Thursday Drops: New Midori Multi-Year Journals, Kuretake Karappo Pens, Teranishi Inks and More Midori MD Cotton!

Today’s Thursday Drops post is merely the first wave of post-Fountain Pen Day and pre-Holiday restocks, but it maybe the biggest. We recently received a large shipment from TRAVELER’S Company and Midori, including new 10th Anniversary versions of the 3-year and 5-year journals, as well as the latest Field Notes release, new pens from Tom’s Studio (including a Japanese brush tip that fits the fountain pens), and a bunch of new Kuratake fibre and brush pens.

[Update: As of this morning (Friday November 8), Teranishi Guitar Inks are in stock! I had hoped to have them listed yesterday but they arrived a bit late and it took most of yesterday to swatch and photograph the inks.]

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This quarter’s Field Notes Release features two groups of different covers, all featuring different bird illustrations by Rex Brasher.

Note that our physical brick-and-mortar shop will be closed Friday and Saturday this weekend, since we are traveling to the Chicago Planner Conference. (We’ll be with Vanness Pens, Hinze Pens, and the Well-Appointed Desk!) Come say hello if you are there! Online orders will continue to ship in our typical time frame, and we have special store hours today (10am-5pm) and Sunday (2-6pm) to compensate.

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1. Midori 10th Anniversary Kyo-Ori 3-Year and 5-Year Diaries. These beautiful special edition versions of the Midori Multi-Year Diaries feature two different fabrics. We also have the standard 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year journals in stock.

2. Teranishi Guitar Taisho Roman Haikara Inks. This series of 16 different Japanese inks spans the color spectrum and offers unique takes on different tones. From the swatches you will see that depending on the paper, many of the colors show some nice sheen, though it’s not overpowering.

3. Field Notes Birds and Trees of North America Edition. One of the editions that’s caused me to take another look at Field Notes! This

4. Kuretake Karappo Fineliners and Brush Pens. My obsession with customizable fineliners - and now, even finer, firm-tipped brush pens, continues! The Fibre-tipped pens feature a point similar to that in the Tom’s Studio Wren, and the Brush Pen is firm enough to write with. Available in the larger brush pen (with refillable cartridges) or the packs of five fibre or brushed-tipped pens.

5. Midori MD Cotton Writing Pads. These favorites are now available once again in A5 and A4 sizes. Midori MD Cotton is one of my favorite fountain pen friendly papers, and I’m happy to have it back in pad and notebook format.

6. TRAVELER’S Notebook Starter Kit Restock! We once again have nearly all the colors (save for Blue in the standard-size, which is on backorder). Now is a great time to pick up your dated (or undated) planner refills, as well as this year’s limited edition accessories including the “Trip and Love” folders, pencil boards, and sticker sets.

7. Tom’s Studio Wren Refillable Fibre-Tipped Pens. To say the Wren has been a smash hit is an understatement. These sold so quickly during Fountain Pen Day weekend that we’re already going to have to place a pre-holiday restock. We also now have replacement tips and reservoirs available in the shop.

8. Tom’s Studio “Studio Pocket” Fountain Pens. Not only do we have more of the Studio Pocket Fountain Pens, but we now have the fountain pen compatible Brush Nibs. If you want to lay some ink on the page, this is worth your consideration.

9. Tom’s Studio .5mm Mechanical Pencils. These Tom’s Studio mechanical pencils feature a brass grip paired with the same excellent anodized aluminum construction found on the rest of the Tom’s Studio product line.

10. Tom’s Studio Poise Pencil Grip and Lumos Grip/Rollstop. I wrote a short post earlier this week about how I’ve enjoyed these two grip options, especially for longer work sessions. Both function as rollstops in addition to adding some girth to the grip section.

11. T.G.S. x Sunderland Machine Works mk1 Collaboration Pens. I thought I would send out an almost-last-call e-mail, given that we are down to 5 of these pens in the shop. While we do plan to restock, I cannot promise that more pens can be available before the end of the year, so if you have had your eye on one of these, don’t wait.

