(Cheap Find) Mead Quad-Ruled Wireless Neatbook

[KBeezie]

Was looking around for a FP-friendly gridded paper that was cheap for just practicing on. Picked this up at the local Meijers for 1.99 (USD), no mention of what country the paper is manufactured in (most of the paper there in the store were either made in Vietnam or U.S.A., some in Canada). Product Page (I already sent them an email asking if they knew, or if they had a range of different countries, most of the other mead products said U.S.A.).

 

I noticed the customer reviews on the product page says it comes unglued too easily but I been tugging at sheets and they stay in, I usually crease the perforation before tearing them out.

 

The paper itself has a decent smoothness to it with all the pens I have (the Hero 616 was misbehaving though... no surprise there), seems to be minimal feathering with all but the wettest of the nibs.

 

Almost every line I wrote showed some bleeding, including the disposable rollerball I have. The worst being the Kaigelu 363, X450 with stub nib, Baoer 507, unbranded celluloid (with the JHerbin 1670 blue) and the rollerball, the rest I could live with as far as practice sheets go since it doesn't do it enough to distract from what's being written on top.

 

Drying seemed to be pretty decent as the line above dry as I was writing the current line(s).

 

For 1.99 it's acceptable and not feather-crazy like some of the other cheap notebooks, certainly does less feathering and bleeding than more expensive moleskin cahier notebooks (the kaigelu 363 bled right thru the moleskin, and almost every one of them feathered noticeably). It costs about 19$ to get the same size and number of sheets for moleskin but at lower quality.

[KBeezie]

*dupe*

Edited March 19, 2014 by KBeezie

[KBeezie]

Went back and got two more pads, while it's not that easy to see in the picture, there is a small issue of consistancy, like the one on the top right was much more yellow in person than the other two, where as the one on bottom right had much more blue rulings than the more grey of the one I originally got. (Haven't tried writing on the other two yet to see if there's a difference in feathering or bleed).

[KBeezie]

A scan between 3 different samples, So yea... while I lucked out on 2 of 3, I'll say CPP is pretty inconsistent in color and texture.

 

The first one I got was pretty smooth to write on, and decent to the touch and color. Also the thickest paper of the three.

Second one was the whitest, but also thinnest, glossiest feeling of the surface, but also had the most scratchy results from the finer pens.

Third one had the yellowest color of paper with more faint ruling, but was softer to the touch, and felt the smoothest with the nibs (marginally better than the first one).

 

So yea... inconsistent, and don't go for the brightest slickest surface one.

[KBeezie]

Larger size in case the above can't easily be seen: http://static.karlblessing.com/reviews/paper/cpp_samples.jpg

 

Feathering seems a little higher on the two 'softer' ones (first and third), but not so scratchy.