Editing The Pen Addict 363/transcript (section)

== Stationery Purchase Discussion Shift ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' We're going down a road now that it's not necessary to explain what you needed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, I didn't know if you got the picture. I didn't know if you got the picture of what I was trying to explain.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I bought some pins. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Didn't really go into the show thinking I need this or I need that. But I wanted another microarchitect nib, which I've talked about a lot on this show. A dowdy grind. Yeah. That's a different dowdy grind. Oh. Yeah. Sorry. That's a different dowdy grind. That's too many now. I thought I'd keep trying. There's too many. There's too many. And I forgot mine. And I know people wanted to try it out. And luckily enough, I was stationed right next to Mark Backus, who does the micro grind for the nib grinder. And I mean, we were literal table neighbors. Like we were shoulder to shoulder all weekend. So I was like, well, I'm here. Let me just get him to knock me out another nib when he's not busy. But I need a pin to put that in. So right on the other side of Mark, also right next to me, was Franklin Kristoff. And guess what? The last nib I had from him fits in. Well, it fits a Franklin Kristoff. I get one of the Franklin Kristoff Fine Steel Yovo No. 6 nibs. They fit in lots of things. So I went down and picked out a pin from the prototype tray at Franklin Kristoff, which is something I have not done.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Two years, maybe? In at least six weeks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Probably. So I could be wrong. But I'm thinking like the last time I was in Chicago, I know I bought one. And I wasn't there for two years. I don't know that I've bought one since, but maybe I have. Anyway, so I bought a really neat. You would like this pin. It's a clear demonstrator. Yeah, it's got that blue. Blue finial, blue grip section like Jonathan Brooks material. It looks like a wave crashing type of blue, right? It's like an ocean-y type of blue with white ripples into it. So it's really neat. Really neat looking. Very happy with that pin. And then thinking I didn't want to buy any pins anyway. And I ended up with one. I was good until I got bored on Sunday and started walking around the show. And that's how Nakaya's happened, Myke. Right? No. You walk around the show. No. That is not how that works. But it might be how it worked for you. It is how it works for me.