What Do You Do When Paper Is Too Crappy For A Fp

[andreasn]

What do you do when you buy a notebook or pack of paper that is so crappy that use with a fp would be a pain. Maybe you bought a bad notebook by mistake or someone gives you a stone paper notebook as a gift or if you are forced to use copier paper.Do you just admit defeat and use a ballpoint, maybe you have a nice one for this purpose or do you have some clever solution to the problem.

 

Just curious.

[Ted A]

Origami, maybe?

[inn3rs3lf]

It's winter here in South Africa, so there is always a need for tinder...

[PAKMAN]

Toss it out and get better paper! Actually sometimes with dry ink and fine nibs you can write on about anything. I fill out newspaper crosswords every day with my fountain pens.

[The Blue Knight]

Use a pencil. As much I like fountain pens I find a good mechanical will get used more often as it is nearly hassle free only needing to top it up 2 or 3 times a year.

[Sasha Royale]

Copy paper ? We use to have "crappy" copy paper. I gave Dave Schossberg a Parker 45. He loves it. Dave orders office supplies.

He now orders Aspen 60 24# paper for our copiers. Coincidentally, it's fp friendly.

 

I don't feel the need to use bad paper.

Or drink "cheesy" milk.

Or eat fuzzy-green bologna.

[mAsTeRmInD-L]

No way to give up my fountain pens, absolutely not.

 

I will try my hard fine point M600 with Noodler's black on it. If that doesn't work, I will just trash it surreptitiously, and get back to my Apica and Rhodia.

 

- L

[JotterAddict62]

Take and use it in the outhouse.

[zepp]

do math on the notebook with a pencil

[Bo Bo Olson]

You crumble it up, put it in the bottom of a charcoal starter and you have solved a BBQ problem for a couple of years.

 

Ball points, pencils ....and mark down in your mind.....cut out the identifier and paste it on the edge of your monitor, so you will not buy that crud again....you don't really have to tattoo it on your palm, the back of the hand does just as well.

 

Occasionally, I buy paper for my fountain pen that is no good. I put it in my laser printer.

Edited July 15, 2014 by Bo Bo Olson

[mirosc]

remember the weather?

there is no bad paper, just a bad writing tool

Pencils are great for such a job, if I still don't like it there's always the need for paper planes

Edited July 15, 2014 by mirosc

[shuuemura]

I use my Montblanc ballpoint - always a pleasure to write with the smooth refill.

[Beckwith]

Cry

[penrivers]

Cant say, but, in other way what is the sick reason I or we, love the silky white or cream color paper wraping any kind of things boxed with new shoes, pens, paper , shirts, ties or handkerchiefs inside

and we don't want to throw it away in the garbish can and seeing it we dream in its posibilites for write in them good short stories and poems or well just challigraphy excersises ?.

Edited July 16, 2014 by penrivers

[FountainPages]

Tinder...fire starter, use with pencil, give it to wife for use with her Bexley rollerball. She don't care fo' fountain penning.

[Mr. Pink]

Give it to your brother-in-law.

[william2001]

"...Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane." Like my signature on the bottom says.

I would buy a new paper, and not use a ballpoint.

-William S. Park

[Mezzie]

I give it to students. Of course, then I end up having to write comments on those sheets of paper, but it's better than trying to write a letter on it. I've given away about five spiral notebooks in the past couple days (purchased pre-fountain pen conversion). Students were happy, and I didn't have to throw anything out.

[Taiin]

Some charities accept donations of school supplies to make care packages for lower income students. I'd assume there might be one local for you, unless you are quite remote. Notebooks missing only a few pages (from testing with a FP, I'd assume) would be fantastic to donate. School supply lists always seem to be growing, so anything helps.

[Montblanc owner and lover]

if i can i don't use it. If not possible i try to apply the least presure possible so i don't ruin my nib and i put the least possible paper pieces on it and after i've written i check my nib to withdraw immedialy the little pieces of paper that can be on the nib.