Editing The Pen Addict 6/transcript (section)

== Multi-Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I've had a few emails and to jog my memory that we haven't covered multi-pens very much. And that's something that I use very, very frequently. And, you know, a few readers wanted to know about some different multi-pen options and things like that. So we'll kind of do a deep dive on multi-pens and what they're all about and what some of my favourites are today.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sweet. Sweet. Before we start as well, I want to give a shout out to listener Eric Malinson, who is at ERIMA, E-R-I-M-A on Twitter, who very kindly sent me some Noodlers ink, the heart of darkness, which is what, you know, a lot of people tell me is a fantastic ink. Yeah. I've used it a little bit because I'm currently waiting on an order from JetPens for some converters to turn my Lamy and my Prera into ink, to take ink, not cartridges. So I'm going to be getting a lot more testing out of that soon, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And that's a good choice. I don't have that ink, but everyone who recommends ink, especially just for like what's the best black solid ink that you can find, the heart of darkness is at the top of so many lists that that's a great choice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's interesting because like the packaging and stuff is bonkers.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Noodlers does a crazy job with packaging. It's awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And obviously I will include links in the show notes to that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The packaging, not only the packaging, but also the ink names themselves. Heart of Darkness is nothing compared to some of the ink names that they use.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So have you got anything special that you've been using this week? I have.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I've probably mentioned it before, but I tend to get on kicks where I'll go for, you know, a week or two at a time using the same pen and don't want to pick up anything else. And for the past, I bet it's been almost two weeks, probably almost since we recorded the last episode. I've just been I have not been able to put down my Zebra Sarasa Clip 0.3 millimeter gel ink pen. I mean, it's one of the simplest, most basic pens out there, but it writes just a killer sharp line, super clean. It actually comes in a bunch of colors. I've been using black, blue, black and orange for different things. But it's an awesome pen. And, you know, I haven't touched the Pilot Hi-Tech C or the Uni Sino DX. You know, when I get in one of these kicks, I don't switch around until one day I'll just say, well, that's enough of the Sarasa. Let's move on to something else. And then I won't touch the Sarasa for weeks. I don't I can't explain that. It's just it's just one of those things with me. So how about you? What are you what have you been using recently?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have been using my Sarasa this week because this is this is the real heartbreaker is my Prera. It came with an ink cartridge and I don't have another ink cartridge. So it's run out. And the Prera takes a very peculiar cartridge. And I was in a stationer today and wasn't able to find anything that fit it. Probably because of its lineage might be in a Japanese pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think so. Probably that it'll be probably a little bit more difficult to just walk in and get a standard size cartridge to fit that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I'm hoping that maybe in the next episode I will have the converters for that. And also we'll have a Kaweco Sport, I think, was the one I went for. OK. And that looks I mean, I'm really excited about that. You speak very highly of the Kaweco line.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I do. All their all their products are really good. And that's that's one product line I want to keep keep getting obtaining more of because I've been very impressed with the quality and the performance of it. But some of the pens, you know, there are not cheap, you know, in the fifty hundred dollar range, hundred twenty five dollar range. So it's not something I will treat myself to too frequently. But those are they really appeal to me because of the design. It's a little different than, say, your traditional fountain pen design. What people would think of as a classic fountain pen design. And so I think that's super appealing to me and in a lot of other people.