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Arkanabar Antique

Arkanabar

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I make a virtue out of being easily pleased. For the foreseeable future, my journaling (which is pretty lightweight anyway) is in 70 sheet broad ruled Norcom spiral notebooks, which have gone from 10c to 17c to 25c each at WalMart in the time I've been buying them.

When they run out, I'll probably start using my 2-3 reams of used 20lb 88 brightness Georgia Pacific Basic all-purpose inkjet/laser copy paper that I've only printed on one side, like I am currently using for notes in school. I'll probably keep carrying it in a nice, heavyweight 1" vinyl ringbinder that originally held a technical manual, that I have had since the early 80s. My dad salvaged it from where he worked.

If/when that runs out, I'll start using 32lb HP Laser paper that I'll print both sides with dotlines at 3/inch or dot grids at 8mm (using an inkjet), three-hole punch, and keep in a pocket folder inside my cheap plastic clipboard box, which I may embellish with a soft writing mat, provided I can find a suitable adhesive. Writing on the left side of a ringbinder is nigh unto torture. Or I may look for 16lb paper, carry it in the binder, and give no thought to using the backside atall.

Waypoints on the Inky Journey (aka the Six Seven Essential Inks)

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WHO EVER. STARTED THIS WHOLE LARGE FONT IS YELLING, THING IS JUST SILLY. ITS JUST TYPING. ITS EASIER TO SEE.😀😀

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WHO EVER. STARTED THIS WHOLE LARGE FONT IS YELLING, THING IS JUST SILLY. ITS JUST TYPING. ITS EASIER TO SEE.😀😀

WELL, I DONT CARE IF ITS EASIER TO SEE. DONT YOU BE LARGE TYPING AT ME!!😀😀

I KID, I KID. NAMO, THIS ISNT DIRECTED AT YOU. If every body thinks it means you are yelling at them they may be offended.😀😀

DONT BE PIGEON HOLED INTO TYPING ONE CERTAIN WAY.😀😀

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tartuffo

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RPB, that is a really pretty pen. What is it?

 

 

I think it's a Nakaya Dorsal Fin 1

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Ink Stained Wretch

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That looks like a nice journal. I used to like them with that narrow ruing. I still have a bunch of "college ruled" notebooks. But as my eyes have aged I have needed to go to wide ruled pages exclusively :( . I am not having fun if I need to hold a magnifying glass in my hand while I write; that's even less fun than just using a magnifying glass to read what I've written in the past on those narrow lines.

On a sacred quest for the perfect blue ink mixture!

ink stained wretch filling inkwell

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That looks like a nice journal. I used to like them with that narrow ruing. I still have a bunch of "college ruled" notebooks. But as my eyes have aged I have needed to go to wide ruled pages exclusively :( . I am not having fun if I need to hold a magnifying glass in my hand while I write; that's even less fun than just using a magnifying glass to read what I've written in the past on those narrow lines.

 

Yeah I know what you mean. I have no issues with the ruling in the Design-Y journals. I need reading glasses anyway so cannot write without those. Certainly can't read without em! lol

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I don't write a Journal but thought it would be interesting to have one

to practice in as an alternative to using A4 loose paper.

 

So I bought two A5 size.

 

A little less expensive than the design Y are the Tomoe River journals

starting to sprout up all over. The Black one is from "The Paper Cuts"

and the Red one from "Nanami".

 

http://i.imgur.com/tUGBAtz.png

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Great books. The Nanami paper Tomoe River paper journals are superb too. The Seven Seas Writer is their name for it as I like lined paper.

Nice writing tartuffo.

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Great books. ......

Nice writing tartuffo.

 

Thanks rbp, nice Dorsal Fin ll .

I hesitated too long over buying the matt black one

and sometimes

he who hesitates loses out on buying a Dorsal Fin ll

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