooks-Soft-Cover/ct/2063

 

32 sheets for $15 bucks ....thats hard for me to pull the trigger

[Schoon]

Just spent a good half hour looking for this notebook, got nowhere.  Damn is it cool

 

[kubrick]

i backed this recently

 

looks promising.... 

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timtwo/sketchynotebook

[mr.invincible]

 

 

http://hypebeast.com/2014/6/monteverde-multi-tool-stylus-pen

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00EYNN0UG/uncrate-20

 

 

looks solid

[grill & chill]

 

the usual gear!

 

i really love frixion pens, they're excellent for dumb people like me who always makes mistakes!

the mildliner pens i got are pretty cool too, they're muted colored highlighters and they look great on paper ˚✧₊âŽ( ˘ω˘ )âŽâºË³âœ§à¼š

[ilovefriedchicken]

 

 

http://hypebeast.com/2014/6/monteverde-multi-tool-stylus-pen

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00EYNN0UG/uncrate-20

 

 

looks solid

 

if youre some sort of engineer who does a lot of drafting this would probably be great

 

i will say this though...

 

its a blatant rotring ripoff lol

 

knurled grip check, hexagonal body check

why not add a fcking red stripe lol