Currently using
Last updated January 14 2021!
I have a list of Canadian fountain pen + accessory vendors here.
Notebooks, sketchbooks, paper
| Use case | Brand | Size/model | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 planner | Midori MD | A5 Notebook light | 48 pages |
| Daily journal | NTU | A5 Kraft brown notebook | 64 pages |
| Commonplace book | Midori MD | A5 notebook gridded | ~40/176 pages used |
| Creative notebook | Wai Au | ? Shiba Inu cover, cross grid ? | ~83/168 pages used |
| HWA 4-panel comics | Plenty Steps | A5 Info & Sketch BOOK | ~16/40 pages used |
| Scrappy watercolour | Seawhite | ? William Holman Hunt cover, spiral bound ? | ~34/50 pages used |
| Writing letters | Life | Via Airmail | ?/50 |
| Futzing with inks | Sakae Technical Paper | A4 Tomoe River 52gsm loose leaf white and cream, handbound to A5/A6 booklets | ? |
So many books waiting for next round use: Rhodia, Clairefontaine, Life, Life x Kleid, Maruman Mnemosyne, Delfonics Rollbahn, Laika Línea, Kyokuto F.O.B., Logical Prime, more Midori MDs, etc.
Fountain pens and inks
| Brand | Model | Nib | Ink |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamy | Safari (yellow) | F | Sailor Kobe #21 Taisanji Yellow |
| Pilot | Metropolitan (lizard, bronze) | M | Waterman Absolute Brown |
| TWSBI | Eco (clear) | 1.1mm stub | J. Herbin Diabolo Menthe |
| Platinum | Carbon Desk Pen (black, manually cut down) | EF | Platinum Carbon Black |
| Opus 88 | Omar (yellow) | M | Lamy Turmaline |
| Ranga | Regular Sugarcane (olive ebonite, matte, eyedropper) | Kanwrite flex | Diamine Meadow |
| Pilot | Kakuno (green/gray) | M | Sailor Kobe Sannomiya Panse |
| Sailor | HighAce Neo Calligraphy | 2.0mm | Empty |
| FPR | Himalaya v2 GT (Saffron Orange) | Ultraflex | FPR Royal Flush Blue |
| FPR | Himalaya v2 (Taj Mahal White) | 1.0mm stub | Not working |
| Pelikan | 400 NN (green striped), vintage/used (1950-1960s) | M, 14k gold | Diamine Wagner |
| Pilot | Elite 95s (burgundy, Japanese market version) | EF, 14k gold | Sailor Kobe #27 Kounan Maroon |
| Oliver Exam | ? Piston filler (clear) | ? | J Herbin 1670 Emeraude de Chivor |
| Pelikan | M400 Souverän (black red) | F, 14k gold | Diamine Oxblood |
| Platinum | Preppy (clear) | 0.3 | Stock cartridge |
| TA+d | Fiber Black | F | Noodler's Eel Cactus Fruit |
I also have some other sample tubes that I'll eventually get through...
Other writing/drawing stuff
| Brand | Model | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Deleter | Free Pen holder | Use it for dip nibs and even some lino carving cutter heads haha |
| Tachikawa | Nikko G | For inks that don't go in my fountain pens |
| Pentel | Energel Infree 0.5 | Fast drying ink, apparently |
| Pentel | Fude pocket brush pen and Fude brush pen | I've had these forever... |
| Uni | Kuru Toga mechanical pencil 0.5mm | Sharp point forever! |
| Pilot | Color Eno 0.7mm | Exclusively for erasable blue lead... |
| Stabilo | Left Right mechanical pencil 2mm | For fattier lead |
| Prismacolor | Travel sharpener | Weirdest stubby cigar shape but it works and keeps shavings contained. Inside looks like a magnesium Kum sharpener |
| Prismacolor | Col Erase in various colours (terra cotta, light green, scarlet red, white, non-photo blue) | TBH these are only marginally more erasable, so still looking for better ones |
I have so much more than this but this is...the top of the pile.
Book and zine-making
| Brand | Model | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Olfa | Small stationery cutter | Cut all the paper... |
| Lineco | Bone folder | Fold and score all the zines/books! |
| Durodex | 200-DX stack cutter | Wai did the research on this and recommended! |
| Max | HD-10V 2-way stapler | Industrial design genius, SOOO much better than those huge and heavy long-arm staplers (if your zines are small) |
| Gruschwitz | Bookbinding no. 30/3 linen thread | I just switched to this from Lineco bookbinding thread (way more affordable)... |
Other favourites
| Brand | Model | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Philips | Sonicare BreathRx tongue scaper | Life changing!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Backnife | Ceramic utility knife | Super slim, light, and easy to carry for the times where you need to cut something (also Canadian-owned!) |
| OK-Bon | Compression wraps | Magical fabric that endlessly self adheres, but is soft. I use a thin wrap to put around a wrist brace splint for wrist stabilization |
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