Editing The Pen Addict 118/transcript (section)

== Custom Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So my mind has been blown. I want one of these. It's kind of neat. Is that they custom by Richard Bender?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, it's like, I guess it's his invention, if you will. He had a customer. You read through the article. He had a customer. Basically, he had a customer. There's an old some old classic nibs that used to do this. And at the top, he shows some some old Parker and Schaefer nibs. And, you know, we do they he would kind of mimic those. And now now he will do that grind now that he's practiced it and got it down. He will actually perform that grind for you on a pen. There might be some certain restrictions like it. I imagine it has to have a pretty good amount of tipping on the end of the pen just to be able to accomplish that type of grind on both sides. But it's certainly interesting to to have and to play around with.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that is pretty cool. I wanted to mention that because in retrospect, as soon as he mentioned it, I was like, you know, I have heard of that. So let me let me do a little bit of research on it. And so everyone should go read about that because it's kind of fascinating. Have you ever used one yourself? I have never used one. I've never used one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would like some accounts of what what the experience is actually like. I mean, I feel like the fine experience would be less than.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like your normal fine experience.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I feel like it's I just feel like it can't be as good because you're kind of holding the pen upside down. Like the surely you can't put the same amount of pressure to draw the ink. But I'm interested.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And there's some other pens that actually do this right now. Not it's not their intended use, but I know people use the Pilot Falcon, the flex nib pen. It will write upside down pretty well and get like a super fine line. So not not all fountain pens will do that, but some will.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's going to be scratchy, though. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it'll be interesting to test this out maybe one day. That's on the maybe one day list. I'm not like super, super all over it, but it's very interesting. Nonetheless, it might be worth having, you know, just having around. So when we left last week's episode, you were in the midst of a dilemma. Why don't you want to give a little recap in case anyone missed it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So for anyone following along last week, you'll remember that I had to speed out of the office one day last week and left my Edison Pearlette behind by accident. Not on purpose. I love the pen very much. And I got into work on Monday yesterday as we're recording this Tuesday, 2nd of September. I was very happy to see they were just waiting on a desk for me. Someone had clearly picked it up and they'd put it kind of like in my laptop dock at work. It was just sitting in there resting for me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Someone was looking out for you. Seems like it, actually. Seems like it. I told you it would be there. I didn't think that would vanish.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because people had used my desk because we hot desk. Yeah. But not everybody has the same size laptops, so they don't all fit in the docks. So I'm going to pick it up and put it in there. It's kind of good that nobody tried to jam their laptop into the...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That would have been good. See, I think... Actually, I think the fanciness of the pen probably saved you there. If it was a Pilot G2, it'd be gone.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It'd be gone. Yeah. Without a shadow of a doubt. I think that was what I said. I feel like you'd see it and you'd know not to take it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Especially anyone that sits around me because they know it's mine. And you couldn't use it at work. I'd have to... Oh, yeah. ...scenarios. I walked up somewhere and just give them my pen. Yeah, exactly. There's no way this is yours.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think about those scenarios sometimes in my head. Like, if I go to a meeting and leave one of my pens laying out on the desk that I wouldn't normally leave out on the desk, I'm like, man, this thing better be back or there's going to be an inquisition going on.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Like, dude, that ink is orange. Just give it up. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You can't get over this. No.