Leuchtturm 1917 - The Next Moleskine?

[Nyanzilla]

I got three Leuchtturm notebooks, and all were made in different countries and all have different paper.

For my purposes I cannot complain as I'm usually writing with fine or medium nibs and blue or black inks whicht don't bleed much even on cheaper paper.

But recently I bought a couple of cheap notebooks which cost 1/5 of the leuchtturm price and have a slightly inferior paper quality, but still acceptable for me.

[Valkyrii]

I just purchased one of these and horribly disappointed. I don't care for Rhodia so much since I feel the paper is too smooth, so I figured the 1917 would make a good carry notebook capable of dealing with FP inks. After a few pages of bleed thru and feathering with every ink I tried, I shelved it with the few Moleskins I have for later use with a ballpoint or pencil.

 

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[Heldin]

I love my Leuchtturm plain a5 notebook and have no bleed through issues at all. I find the paper quality to be much better than the Moleskine paper quality.

 

I bought mine on ebay for cheap, though, so I didn't have much to loose when buying it. I think Paperblanks are even more fountain pen friendly, so if you're disappointed in Leuchtturm I would try a Paperblanks notebook .

[JakobS]

I have been writing in a A5 lined Leuchtturm with a TWSBI Eco 1.1mm nib, and have had no bleed through, or feathering with Diamine Schubert and Wagner inks. There is show through, but nothing that makes the back side of the page unusable. In my experience with a dozen Moleskine notebooks, in at least four or five different varieties, the paper in the A5 lined Leuchtturm is far superior. Though these inks appear to hold up decently with the Moleskine notebooks I have at hand, they do feather a bit (spider-webbing?) compared to the Leuchtturm. I also have a Rhodia Color A5(No.16) notebook with Schubert in it, and the line width, see through, and lack of feathering is very similar to that seen in the Leuchtturm. This maybe a matter of luck of the draw, and possible manufacturing differences between factories, or it can be a matter of different inks and wetness of nibs, but compared to my Moleskine notebooks, I do not find myself wanting to write in something else. In fact, I want to write more and more when using this notebook, and with me being currently stuck in moving onto the next part of the story I am writing is quite annoying!

Edited October 30, 2016 by JakobS

[inkfade]

I have a couple of Leuchtturm A5 notebooks. I've only ever had some showthrough with them, using a variety of inks in XF and F nibs. I did, however, purchase a Leuchtturm pocket jottbook. I had bleedthrough with DA Aubergine on that one.