Editing The Pen Addict 89/transcript (section)

== TWSBI Cap ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm. And it has the sun logo on the top.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wow. Where did it ship from? I'm curious. From? California or from Taiwan?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It came from Asia. I feel really bad because I can't remember where.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, that's fine. I was just more of a curiosity for my part.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's from wherever TWSBI are based. Because I don't want to say because I feel like if I say like China and I'm wrong, then I feel like I'm just being journalistic or whatever.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no, no. I just think one of the – I didn't mean to put you on the spot, but I know one of the guys, Speedy from TWSBI, works out of California a lot. But I think the main shop is in China or Taiwan. I don't even know exactly sure. So I was curious if it shipped from like California area or from the Asia area. But the Asia area. I'm pretty impressed they still have some of these caps.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's what I don't understand. I guess they just have replacement parts. I guess they just have replacement parts. I just guess that they're there for these sort of scenarios.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a smart thing, I guess, yeah. I mean to have that back stock for a certain amount of time until it's gone way past when they're being sold. I mean these haven't been sold for a couple of – two or three years now, I'm guessing. So is it like good as new? It's good as new. That's so cool. So they – and that was fast too. I mean like ridiculously fast.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It was like three or four days or something silly like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good on them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So congratulations. I mean if you needed yet another reason to purchase TWSBI products, their customer service is now that reason.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Well, we're going to give you even more reasons right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, what – you need to tell me about this because I – as is usual with the TWSBI Facebook page, I don't really understand what's happening.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think that's a fair sentiment and I will agree with you on that. On the TWSBI Facebook page, I don't know what's happening most of the time either because they post a lot of prototype stuff. They say, hey, we're working on this. We might do it. We might not. So I don't know how many things are real, how many things are not, how many things are going to go in production. And if they do go in production, it might be a year from when they post a picture on there. But they've posted one of the coolest things I've seen from them in a long time. And I'm a huge TWSBI fan, so I think everything is pretty cool. But this kind of takes the cake. It's the 580, you know, the 580, Diamond 580 with aluminum piston and section, colored aluminum piston and section parts. And it looks amazing. It's the clear demonstrator barrel with, and the aluminum is colored in blue, green, orange, purple, and red. And I think it looks outstanding.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, I, it's like I want one of these yesterday and they may not, they may not even manufacture it, right? It's really hard to tell.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You don't know any more then?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know any more. I mean, and they're not, I mean, and they'll, they'll come out and say, I don't know. I don't know what we're going to do. Yeah. Cause actually the, the capture on the photo is we've been testing the aluminum piston mechanism for years. I don't even remember when we started. Now it's final done. The turning mechanism is very smooth. Most of all, I'm happy with the result of the pin in original aluminum color. So what does that mean?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Are you going to make it or not? I don't know. But they've shown off things like, you know, way back. I don't even, I couldn't even find the dates if I wanted to probably, but the rose gold 580 that they just launched what a month or two ago. I mean, that's been on their Facebook page for ages. The classics been on their Facebook page for ages. So they just kind of use their Facebook page as this testing bed to get feedback on what the prototypes look like, I think. And of course, every time they do that, everyone just like rages for them because they all look so good and everyone wants them. I mean, there's this, there's this white Delrin looking pin further down the page back from November that I've never even seen before. Never even heard before. And it's got this cool filling mechanism and this cool translucency in it. So I don't know what to make of it, but I wanted to post it out there because it's awesome looking. And you know what I feel about the 580 in general. As a matter of fact, I was using it last night. And every time I use it, I always very much enjoy it, especially last night when I shot ink across the meeting table in a meeting I was at my day job or night job. As you will, my 580 made a mess on the table. I don't know how. I've still yet to figure that one out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But that was fun. And I don't, I don't think anyone, anyone caught me last night, but I think I accidentally flicked the pin somehow and I shot ink about two feet across the table. I had to mop it up when I was done. Anyway, I digress. But I will, I want this aluminum piston, TWSBI.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I want, I want them bad. Like I saw them and I was like, oh yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Make it happen, TWSBI. Make it happen. So that's a, that's a temptation right there. So I'd be curious to see because that will probably be a little bit more than, I'm guessing probably be a little bit more than the standard 580. But I bet it's still probably like, I don't know, they have the, they do a good job of keeping it all in the reasonable price range. It seems like maybe like a 70, $75 pin, something like that. Maybe. Who knows? I'm just pure speculation on my part, but probably a little more than the regular 580, just for the parts and the added cost of the parts. But man, I gotta get that. Yeah. So what else you got?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Where else are we in that document?