I don’t know how they keep coming up with these ideas, those crazy folks at Field Notes. We just got in our latest Field Notes’ order, including the winter special edition Snowblind, which changes colour from white to blue when you hold it in sunlight. Because the elastic closing the TN is so easy to change, I may even consider changing my blue Midori’s elastic to brown, for something a bit more subtle.Īs always, we’ve been busy around here, packing up orders, saying hello to visitors and new folks trying out pens in the shop. I’m loving it! I love the pop of colour on my blue Midori, and I also really like the hint of red at the bottom of Jon’s passport Black. Passport (Old special edition camel, with the original green elastic), and Regular (most recent special edition Blue with a new orange elastic, available in the repair kit). I replaced the elastic that closes my Midori with the orange one – blue and orange, one of my favourite combinations! This one is super easy – you just pull out the old one from the hole, and you put the ends of the new one in, and tie a knot. I have a Regular Size Blue and a Passport Camel, and Jon has a Passport Black. I figured since I was opening up the repair kit, I might as well try out some of the other elastics, since the kit comes with four elastics and one new metal nugget enclosure. Every time I notice this, it gives me pause and reminds me about just how unique this Midori Traveler’s Notebook system is, and why it’s become so popular with so many people who need an everyday notebook and planning system. I think the elastic broke because people who aren’t familiar with the Traveler’s Notebook try to put the elastic back on the cover vertically, like a Rhodia or Leuchtturm elastic, rather than horizontally, which stretches out the elastic, and it snapped. They're also lighter to carry around in your inventory than the cartloads of materials you might need to fix all your stuff otherwise.We’ve been missing the elastic on our display Passport Brown Traveler’s Notebook for the shop for a while now, and finally, in a spurt of inspiration and productivity, I replaced it. So a hardened steel thing that would take both hardened steel and thick leather could be fixed with a repair kit that only cost you hardened steel to make, thus skipping the leather part. The point where they really become useful is when you get to higher tier stuff that would take several different types of material to fix through the UI, as opposed to just the one type needed to make the repair kit. When in doubt most repair kits are at or around the same materials level as the items they fix, so if a kit takes iron it will probably work on any item made from iron as well. Meaning you could spend, say, ten steel making a kit to repair an item that would only cost five steel to repair the other way, but if you wait until it's almost broken then the normal way might cost fifteen steel, so at that point the repair kit is now worth using. Plus the materials cost of repair kits can actually end up higher than the cost of just repairing the item through the UI unless the item is near death. So if you make a basic repair kit it won't work on an expert level item. The repair kits only work on items that are in the same catagory. Basically each piece of equipment - armor, weapon, tool - has a catagory of power to it, from basic to legendary. The repair kit system is not exactly intuitive or user friendly, but it does work.
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