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'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. And our final question comes from Andreas. It says that they loved the interview with Dan Smith. Thank you very much, Andreas. The episode made me want to get a custom nib grind someday. I've been intrigued by stub and italic nibs, but for some reason felt they were only for medium or bigger nibs. My preference is an extra fine with a most fine in some cases. Before I take the plunge into a custom nib grind on a nicer pen, I would like to try out a stub on a cheaper but still decent pen like a TWSBI Eco or Lamy Safari just to see if I like the writing style. So the question is, does this approach make sense? Like will this work for me if I have a stock stub nib and will it be available in a fine or extra fine and give me a decent idea of how quality custom stub nib grind might work for me?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What I would recommend to do is buy a product called the Pilot Plumix.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And if you can't find the Plumix, Pilot also offers their steel nib. I want to say they call it the CI, like cursive italic, but they may just call it a stub. Whatever it is, it's a 0.9 millimeter steel italic style nib. Okay. And this is still wider than what you want. Like in fine, extra fine, that's a whole nother level. That's still going to be like half the size. But this Plumix is generally pretty sharp and it's pretty accurate for the feeling of a sharper grind. I think it's a nib I thoroughly enjoy. And that, if you can find the Plumix, I don't know if the Metropolitan started coming with these nibs or not. But the Plumix is like a very inexpensive pen, like under $10, maybe under $5, but I think under $10.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And try that for feel and writing style. If you jive with that, then I'd maybe consider getting a, probably like a fine steel nib into like a stub, a stub nib grind. If that works for you. So like spend like the $10 on the Pilot Plumix and play with that for a while. Because that's going to give you kind of that best writing experience in that price range just to kind of test it out. Just to see if you like that style. So, you know, that's kind of where I'd lead as opposed to getting like a TWSBI Eco and fine and just getting like a stub put on that. That's different. I will admit that that's a different experience. But you can, that will cost you a total of like $60 to $70 to find out whether you like it or not. Where you can get the Plumix nib for a lower risk and then just to see if you like it to begin with. That's kind of what I'm thinking.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So that wraps it up for today's episode. If you'd like to send in your questions to be answered on a future show, just send out a tweet with the hashtag AskTPA. Or you can send an email to hello at penaddict.com. Oh, hello. Hello at penaddict.com is the email address for that. A few times today we spoke about something called Refill. This is Brad's member newsletter. If you go to penaddict.com, you can sign up there. It is my favorite membership newsletter. I have subscribed to a bunch and Refill is the one that I will always, always read without question. Don't tell any of my other friends that, please. Thank you very much. Oh, I'm telling. Don't tell them. I just said don't tell them. Thanks so much to Squarespace and Harry's for their support of this show. If you want to find more about Brad online, as I said, you can go to penaddict.com, knock.co, Dowdyism on Twitter, penaddict on Instagram, and twitch.tv slash penaddict as well. You can find me at imike, I-M-Y-K-E. If you want to find out more about the theme system journal, you go to cortexmerch.com, and you can put your email address in there. And you'll be notified when the product goes back in stock, whenever that may be. Brad, I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to talk about it with you today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and I just want to tell people, you know, listen to the Cortex pod if that's something you're interested in, that style of work. Like, we're not going to cover, you know, everything that Myke covers about the theme system on the penaddict because that's not what we do. But, like, it's worthwhile to talk about, you know, building notebooks and how these systems work and why they exist. But to get the real nuts and bolts of that, you should really listen to Cortex. Like I said, it's an excellent podcast. I don't listen to every episode. I'm not a religious listener. But when I do, every time I listen to it, Myke, I get hooked. Like, y'all talk about something that's like, ugh, I should listen to this, like, every time it comes out. And I will overlook that you said part.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I will just choose to overlook that for this movie.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wow, I don't even recall that. So, my apologies. I hate that word as well.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's okay. You said it, but we'll forget it. It was struck from the record. But we'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, bud.

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