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Maruman - Mnemosyne 196 Black B6 Notepad | Lined 100 pages

Name: Maruman - Mnemosyne 196 Black B6 Notepad | Lined 100 pages
Brand: Maruman
SKU: N196A
Price: 8.00 EUR
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Maruman - Mnemosyne 196 Black B6 Notepad | Lined 100 pages

€8,00

Description

Maruman embodies timeless craftsmanship in a digital world. Founded in Tokyo in 1920, the brand transforms paper into a refined space for ideas, balancing tradition, precision, and the human touch of writing.

The Mnemosyne collection, inspired by the Greek goddess of memory, is designed to preserve thoughts with clarity and elegance. With minimalist black covers and carefully crafted pages, each notepad reflects simplicity elevated to an art form.

The spiral biding offers freedom to open the notepad flat offering the entire page as a writing surface, the covers are made from Polypropylene - soft and durable while being light.

Writing on Mnemosyne paper is a smooth, effortless experience. Fountain pen friendly and resistant to bleed-through, it offers both performance and pleasure, an essential tool for capturing ideas that last.

Specifications

Brand: Maruman
Type: Notepad
Size: B6
Ruling: Ruled
Paper Color: White
Weight: 80 gsm
Number of Pages: 50
Cover Type: Hardcover
Cover Material: Polypropylene
Binding: Spiral

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A Perfect (but Pricey) Pocket Pen

This is a pocket pen you can carry in your pants pocket. There is no clip, so you can’t clip it to your shirt pocket (with or without pocket protector). It’s kinda heavy, so you want to make sure it doesn’t fall out of whatever you carry it in. I can’t write with the pen without posting the cap on the back of the barrel, because it’s a pocket pen, designed to be short enough to fit a pants pocket.
The material the barrel and cap are made from Zirconium, known for hardness, high temperature tolerance, and corrosion resistance. This makes it suitable for high temperature applications, such as nuclear reactors, but not necessarily ideal for use as a writing instrument. Raw Zirconium is silvery white, meaning the Zirconium pen probably has a coating of some kind…which will wear off eventually, exposing the silvery metal underneath. However, it’s highly unlikely that you will ever damage this pen to the point of unserviceability through regular use. You’ll wear the stainless steel nib down to a nub before you’ll wear out the body or cap of this pen! And it is pretty cool to have and hold, and rarity of the material and difficulty of machining it into a fountain pen justifies the high price even though it has room for only one standard international cartridge, or the supplied mini-converter.
And here’s where I found an unexpected shortcoming: ink flow, specifically the lack thereof. I’ve used several of my nearly 100 different colors and brands of ink in the mini-converter. Almost all of them started to cause ink starvation sooner or later. I was able to replicate this phenomenon by using the mini-converter in one of my Sentry pens, where I also saw ink starvation, confirming that the mini-converter is somehow part of this “problem”. Similarly, ink cartridges cause ink starvation, so maybe it’s related to the size of the ink reservoir. With the mini-converter, you can at least “push” more ink into the nib unit to continue writing, but squeezing the cartridge may cause the cartridge to split, which allows air to get into the cartridge through the crack, which causes flooding of the nib…
My work around for loss of ink flow with the converter is easy. Remove the barrel from the grip section, pull the piston of the mini-converter all the way out, and with the nib pointing downward, re-install the barrel to the grip section, slowly. The mini-converter is just a little too big for the pen; when the piston is fully extended, the inside of the barrel will push on the mini-converter’s handle just enough to restart ink flow. Repeat as necessary.
Surprisingly, Pelikan 4001 Königsblau has provided the most consistently positive results, regardless of the size of the cartridge or converter. That’s surprising, because that ink is generally not known for superior performance or outstanding characteristics, but I’ve had no ink flow problems with it in any of my pens.
Writing with the Pocket Pen is a very “forgettable” experience, and I mean that in the best way possible. Provided you fix or don’t have any ink flow problems, the Pocket Pen is very smooth and consistent, allowing you to concentrate on what you’re writing rather than constantly fidgeting with your writing instrument to get it to write. The instrument fades into the background, so only your creativity occupies your mind, as it should be.

Great Pocket Pen

This is a pocket pen you can carry in your pants pocket. There is no clip, so you can’t clip it to your shirt pocket (with or without pocket protector). It’s kinda heavy, so you want to make sure it doesn’t fall out of whatever you carry it in. And finally, its outer shell is made from solid copper, a relatively soft metal that’s not particularly scratch, impact, or corrosion resistant. The copper will discolor quickly from humidity, as well as moisture and other chemicals your fingers have on them when you touch the pen. Your fingers will rub off some of the darker oxidized copper, leaving brighter shinier spots wherever your fingers habitually touch the pen. And let’s not forget about the oligodynamic effect that compounds and amalgams containing copper have on microbes! Not quite as effective as vaccines, but close.
In addition to the darkened and spotted appearance, my pen has also accumulated some scratches from posting the cap. I can’t write with the pen without posting the cap on the back of the barrel, because it’s a pocket pen, designed to be short enough to fit a pants pocket. I accept the scratches and spots as “comes with the territory”, just like having room for only one standard international cartridge, or the supplied mini-converter.
And here’s where I found an unexpected shortcoming: ink flow, specifically the lack thereof. I’ve used several of my nearly 100 different colors and brands of ink in the mini-converter. Almost all of them started to cause ink starvation sooner or later. I was able to replicate this phenomenon by using the mini-converter in one of my Sentry pens, where I also saw ink starvation. Similarly, ink cartridges cause ink starvation. With the mini-converter, you can at least “push” more ink into the nib unit to continue writing, but squeezing the cartridge may cause the cartridge to split, which allows air to get in through the crack, which causes flooding of the nib…
Surprisingly, Pelikan 4001 Königsblau has provided the most consistently positive results, regardless of the size of the cartridge or converter. Surprising, because that ink is generally not known for superior performance or outstanding characteristics, but I’ve had no ink flow problems with it in any of my pens.
Writing with the Pocket Pen is a very “forgettable” experience, and I mean that in the best way possible. Provided you fix or don’t have any ink flow problems, the Pocket Pen is very smooth and consistent, allowing you to concentrate on what you’re writing rather than constantly fidgeting with your writing instrument to get it to write. After finding the perfect ink for your needs, this pen will most likely outlast you 🙂, even with daily use.

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