Pignastyl Metal-Stiched Notepad

my inks · January 29, 2017

I wrote up my experience with the notepad here, but since it's in Hungarian, I thought I'd post a summarized English review here as well.

One of the only few shops that carry fountain pen friendly stuff here, started selling this notepad by Pigna (Italian company) for the 3rd of the price of a Rhodia pad (local prices). I bought one out of curiosity because the price is just a little more than 1$, so there wasn't much to lose. I haven't been using Rhodia for a long time, in fact I bought the 2 pads the same day, but as first time using comparison showed, they are very much alike. I write with fine nibs, but I tried and flexed my Nib Creaper on it too, and I don't see any bleed through or feathering either. The only word that had some issue is the Diamine's written with Brandy Dazzle, but the rest of the text is completely fine, so maybe the paper have these little spots where it's not perfect.

Not claiming the paper is as good as Rhodia, time will tell, but definitely worth to check if you can. I never used Pigna before with fountain pens, so apologies if this is not new information.

I don't have a very good scanner, but hope the image shows what I said. Also, in my original blog post I uploaded my other papers too for comparison (Rhodia, Maruman and my newest IKEA notebook), if anyone s interested to see how those were scanned.

http://i.imgur.com/Y3frtik.jpg

January 29, 2017

Thank you for sharing!

January 30, 2017

Thanks for the review. I don't know the brand at all but will keep an eye out for it locally.

February 6, 2017

Hi dragorsi,

What do they mean by "Metal-Stitched"? Does it have something to do with the binding?

Thanks, David

February 6, 2017

Hi dragorsi,

What do they mean by "Metal-Stitched"? Does it have something to do with the binding?

Thanks, David

I assumed he meant stapled but let's await the explanation. I could be wrong.

February 6, 2017

They look stapled with a tape cover over the staples

my inks · February 7, 2017

Yes, sorry couldn't reply sooner. From the look of it, it looks exactly how the Rhodia pads are stapled, just calling them like this might sound fancier (lol)

http://i.imgur.com/TykKWb8.jpg

February 13, 2017

I use Pigna Nature A4 wire notebooks. I can say they are very FP friendly, no bleeding through, no feathering.

March 2, 2017

Interesting, something to harass my italian friends to get. Luckily it's not an english speaking company, there I was thinking "wow it's called Pig Nasty L".

my inks · March 2, 2017

Haha I only giggled at the pig part

A little to add, since I've been using them for a while. Last time I ordered wire-bound ones too because they didin't have blanks in the stiched version. Not sure if it's the blank paper or the wire-bounds, but I find these not as good as the stiched ones.

Plus, the big A/4 stiched ones have an inconsistent height for the perforation which is a little bothersome. I was writing a letter on the 2nd page and had to tore it off because I didn't notice the perforation at all, only later when I purposefully checked for it.

And something that isn't take away from the quality, just makes no sense to me. The color system they use on the covers is just for decoration, unfortunately they don't associate colors to certain type of rulings, which would be useful. I have a lined and blank one with the same green cover, so I always have to check which is which, can't just quickly grab them.