12. T.G.S. Fountain Pen Friendly Paper Sampler and Pencil Samplers. We assembled a Fountain Pen Friendly Paper Sampler especially for Fountain Pen Day, but had so much paper left over that I made a bunch more! There’s also a woodcase pencil version featuring some unique pencils from our back archive.

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There are 16 different Teranishi Inks, from top: Modern Red, Classic Burgundy, Opera Rose, Orchestra Tangerine, Innocent Mauve, Salon de Violet, Melancholic Blue, Smoky Navy, Night Time Soda, Emotional Olive. [Part I]

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More Teranishi Swatches, from top: Brilliant Mint, Lady Emerald, Gentle Green, Traveling Sepia, Antique Black, and Nostalgic Honey. [Part II]

Thursday Drops: Midori MD Thick Paper, More Traveler's Tokyo Refills, and Other Restocks!

This has been a busy week! We received a major restock of Midori MD notebooks and paper, including the Midori MD Thick A5 notebooks, as well as additional MD A5 Dot Grid Journals and the Goat Leather MD Covers sized to fit the A5 and B6 Slim MD notebooks. We’re also entering the home stretch for our recent reorder of the T.G.S. x Sunderland Machine Works mk1 Machined Pen, so if you’ve had your eye on a pen from this particular shipment, please get your orders in. We do intend to keep this pen regularly available but production on the various runs take time and stock may not be continuous.

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The new Anterique Brass Ballpoint in Forest Green.

Finally, we have brand new colors of standard Anterique Ballpoints and Brass Ballpoints available, including this sharp-looking brass version in the Forest Green!

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1. Midori MD Thick A5 Notebooks. For those of you who enjoy mixed media work alongside your fountain pens, including watercolors, ink washes, oil-based marker, and even very wet fountain pen inks, Midori has released a new paper that’s twice as thick as the original. We now stock this notebook in A5.

2. Midori MD Goat Leather Covers in A5 and B6 Slim. We have additional stock of the Midori MD leather notebook covers in the most popular A5 and B6 Slim sizes. These covers age nicely and will develop a patina as you use them over the years.

3. Traveler’s Company “Tokyo” Limited Edition Refills. While we don’t currently have additional stock of the Tokyo Traveler’s Notebooks, we DO have a bunch of the Tokyo-themed refills. These are fun refills, and the cover is packed with all sorts of symbols of Tokyo.

4. Write Notepads Classic Hardcover Notebooks. I’ve long used these hardback notebooks (available in lined or dot grid) as commonplace books. They look great filled up on a shelf, and the paper is excellent.

5. Write Notepads Weekly Planners. A classic undated weekly planner in a two-page landscape layout, featuring Write Notepads’ excellent fountain pen friendly paper.

6. Ohto Rays Flash-Dry Needle-Tip Gel Pens. These needle-tip refillable gel pens, with a “Jotter-esque” aesthetic, have returned, along with a new Olive Green color.

7. Ohto Rays Flash-Dry Needle-Tip Refill. The excellent Ohto Parker-style gel refill from the Flash-Dry series of pens is back in stock, ready for you to load into the Parker-compatible pen of your choice.

8. Anterique Ballpoints in New Colors. The standard Anterique low-viscosity ballpoints are now available in four new colors: Hazy Pink, Deep Purple, and French and Italian tricolors!

9. Anterique Full-Sized Brass Ballpoint in Forest Green. Finally, we get a dark green Anterique Brass Ballpoint. (There’s also a transparent green version of the Brass Mini Ballpoint.).

10. T.G.S. x Sunderland Machine Works mk1 Machined Pen. We’ve now passed the 2/3 sold mark from this latest order, and it’s been wonderful to see so much interest in this pen. For a closer look and more discussion of why I like this pen, please check out this YouTube video that I posted the other day.

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Travel Notes and Store Hours

Please note that our brick-and-mortar location will be closed to visitors for the next week (Friday, October 4 through Saturday, October 12), as I am traveling for a combination of business and vacation. The online store will remain open and orders will continue to ship. While we have help, it’s a lot for me to ask them to staff the store for in-person shopping while they are already navigating the somewhat steep learning curve of pulling and fulfilling the online orders. Many thanks for your patience and support as we grow, and we hope to have expanded in-person shopping hours upon our return as we head into the holiday season!

