Editing The Pen Addict 7/transcript (section)

== Kaweco Sport ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So my most recent purchase, which I'm very pleased arrived and hoped it was going to arrive last week, but it didn't, is a Kaweco Sport. I got a white one. It's just the regular Kaweco Sport. Right. I haven't been able to use it too much yet, and I'll get into a minute why.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've really loved the form factor.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So just real quick for the listeners, this is the Classic. The model that you purchased is called the Classic. There's a few different in the Kaweco Sports. So just wanted to throw that out there just so we're all on the same page.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, mine just says Kaweco Sport on it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, they don't say Classic or Ice Sport until they get into the different body styles, which we'll talk about. But yeah, go ahead. Sorry.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it's like a very light plastic, which is nice. It's nice in the hand. It's very compact. So the majority of size of the pen is like, when it's closed, seems to be taken up by the cap. It's got a really large cap. And the body of the pen itself is very small. So the idea is you unscrew the cap and you obviously cap it to the end of the pen, which, believe it or not, Brad, I have been doing with this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, good. Interesting. Yeah, I could see that, though, because it's really lightweight and really small if you don't.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's too small. It kind of falls in my hand. Like, it doesn't rest on my hand very well. So I've been attaching the cap to the end, but it doesn't feel uncomfortable to do so. And I think that's because the cap is so large. I don't feel the cap in my hand, if that makes sense. It doesn't feel like it's counterweighting anything because it's the majority of the weight.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it kind of, when you uncap it and post the cap on the back, it kind of overextends itself over the back of the barrel, right? It comes down like halfway past the – it doesn't clip on the end of the pen. And it slides all the way down, maybe not quite halfway, two-thirds, maybe a little bit more.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So when you're – like, the cusp of your hand is probably midway through the cap, not anywhere near the – like, the seam.

'''Myke Hurley:''' As I usually find it anyway.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've only really been using this pen at home, and that's not really what I like to do because I do a lot – I write the show notes for all of the shows, but I do a lot of writing at work. So I like to always take my new purchases on the road with me. But the Kaweco does not come with a clip. Mm-hmm. So I usually keep my pens in my inside pocket. Mm-hmm. And I wouldn't dare put a pen in my inside pocket unless there was a clip to attach to. That makes sense. To the pocket. So I have ordered one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. I was thinking you ordered it with it, but you ordered it separately.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I don't know why I did that. Gotcha. And then I also made the mistake of – I did actually order it before the Kaweco arrived. So when I was looking at the images, the image that they had showed the – there's like a little gold ending on the camp. And on the images, they were all silver, so I ordered a silver one, which is upsetting. So what I have decided to do is, yes, I will use a silver one, but later I will buy a new Kaweco.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is how I would justify it. That's right. It's going to be unfortunate. That I'm going to have a white pen with gold accents and then a silver clip.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that would drive me crazy too. Maybe you can just send me the silver clip.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, I'll do that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Because I have a few Kawecos and I don't have a clip for any of them, but every time I see – I was like, you know, this is a small pen. I throw it like in my front pocket. When you're talking about clipping to a pocket, you're talking about like a suit jacket pocket generally, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So me, I would take mine and just throw it in my front pocket of my jeans or something. So the clip was not as important to me. So I've never ordered one. But every time I see a picture of one, I was like, that looks kind of cool. You know, I didn't think there was any use for it and I thought it would look kind of silly, just kind of like this extra clip on there. But I think it might actually be the opposite. I think it might kind of add a little bit to it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think I'm really looking forward to it because it will mean I can carry it around more. And I can see why the Kaweco line is so popular because it can be thrown into a front pocket very easily and it's a fountain pen. You know, I think that's a real selling point of the line. The actual nib itself, I've got a medium nib. It's nice and comfortable. It's smooth. I've still not used any fountain pen recently, which is as smooth as the Lamy Safari, which I've fallen back in love with this week. And I want to get on. I'm going to talk a bit later. Later on when we're talking about the types of fountain pens, why I've started to use the Lamy a little bit more. Okay. But I'm hoping that the clip will come before the next episode, but we'll see. But yeah, it's very smooth. It came with a blue ink. I bought some cartridges for the Kaweco.