Stationery Review: Lochby A5 Field Journal, Tool Roll and Tomoe River Notebooks

December 11, 2019 in Stationery Review

Three reviews in one! Lochby, based in the US, offer three groupings of products: a Tool Roll, an A5 Field Journal, and three different A5 Tomoe River Notebooks. The Tool Roll is a pen-wrap type product that has some extra pockets and different ways of folding or wrapping; the Field Journal reminds me a lot of a Travelers’ Notebook for A5 paper; and the A5 Notebook refills are rather self evident!

I saw these products on Instagram once and thought they looked really interesting. Not too long after that Chris, founder of Lochby, reached out for me to review them, so thank you to Chris for sending these out!

Stationery Review: Galen Leather Zippered Notebook Folio - Crazy Horse Brown

November 11, 2019 in Stationery Review

Galen Leather Co. are a family company based in Istanbul, Turkey which has been around for only 7 years, since 2012, but they feel like such a staple today having blown up in popularity. I bought my first Galen Leather product in mid 2018 and and have been delighted to buy and use more since (with another product from them on the way as I write this). They make excellent products that are evocative and nostalgia inspiring for people who love to use analogue as well as appropriating that aesthetic for the digital realm. So far I’ve loved all the stuff I’ve used (or seen in the hands friends).

Big thanks to Galen Leather for sending this Leather Zippered Notebook A5 Folio (as well as the the notebooks and brass items) for review.

Notebook Review: Endless Recorder "The World's Most Ink Friendly Notebook"

September 04, 2019 in Paper Review, Paper Comparison

The Endless Recorder is an A5 hardcover notebook made with what I believe is 68gsm Tomoe River paper. The Notebook, that was sent to me by The Pen World in India, is full featured and without burying the lede too much it is definitely fountain pen friendly.

Notebook Review: Pebble Stationery Co. A5 Cahier Tomoe River Notebook

July 05, 2019 in Paper Review

I wrote about Pebble Stationery Co.’s Pocket Tomoe River Notebooks almost 8 months ago and they just recently announced their newest notebook Kickstarter (after the previous was successful) to fund a 120 page A5 52gsm Tomoe River Notebook in the same basic design as the Pocket notebook . This A5 Notebook goes by the name of Cahier of which Pebble Stationery Co. sent me a pre-production model to review.

There have already been a couple of reviews of this product but like my previous review I’ll be going in depth with many photos as well as an update on how well the Pocket Notebook has handled after 9 months of it being my EDC notebook.

As with their first campaign Pebble Stationery Co. will be donating a pencil to Pens for Kids UK for every notebook backed.

Notebook Review: Bookbinders Design Cloth Notebook

October 22, 2017 in Paper Review

Bookbinders Design is a Melbourne based store that make their own notebooks and other paper products and also sell some other fine stationary products. They approached me to review one of their notebooks. The notebook I received is this 210 x 240 mm Cloth Bound Hardcover Notebook. Bookbinders Design offer a variety of colours and I was sent a red one.

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