Editing The Pen Addict 166/transcript (section)

== Ink Properties ==


'''Jonathon Deans:''' I've got the Blue Ocean before it had the Flecks of Gold in and I really prefer that to the one with the Flecks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. That's the one. I have the Blue Ocean the same as you, Bob, a pre-Fleck Blue Ocean I have. I am going to give this Emerald a try, though. It looks pretty amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I see more and more pictures of it on Instagram and it's like the amount of colors that are in this ink is what excites me. It's not even really so much the gold, but like the green combined with the gold and it looks like in some lights you get a little bit of purple in there. Yeah. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The sheen is what got me. If it was just the greenish with gold flecks, I would probably pass. Like that's pretty much what the stormy gray is. It's just gray with gold flecks and the blue and the red are similar, although the red has a little bit more sheen. But the Emerald has so much sheen and changes the color of the ink so much. I think it's going to be nice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So we'll see. I mean, I don't know what it's – I don't know how it will end up. I don't know if I'm going to be happy or sad of it. I also don't even know what pen I'm going to use it with, but I'll work all that out and hopefully we'll have some feelings for next week. But yeah, I'm looking at my Instagram now and I've seen Colt Pens took a picture of it and it looks really, really great. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I think everywhere, but the U.S. has them available at this point. Oh, really? Yeah, because Canada has them. People have been ordering them there. Our friends at Wonder Pens, hello. They've been selling it and people have been picking it up from their store. So it just hasn't hit the shelves yet in the U.S., but it'll probably be – I would assume it's going to be this week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I'm going to put a couple of pictures in the show notes of people that are trying it out because I follow the great gourmet pens on Instagram as well. And Aziza was posting some pictures of just showing the color variation. It really, really is very exciting.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Speaking of Aziza, we need to get her on the show. I will handle that post-haste. Yeah. All right, last thing, and then we're going to get into some economics learning. We're going to make ourselves smarter today, Michael. Yep. I need all the help I can get. You saw the Twisby mechanical pencil review. I did.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I did see that. I did see that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Being the mechanical pencil guru you are now, what are your thoughts on this one?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It looks interesting to me. I considered it. I was hovering over the checkout button when buying that ink today, but I ended up not going for it purely because of basically the way that you finish your review. Mm-hmm. So you're very complimentary of it. Mm-hmm. So that it's very good, and there's lots of great parts about it, but you basically compare it to the rotary, and it's like, well, there isn't that much of a difference. Mm-hmm. But it did seem really cool. I mean, it looks great. I liked what you said about the eraser being really, really good because I always find the erasers to be terrible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it was actually kind of a shock when I first used it. I was like, wait a minute, this works.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'll try it out. I don't know, but I haven't bought it yet. I think I'm a little bit biased at the moment against Twisby. Sure. As I mentioned in the past, so maybe that's putting me off.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, you're in the right episode for this conversation.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Rallying against them, even though.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no, not necessarily. It's just going to be once we. Talking about them. Yeah. Once we go full Jonathan, there's going to be some Twisby conversation for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I have to say, and I do want to commend that they have the retractable option for the same. Yeah. Retractable nib or whatever you call it, tip.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I found that interesting from a pricing perspective.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Same price as the non-retractable version. I think that's cool because that is the one thing I miss, which makes me think that I should get a rotary. And I had an email from a listener. Sorry, I can't remember their name off the top of my head. And they were saying that I think it's the 800, which has the retractable tip with the stylus. And they were saying how great it actually is. The stylus is good, but the fact that they have the retractable tip and stuff is really great. But we'll see because as we mentioned before, it seems like that's out of stock for a redesign.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, it's also $80 something. Yeah, I know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I don't know, man. Maybe I'm edging towards that point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Cool. Good for you.