Montblanc And Oxford Notebooks

[fpupulin]

Yesterday, when in an art-store searching for a paintbrush for my wife, I casually saw some small notebooks by the brand Oxford, and I bought one for my daughter (a Pinstripes Grey & blue, 90x140 mm) and another for me (Pinstripes Light brown, 90x170 mm). Likely, most of you already know them, but for me they were totally new. Once at home, we checked the "friendliness" of the notebooks with our fountain pens (a new MB 146 EF my daughter received from me for her eighteenth birthday, with Parker Quick Red ink and a 1994 MB 149 EF with Pelikan brilliant black). What a surprise! I am attaching the sample of a few written pages. The paper, 90 gr, is white, and shows no bleed at all through the pages, neither with the Pelikan black nor the Parker red. I checked their product line at www.my-oxford.com, which in turn ask you to select one of their regional sites: UK, Poland, Spain, Italy, France, and Germany. I surfed UK and Spain and apparently they have a quite large choice of notebooks, diaries, etc. The Spanish site particularly stress the fact "en los cuadernos Oxford la tinta no traspasa" (in Oxford notebooks the ink do not bleeds). I can confirm it.

[uzkntuocmw]

Have you compared drying times on Oxford paper with other brands? Perhaps it's just coincidence, I've noticed quite a few smears with various different inks in my Oxford notebook, and I've never seen that on Clairefontaine paper. Which is a shame, because Oxford notebooks are much easier to find...

[draeroheli]

Beautiful hand witting. Oxford Paper is my favorite. Thank you for sharing especially for their web site and the ink leak for the reverse site. Cheers! Htin

[fpupulin]

Have you compared drying times on Oxford paper with other brands? Perhaps it's just coincidence, I've noticed quite a few smears with various different inks in my Oxford notebook, and I've never seen that on Clairefontaine paper. Which is a shame, because Oxford notebooks are much easier to find...

 

You are right, and I had not taken into consideration drying times. I have not many other notebooks to compare with, but I'm posting a comparative scan between Oxford and Moleskine sketch book (my usual notebook, with 140 gr paper). As you can see, there are sometimes variations within the same sample, but in general Pelikan brilliant black ink, with a MB 149 EF nib, dries between 8 and 10 seconds on the Moleskine, while on Oxford paper it takes almost 90" to dry out. Times are probably longer on both papers with my other preferred black, Aurora black, that is smoother.

[kaisede]

I just want to say beautiful hand writing.

[Juan in Andalucia]

I have some of those notebooks; they come in sets of 3 with different colors and the pinstripe pattern. I haven't started one yet because I have way too many notebooks going on.

 

Juan

[torstar]

Dilute the ink, then it dries.

 

No muss, no fuss.

[meiers]

Thanks for sharing. I am going to look for Oxford notebooks.

[Juan in Andalucia]

I have some of those notebooks; they come in sets of 3 with different colors and the pinstripe pattern. I haven't started one yet because I have way too many notebooks going on.

 

Juan

 

Sorry, they come in sets of 4.

 

Juan

[KJY]

Nice!

What a good variation of line-width with a EF!