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bought a couple of these today.

 

i used to use Clairefontaine a lot (before I used fountain pens) and then switched to Moleskine when I started writing with a fountain pen (I know, totally backwards).

 

I've been having a round of bad paper luck lately and I found one of my old Clairefontaines in my journal stack with several blank pages in it. I took several pens to it and I was very impressed.

 

I grabbed a red and a brown one at Art Brown today. I like the size and binding and the more subdued look. I wish they were graphed though. The ruling is very wide. But we'll see if I get used to it.

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I grabbed a red and a brown one at Art Brown today. I like the size and binding and the more subdued look. I wish they were graphed though. The ruling is very wide. But we'll see if I get used to it.

 

They do come in the graph paper, at least the Basic/Age Bag one does.

The ruled versions are probably my least favorite. I greatly prefer either blank or graph.

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I grabbed a red and a brown one at Art Brown today. I like the size and binding and the more subdued look. I wish they were graphed though. The ruling is very wide. But we'll see if I get used to it.

 

They do come in the graph paper, at least the Basic/Age Bag one does.

The ruled versions are probably my least favorite. I greatly prefer either blank or graph.

 

I didn't see the graph variety at Art Brown, but these will be fine I'm sure

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Oh wow, that is excellent. Thanks for that I really want to try a couple of those now.....

 

thanks a lot! Now I have something else for my wish list.....

 

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Thanks for this review. I sell a bunch of different CF products on my website and I've special ordered some CF Basics before, but I haven't used them myself. This is part of why I love FPN, because the people on here are so knowledgeable and generous sharing their experiences. I sell quite a few CF staplebounds and Quo Vadis Habanas, and Rhodia Webbies, but I had initially stayed away from the Basics because I thought they might be more for 'sketchers' than FP users. Thanks for changing my perspective. I might ask around and see if it might be a product my customers would be interested in seeing me carry regularly.

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but I had initially stayed away from the Basics because I thought they might be more for 'sketchers' than FP users.

Oh, not at all. I don't know if I'm in the minority, but I don't really love CF paper for sketching. I've used the Basics (I think it's also called the "age bag" in some places) for journals a couple of times. Actually it's my preference over the fancy colored covers, certainly over the hard covers.

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but I had initially stayed away from the Basics because I thought they might be more for 'sketchers' than FP users.

Oh, not at all. I don't know if I'm in the minority, but I don't really love CF paper for sketching. I've used the Basics (I think it's also called the "age bag" in some places) for journals a couple of times. Actually it's my preference over the fancy colored covers, certainly over the hard covers.

Huh, see that's good for me to know. I've heard the Exacompta Sketchbook is great for sketching. I have one but haven't tried it yet. Since I'm a pen maker (plus paper and ink pusher), I don't deal a lot with sketching stuff, or pencils or anything like that. So basically, the CF Basics are good for journalers? Is that what I'm learning here?

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