Editing The Pen Addict 615/transcript (section)

== Early experiences with stationery and first fountain pen ==


'''Damien Alomar:''' So I was not a stationery fan as a kid. I think I used, like, erasable pens or something in middle school, so definitely not a stationery fan then. I definitely, at least kind of started to care about stationery related things when I got into college. And I was in architecture school, and so there's a lot of, you know, what paper are you going to have these on, you know, writing instruments, things like that. So, you know, if anybody's familiar with the Rapidiograph Indie Ink pens, those are, you know, very high maintenance. Yeah, you gotta clean them out and things like that. And that's kind of where I got exposed to sort of writing instruments beyond what, you know, just sort of lives in a cup. Nice. And there's, at least at my school, there was a little bit of a tradition where underclassmen would help graduate school thesis students with their thesis projects because there's so much work to do. And I wound up helping out one of my friends who was a grad school, and he was a woodturner. And so he actually made me like a turnt, you know, wood kit pen. Yeah. And I was like, oh, thanks. And then I just put it on the shelf and I didn't even know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like a ballpoint or rollerball or something.

'''Damien Alomar:''' It actually was a fountain pen. Get out. Okay. But I don't think I actually even realized that it was a fountain pen at the time.

'''Damien Alomar:''' And I'm pretty sure I still have it. I don't know where because I've been so many times in the last couple of years. But I did, I know last time I checked, I had it in like 2020. And it was, you know, I was like, oh my gosh, it actually was a fountain pen. I think that's when I realized that it was a fountain pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I'm always curious about Rapidograph users. Did you have like the full like tip set? Did you have like the range? Like what's the, how many in number of tips like do those have? Like are we like five or six? Are we up to like 10?