Editing The Pen Addict 415/transcript (section)

== Kickstarter Campaign Update ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' At their office in Texas, it's going to take us a few weeks to get the rings manufactured, and then they'll get them shipped over, and then they will replace them all. So, this will probably be like a six-week process or so, maybe something like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If all the pens were being sent overseas to be changed and then sent back, that would take way longer, wouldn't it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, absolutely. Yeah, that would freak me out a little bit more. This does not. This is more of just a blip, even though it sucks. But now we're probably looking at August earliest to ship, probably September, which was our original kind of time frame.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, all that time that we were happy that we'd made up, well, lost it. Lost it all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No good deed goes unpunished, Myke. No good deed goes unpunished. So, yeah, that's the latest. It was disheartening. Like, you want to, you know, see, like, Bugs Bunny's heart, like, pound out of his chest and then drop to the floor, like, cartoon feeling when I opened that box. Like, that's what it was like. I was like, oh, no. It was like, it was the dreaded feeling, like something was wrong, and it was. So, yeah, it'll get fixed. Easy fix. A lot of work on their part, and I got to get these. I got to figure out how to get these pins back and then get them picked up here soon. So, I'll get them back this week, and then we'll be back on more Kickstarter updates later when I can tell you I've received them again. So, just hold that thought, and we'll be back to it later. I got a link in my email from a good friend of the show, Andy Kuhn, about a nib that he said, hey, I think this might be an interesting dimension on the podcast, and I want to get your thoughts on it. So, I sent you a link. I put a link in the show notes, and we'll share it with the chat, and I'm sure a lot of people in the chat have seen it. It's been making the rounds, like in the Panatic Slack and things like that. Do you understand what's happening with the solid rose gold nib I'm seeing here from Santini Italia?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can't understand how this is possible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So, let me read the description.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Here we present our new solid rose gold nib, 18 karat. The nib is completely produced by an 18 karat rose gold stripe. I don't know what that means. To create this nib, we used an alloy that kept the 750 thousandths of pure gold, but adding for the rest of the alloy, only copper. So, let me kind of...

'''Myke Hurley:''' That didn't help at all. ...talk about what they're doing here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, they've taken a traditional gold, you know, yellow gold, and basically added copper to it to make rose gold instead of making a gold nib with rose gold plating. Right? So, there's no plating on the nib. The actual metal is a mixture of gold and copper.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm not a scientist, but this breaks my brain. I don't know. Like, I guess they're convinced that this isn't going to be a problem, and maybe it's not going to be a problem, and maybe that little of copper to make the tint of the color is going to be fine. But copper changes very rapidly in relation to gold. Like, you'll get some, you know, gold might have to be polished every now and then, but copper is an aggressively changing material. I don't know what the proper scientific term is for that, but, like, the minute you pick up a copper pen, for example, you can tell where you've picked it up because that material changes. It's affected by external forces way more than gold is. I'm going to let somebody else go first on this one. You know, this is one of those where I really like the idea. Hey, this is a great idea. Is it going to work? I'm not going to go first. Right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's like you've taken one metal that... I don't...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Let's call it stable versus unstable. I don't know if those are the right terms.

'''Myke Hurley:''' An unstable metal, which is copper, right? Where, like, things change, right? Like, you know, it patinas. Like, the color changes. Like, it's... It's a feature. Yeah, it is. But, like, it's a thing that happens to it. And then you've mixed it with a soft metal in gold. And so I just... I wouldn't want to be the one to put the money down. Right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Like, I'm willing to go first a lot of times, right? Uh-huh. And I'll take the risk for, you know, experimentation's sake and say, hey, is this a thing? Is this not a thing? And this doesn't feel like the one that I want to go first on.