Editing The Pen Addict 233/transcript (section)

== TWSBI Eco ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I wanted to pick the TWSBI Eco. But you'd pick that. So I went with an obvious choice for me to Retro 51 Tornado. Yeah. It is a joke for me at this point. Like it's a joke of the show. But in the same way that the Lamy 2000 will surprise you as to just how good it is, so will the Retro 51. Yeah. Like those pens, they are, you can find one somewhere. Like if you look at Anderson pens, for example, you're going to find one that matches your personal style because they have so many. And then you'll buy it and be blown away at just how good it feels. Right. Because they're kind of, I've never found another pen like it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That's why we recommend it so much. It really kind of changes people's idea of what they should expect from a pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I thoroughly recommend it, the Retro 51 Tornado. So now I'm stuck. I don't know where to go. Right. At this point. So like I'm thinking a lot and I'm like, what, what do I go with? And I started looking at some other stuff. I really wanted to pick a Pelican. I really wanted to pick the M205, but I could not get one to fit within the price range. Because as well, my problem was, I think if you get a Pelican, if you get a 205, you have to get a gold nib. Yeah. In my opinion, the gold nib is far superior to the point that it is like a different pen. It isn't just like a slight improvement. My 205 went from, I don't want to use this to, I will use this as my only pen for a year. Right. That was kind of how it went when I added the gold in. So like, yeah, you can find them. Like Glenn's saying, like the M205 Aquamarine, you can find them, but you can't get a gold nib on them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So. So you bought an aftermarket gold nib and swapped it in. I did. I did.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. So I was like, what do I go with here? And I was racking my brain and I was looking around for a while and I thought to myself, let's go with something fun. Let's go with something that's well made and a little bit different. So I went with a Franklin Kristoff Model 2 Smoke and Ice with a Masuyama nib for $185.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I thought you won the game right there. Oh yeah? Yes. One zero mic. You did really good with that one. That's an excellent choice. It's just a cool looking pen. Yeah. I always said something you would have had to bleep out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And the nib choice is wonderful. And yeah, if I would have thought about that, I would have picked that over the 2000. But yeah, I love that pen. Very highly recommended. Yep. Really great model that they carry. So yeah. Good choice. I love it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like this game.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I was surprised that you were like, hey, I like this game. I was like, I wasn't sure if you would or not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I really did. So set more challenges for us. This was a fun thing to do. Maybe we can try and see how low we can go, right? Yeah. How low in dollars can we go to really turn out something great?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Or it could fit something else, you know? It could be like a whole writing setup, you know? Pen, paper, ink, pencil, whatever. Something like that. Y'all think of something. Y'all always think of stuff better than we do anyway.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. Set us some challenges. Send us them in the Slack. Send us some Twitter. Send us them on email. We'd love to hear the games you can set for us. A $500 game was a winner.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Winner. And I'm going to say you won that game, Myke. I like your list. Thank you. Good job, mate. So this next question is a challenge as well, but not one that we'll go through. But it's a challenge to answer. And it was brought up in the Slack Pen Addict channel. By the way, if you're not part of that channel and you want to be, just send me an email. Tweet me. All I need is an email address to send you an invite to. It's fun. There's some cool Secret Santa stuff going on in there. So get in on that if you want. But I asked for anyone who wanted us to talk about anything today. Because we had room to slide in a couple of small topics.