Editing The Pen Addict 15/transcript (section)

== Pen Design ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So this one isn't super scratchy. The only, the main gotcha I have with this pen, and I don't know if you can tell, I haven't posted my review on the Pen Addict yet, but you can probably tell in the pictures on jet pens, is there's a drop-off from the base of the grip area to the tip section.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it kind of, you had the metal tip where you screw it in, and then usually after that point you see the grip, but there's like a part of the plastic barrel in between the two, isn't there?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right, right. And the way the pen's designed, that's for the cap to snap on. I see. Other companies have figured out how to not have that big drop-off, but that's right where I'm a, we call it a low gripper. I grip the pen way down on the barrel. My grip is smack in the middle of that ridge. So it's not a great grip area for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because ideally, the metal should be raised to allow for it to snap in, right? Right, right. Rather than being on the plastic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right, but they do it the way the, it's how, that's where the cap snaps on, so I don't know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's ways around it. Other pens don't have it like this, so.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Never mind. Anything else that you want to talk about?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, it's a, it's a pretty good, pretty good, a new entry into the, to the micro tip world. I think it comes in about 10 colors or so. So it's, it's, they're definitely trying to be the pilot high tech C with this pen. And they've done a decent job. I mean, I have to say, you know, another needle tip pen that was kind of doing that same type of thing in, and that hasn't gone as well is the, there was a Zebra Sarasa clip needle. I don't know if you ever saw one of those. And it's similar in design to this pen, and it did not do well. It was a very, very poor writer, which is shocking out of Zebra. I never have issue with the way Zebra pens write. And that pen, for whatever reason, no matter how many different ones I try, it was a poor pen. I think they ended up discontinuing it, so.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I can't find it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so people are looking for new things to try in the 0.4 millimeter range. It's not bad. I'm not going to give it, like, my glowing highest marks, because there's a couple little annoyances, like the grip area, and also the grip, the rubber grip area, it turns. Like, it's not glued down firmly. So, like, the grip twists around the barrel. It's not, it's not too bad when you're writing, but it's just, you know, I'm real nitpicky about certain things, you know. Yeah, I'm complaining awful, awfully a lot for a $3 pen, right? Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But, you know, we come to expect a certain level of quality from things.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah. And it feels like a, it's a good build quality. Yeah, I mean, I don't want to belabor the point. It's a good pen. I'm not going to go, this is the greatest pen ever. At least not yet. I mean, I need some more time with it. I've only had it a day, and I've written about two full pages with it, which is actually a lot for me to just get a pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It does sound like, though, it's not going to be pushing the high-tech C off of its perch.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't think so. There's just a few little differences. And it's really all in the writing experience. I think the high-tech C writes a little bit cleaner, a little bit nicer, a little bit tighter line. But this one writes pretty well. I'm just, we'll see how it goes long-term.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.