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== New Platinum Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it's not a huge conversation and people will want to know about it and our thoughts on it. And that's the new Platinum 3776 Rokka Limited Edition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, that's a great name. R-O-K-K-A, all caps, Rokka.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's a great name, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like it. It's easier than some of the other ones that they've had, like Nisli Las or whatever.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Uh, Kampu, hello. No. Shungyo.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But Kampu you can remember.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' True. Shungyo and Nisli Las and Lavand. See, I can remember them all, but Rokka, that's a good one. But it basically means, what does it mean? Snowflake? I think hexagonal snowflake, is that the word? So, this is a really pretty pen. Like, I'm not going to lie. You look at it and I go, wow, this is pretty. And I have no desire for it. Like, it's not a me pen, but they're going to sell the heck out of this pen, right? That's my opinion of it. It looks good. It's what Platinum does. It's, I'm tired of all the clear pens that they do. They finally gave us a bunch of the, um, of, you know, color variations last year with the red and green and pink and purple over the last two years. But this is like one of their standard kind of clear barrel with a really pronounced snowflake pattern, right? So, what are your thoughts on this? Because you seem to be, I, I'm not saying like it's amazing and I love it and I got to have it, but you seem just in your humming seem to be a little bit more hesitant than I am.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I mean, I absolutely adore my 3776. It is a almost perfect pen. Like, you should get one. If you don't have one, find one, get one. And this might be the one for you. It's just not the one for me. It's a little too delicate looking for me. Like, it's too much like fine crystal in its design, you know? And that's just not my aesthetic. I would be super interested in it if, if that body was, was, was, like you, was like hollow. Right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is solid. Like honey, like honeycomb? Yes. Like the Pinnider honeycomb?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh-huh. Like, that's what I thought this pen was when I saw it at first. And that is intriguing to me, right? Because that's just like, I don't have anything like that. But, you know, I don't, I don't have anything like this pen exactly either, but what it's similar to is too similar. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's just like, here is another fancy, um, engraving or whatever is like another fancy way that they've, they've kind of cast the pen, which looks super cool, but it's not even my favorite of the 3776s over the last couple of years. I have my favorite. It's the Levent, the purple one with the rose gold. Like that's my favorite one with the lines down it where it wasn't too aggressive. Like the nicely last was, um, right. I found what the one that I love the most, this is super cool. It's just not for me. Like it's all, you know, it's like clear and silver. It's like, all right, whatever. I like that. I have purple and rose gold.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's funny. Like my favorite is the shungyo. It's the red one, which interesting enough, none of us, neither of us chose the kampu, which I think was probably the most popular out of the whole series. Um, but they, they've done a great job on this series. I, this one's a little bit weird, but maybe necessary, right? In the rotation of pens that they're making. Um, I think it's around the same price as the kampu, like the mid 200s. 250, 275.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Seems high ish, but like, I mean, it's going to sell out like instantly. 2,500 of these there. If you want this pen, you're going to have to get it like when it launches. Um, I don't think it's going to be around forever. It's, it's, it's pretty cool. Um, I just don't see one ending up on my desk, but I wanted to bring it up because.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What's the 3776 that you like?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Shungyo. S-H-U-N-G-Y-O. I believe it's red with, um, rhodium plated trim.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. I got it. I just want to see that in the show notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's, it's an etched barrel, but less etched than the Nice and Lavon. It's more of a flatter etching.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But it's cool. So out of all of these, the Shungyo is the only, I've, all of these have crossed my desk to this point and either I reviewed them or one of the Panatic writers have reviewed them. The only one I've ever kept for me personally is the Shungyo and I've had a chance to use them all. And like, I don't need all of them. Like I picked the one. There may be another one in the future that it becomes number two or replaces the number one. But, um, you know, right now I'm, I'm on the Shungyo. I'm good with that. This does not replace that for me. So I guess that's probably the best way to look at it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Hit me with it.