New Arrivals: Pre-D.C. Restock on Traveler's Notebooks, Maruman Mnemosyne, and Life Specialty Papers

The post-move restock has commenced! This morning we received 12 giant boxes containing a long-awaited restock of Maruman Mnemosyne notebooks and pads in most formats and rulings, as well as a restock of Life paper including Bank Paper writing pads and letter pads, Typewriter Paper, Airmail Paper and more. For those of you who have asked about the Midori MD and MD Cotton Letter Writing Paper, that arrived as well with a shipment of Traveler’s Notebook starter kits in all colors and sizes. Keep checking back, and I plan to post more progress photos of the shop as it comes together. Many thanks for all your support, and I hope to see many of you at this week’s upcoming D.C. Pen Show!

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Life Typewriting Paper always sells out quickly, so I bought a lot this time.

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The shop shelving and displays are starting to go in and we’re thrilled!

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New Arrivals: Midori MD Cotton Square A5 Notebooks, New Stálogy System Accessories

This weekend marked the arrival of a new format in the Midori MD Cotton series: the MD Cotton A5 “Square” notebook. Square notebooks are a popular format in Japan, and this notebook measures approximately 5.75” x 5.75” and contains 176 pages of Midori’s excellent, ink-friendly 20% cotton paper. New hardback Japanese paper covers (with more structure than the standard paper) and natural goat leather covers are also available. Check out our full line of Midori MD products here!

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The “Landscape Format” Calendar Sticker. Other calendar formats and a “to do” list is also available. Extra stickers fit neatly inside the new Stálogy covers.

We’ve also received a shipment of newly released accessories for the Stálogy “Editors Series” A5 notebooks, including durable water-resistant covers specially designed for the 365 and half-year A5 notebooks, as well as new removable calendar and “to do” stickers. The latter allow you to easily format your blank notebooks for planning and task management, and move the stickers around to different pages (or even different notebooks) as necessary. You can view our full line of Stálogy Products, including the recently released limited edition 1/2-year notebook, here.

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These Stalogy covers are understated and will age beautifully. They are stiff enough to allow your 1/2-year notebook to lie flat.

Thursday Drops: Mnemosyne A4 Notebooks, Midori Multi-Year Diaries Back in Stock!

I had hoped that a few of these restocks would arrive before the San Francisco Pen Show, but as it turned out, I wouldn’t have been able to fit much into my already-overweight bags anyway! We once again have Mnemosyne spiral-bound notebooks in A4 size, as well as B5 and A5, in most rulings. Also, Midori 10, 5, and 3-Year Diaries are available. Several new shop arrivals are queued up for later this week or early next, including the new TWSBI ECO Indigo Blue with Bronze Trim that’s now available for pre-order. Happy shopping!

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TWSBI’s latest ECO release features bronze trim.

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1. Maruman Mnemosyne Spiral Bound Notebooks. Stocked in A4, A5, and some B6, Mnemosyne spiral notebooks are among the best out there in terms of fountain pen friendliness. The pages are perforated, which is a huge plus for me personally.

2. Midori MD 10-year, 5-year, and 3-Year Diaries. These excellent hardbound multi-year diaries allow you to view easily view your prior-year’s entries. As you record the events of the day or previous day, you can review what you were doing on the same day as far back as 10 years ago.

3. Laconic Tokyo A5 Notebooks. These slim softcover A5 notebooks come in an array of specialized layouts, ranging from calendar formats to oddball (yet versatile!) rulings such as “Spreadsheet” and “Gantt Chart”. These notebooks will fit standard A5-sized notebook covers such as the Lochby Field Journal.

4. Traveler’s Company Notebook Covers and Refills. We have Standard-sized Traveler’s Notebook Covers back in stock in nearly all colors, including the newly released Olive. Specialty Paper refills such as Lightweight (Tomoe River), Sticker Release, Watercolor, and Sketch are also available.

5. Nakabayashi Notebooks. We’ve gone all-in on Nakabayashi’s excellent paper, including the Logical Prime, Logical Air, and the Yu-Sari variants, all of which handle ink beautifully and feature unique rulings. Their lined ruling is reminiscent of French-Ruled (Seyes) paper!