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I'm not sure if this is covered anywhere else on the forum, but I've recently been in contact with Olivia at Elia Note whose lovely journals many of you will be familiar with.  I asked her what the situation is with Tomoe River, the company who supply her with the paper she uses (and the main reason I buy from her).  Apparently the company has now been sold to Sanzen who will continue to produce the paper.  I don't know any more details.  At the moment Olivia is just producing 68gsm products but she tells me 52gsm will shortly be back.  As ever she has been both courteous and cooperative, always a delight to deal with.

 

This may be common knowledge already but if it isn't,  I hope it puts a smile on the faces of those like me who thought TR paper might become a thing of the past.   It probably isn't.   If anyone has any more detail on this I'd be interested to know.

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Hi, and nice to meet another TR 52gsm enthusiast...

There are a number of threads on the topic of the future of our favorite paper. You'd probably find most of them if you use google or another external search engine to search the site, although maybe the search capabilities have improved a little?

It seems mostly we have to be patient... but there will be more of it, eventually.

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5 hours ago, Firecrest said:

If anyone has any more detail on this I'd be interested to know.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/search/?&q=Sanzen

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7 hours ago, Firecrest said:

I'm not sure if this is covered anywhere else on the forum, but I've recently been in contact with Olivia at Elia Note whose lovely journals many of you will be familiar with.  I asked her what the situation is with Tomoe River, the company who supply her with the paper she uses (and the main reason I buy from her).  Apparently the company has now been sold to Sanzen who will continue to produce the paper.  I don't know any more details.  At the moment Olivia is just producing 68gsm products but she tells me 52gsm will shortly be back.  As ever she has been both courteous and cooperative, always a delight to deal with.

 

This may be common knowledge already but if it isn't,  I hope it puts a smile on the faces of those like me who thought TR paper might become a thing of the past.   It probably isn't.   If anyone has any more detail on this I'd be interested to know.

There recently was a discussion about Tomoe problems on Reddit. See this link (look for u/duvangrgataonea/

 

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Gee, I wonder if it's old stock with quality issues or possibly new stock with a change in the manufacturing process?

Either way it is sad to see that kind of performance, especially with an EF nib.

 

Wishing things change for the better soon.

 

Also, thank you for the updated information.

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In the podcast "Tokyo Inklings" the presenters (CY and Jacob) who live and work in Japan, have some contact with the Sanzen company etc, and have been following the Tomoe River story.

 

They have covered developments within various past episodes that I have listened to. (All past episodes are available for downloading.)

A recent episode from two months ago is titled "New New Tomoe River".

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Thank you for sharing.

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