I Needed The Store. The Store Had Surprises.
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Some weeks are hard. And when they are, I go analog. I needed something different on my desk, so I went to Goods for the Study on the Upper West Side looking for ink and a notepad. I wasn't looking for much. And then I looked to my right.
This video covers a small but meaningful haul: a Tsubame Block Memo Pad (85mm square, cream, 5mm line grid - the one the staff uses in store), a Kyo No Oto Sakuranezumi ink (a dark dusky purple-gray that writes much deeper than the box suggests), and the Traveler's Notebook 20th Anniversary Card Size in black - which I genuinely did not expect to find in stock anywhere.
I've been using a TN for years. This is my first black one. I set it up as a wallet replacement and also tried fitting two pocket brass pens behind the leather tab. I swatch Sakuranezumi at the end on Tomoe River paper, MD paper, and the Tsubame block using a Kakimori nib in my Galen Leather Everyday Notebook (52gsm old stock Tomoe River, A5).
Timestamps:
[00:00] It was a hard week
[00:32] What I went in for
[00:47] Something I wasn't expecting
[00:52] Tsubame Block Memo Pad
[01:37] Kyo No Oto Sakuranezumi
[02:38] Traveler's Notebook Card Size - 20th Anniversary
[07:42] Setting it up as a wallet
[11:37] The pen fit test
[12:26] Ink swatch — Sakuranezumi on three papers
[19:03] Sometimes the store gives you what you needed
Goods for the Study (Upper West Side): https://goodsforthestudy.com/
Pens on desk: Pilot Custom 74 (Sailor Yurameku Zare Gokoro), and a few others keeping me company.
Fountain pens and inks. Obsession? Maybe.
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I have five cards (two in the front-most slot, & three in the neighboring one) so it's not a tight fit at all. I won't go back to using the clip, but I do wish that it was nicer to use.
I Needed The Store. The Store Had Surprises.
Urban Inkspot
365 views
Some weeks are hard. And when they are, I go analog. I needed something different on my desk, so I went to Goods for the Study on the Upper West Side looking for ink and a notepad. I wasn't looking for much. And then I looked to my right.
This video covers a small but meaningful haul: a Tsubame Block Memo Pad (85mm square, cream, 5mm line grid - the one the staff uses in store), a Kyo No Oto Sakuranezumi ink (a dark dusky purple-gray that writes much deeper than the box suggests), and the Traveler's Notebook 20th Anniversary Card Size in black - which I genuinely did not expect to find in stock anywhere.
I've been using a TN for years. This is my first black one. I set it up as a wallet replacement and also tried fitting two pocket brass pens behind the leather tab. I swatch Sakuranezumi at the end on Tomoe River paper, MD paper, and the Tsubame block using a Kakimori nib in my Galen Leather Everyday Notebook (52gsm old stock Tomoe River, A5).
Timestamps:
[00:00] It was a hard week
[00:32] What I went in for
[00:47] Something I wasn't expecting
[00:52] Tsubame Block Memo Pad
[01:37] Kyo No Oto Sakuranezumi
[02:38] Traveler's Notebook Card Size - 20th Anniversary
[07:42] Setting it up as a wallet
[11:37] The pen fit test
[12:26] Ink swatch — Sakuranezumi on three papers
[19:03] Sometimes the store gives you what you needed
Goods for the Study (Upper West Side): https://goodsforthestudy.com/
Pens on desk: Pilot Custom 74 (Sailor Yurameku Zare Gokoro), and a few others keeping me company.
Fountain pens and inks. Obsession? Maybe.