Editing The Pen Addict 445/transcript (section)

== Pen Review ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I really loved this pen when it came out and I chose not to get it. And I've had an opportunity to buy one and I think it's still kind of available, right? You can order one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You can buy them now. They were initially, they were limited and then they weren't.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's a weird, that's a whole conversation. I've gotten to test out and use this pen several times. It is an awesome pen. I genuinely love this pen. And I don't own it. I probably never will. It's like, I don't know. It's like one of those things. I don't need it. It's great, isn't it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's only one thing I wished that I had that it doesn't, which is a larger nib. Yes. The nib is too small.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so I think it's the, it's the, the slims. Yeah. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They should use the nib from the regular pro gear.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Like I have a different Sailor that's much larger that didn't use the correct size nib for it either. It's just one of those things that they do. I don't know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, they make a ballpoint version now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hmm. Interesting. Wonder what a refill that fits. I mean, Sailor makes refills. They're generally not good, but I wonder what shape it is, you know, so we can modify that. Didn't know that. But I, I don't know that the price would be worth that. Like I'm pro expensive ballpoint. Yeah. There is a balance. There's, there's a, there's a range in there that I just couldn't do for a ballpoint.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's probably beyond where I'd be comfortable. I would just, if I'm doing that, I'm buying the fountain pen. Yes. So yeah, it's good stuff though. I am not only did I love this pen when it came out, I actually like it even more now. So I found it interesting that you

'''Myke Hurley:''' put it in here. Yeah, it's beautiful. I, it really is just a superb pen to use like, and it's helped by the fact that the nib that I have feels very good too. Like exceptionally good, even amongst my other pro gear slims. It's, it's very, very smooth and it's a medium nib. But it, you know, it, it writes very, very well. The weight of it's so good and it's so beautiful to look at and so different. So it's, it's really high up for me, I think in my favorites.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. Cool. Um, quick question I was thinking about before we even put this topic in the notes. Mm-hmm. Is you're back on lockdown. Yeah. Uh, unfortunately. So you're back home now. Did you have to like relocate any pens? Did some pens stay behind in the studio? Like, did you consider any of that stuff or that wasn't really like on the table for this? Cause you

'''Myke Hurley:''' have enough stuff at home. Some stuff has stayed at the studio. I didn't change the things that I'd taken. So if you remember, like I took a, I took a selection, um, and I kind of split a bunch of the pens that I use and really love, but then would keep in my backpack every day. Um, three or four pens that were kind of the ones that I really love to use that were higher in value. Um, and so they're back at home now that I've just taken them out of the, uh, Sinclair that I had them in. And that was my Arushi Pro gear. Um, I also had, I had the Japan steel in the 3776 and the, uh, sometimes this would change out, but at that point I had the, uh, Tangerine King of Pan as well. Ah, yeah. And so I would take those with me back and forth because I like to use them and they were just pens that it would maybe hurt me the most to

'''Brad Dowdy:''' lose out of the ones that I took to the studio. Yep. I I'm with you on that. Like, I think that's the, the move I would go with. Cool. Um, yeah, I'll be interested next time we'll do this. We need to try to do this every month, just like catch up on what we're using. I've never used less stuff right now just because of the risk situation. Yeah. I put this in the document today