Good architectural supply stores for mail order?

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<p>We just got the list of 1st year Arch supplies; I’m glad to see it does **not **include Rotrig Rapidographs and the like from my days but it does include a few things I doubt I’ll find in the local stores…</p>

<ul>
<li>Sakura .01 and .05 pens</li>
<li>Maybelline (Maybele?) (something like it) parallel bar </li>
<li>drafting board cover</li>
<li>other random bits and pieces </li>
<li>drafting triangles</li>
</ul>

<p>The school’s drafting supplies store has all that probably but it’s a few hours away… Any good suggestions for mail order architectural supply stores?</p>

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<p>I have no affiliation with these folks, but when I bought supplies for my son last year this is where I went. The prices seemed pretty good, and the stuff arrived as promised;</p>

<p>[Discount</a> Drafting Supplies](<a href=“http://www.draftingsuppliesdew.com/]Discount”>http://www.draftingsuppliesdew.com/)</p>

<p>When my son got his first freshman project, which involved making a model, I went to the site and bought him about $200 worth of the supplies I thought he would need. I got an angry call telling me he didn’t need all this stuff and had nowhere to put it, etc. Of course a few weeks later they got their list of required supplies and I had sent him everything on the list (including the textbooks). Sometimes parents aren’t as dumb as we seem.</p>

<p>rick</p>

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<p>D2 got the vast majority of her arch supplies from Dick Blick Art Supplies. It was MUCH cheaper than the local art supply house near her school. They also have pretty much everything in stock. Great service as well. (Even at that I think we paid out about $400-500 for her first year. D*~n Mayline parallel rule - that was a budget buster, even with three months of internet searching!)</p>

<p>[Art</a> Supplies from Dick Blick Art Materials](<a href=“http://www.dickblick.com/]Art”>http://www.dickblick.com/)</p>

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<p>OMG. I can get the student version of AutoCAD for what Mayline wants for the 48" parallel rule… We’re lucky that we have a lot of the supplies but still…</p>

<p>Maybe an emergency appeal to FAFSA would help :-).</p>

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<p>I think I still have a couple of dead Maylines in the attic. I suspect that if my son needs them I could buy new cable and fix them up. When I was an undergrad I had no money and did all four years with a T-square. By graduate school I was finally able to buy a Mayline; what a luxury!</p>

<p>rick</p>

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<p>We like Blick’s, too. We also use Carpe Diem Store. Between the two, we can find most everything.</p>