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A5 20-hole punch, where can I buy?

piLpiL Registered User regular
edited October 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
I was on vacation out of the country, and I purchased a small A5 sized binder with twenty holes (two big, and 18 small) like so:

A5-20holepaper.jpg

I love this binder, and I love this paper! I've yet to have one page tear along any of the holes (something that's plagued me for a long time with two and three hole punched pages), and it's just the right size to fit side-by-side on a desk with a sketchbook. I can take the paper out, weigh it down with my cell phone on the desk, and it's just grand.

But I can't find any more paper for it. I still have a lot left, but this is a problem I'd like to address before it's too much of a problem. So there are two things I'm looking for here:

1: Another binder like this. I've heard of small 2-hole folders, and that should work for archival, but I wouldn't mind another binder like this one.

2: An A5 20-hole punch. Ordering more paper would be OK, but I believe just making more would be optimal, since that would give me freedom to choose materials, and not rely on whatever strange source becomes the source for these things.

Thanks!

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  • AtomBombAtomBomb Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I've got an overcomplicated idea. I know you can buy 7 hole punches. I don't know if you can get them with those small size holes, but let's just say you can. Set the punches to the position of every 3rd hole. Punch the paper. Move the paper down so that you'll be in position to punch holes 2, 5, 8, etc. Mark this on your punch so you don't have to check it every time. Punch the paper. Move the paper down to punch holes 3, 6, 9, etc. Mark again and punch.
    You'll have one extra hole at the bottom, and you'll have to punch the 2 big holes with something else (maybe a little hand held single punch), but it would work. It's a bizarre and labor intensive solution, but since you cared about this enough to try and figure it out (rather than buying a 3 hole binder like everyone else) I thought you might be willing to do it. If you're super anal about it, you could disable the 7th puncher on the last pass and you'd get factory perfect paper.

    I can't believe I just spent 15 minutes figuring that out :p

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  • piLpiL Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I'll look for a 7hole punch and try this out unless somebody can come up with a better solution. Thanks!

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