Editing The Pen Addict 103/transcript (section)

== Pen Availability ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Because when I Googled, I also found an Amazon link. So, you can still buy them. But I don't think that... I would probably guess that suppliers can't order them in anymore.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'm going to have to check into that. Because that's kind of surprising. Because that's kind of a historically popular line for them. But I don't know. Maybe they'll pivot into the Acroball Dr. Grip or something. And do something with the better refill. Because it's a standard ballpoint refill. And actually, those Dr. Grip refills, the ones that I've reviewed, have been excellent. So, yeah. That kind of surprises me. So, yeah. Color me shocked.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. J. Robert Lennon. Do you follow J. Robert Lennon, Myke, on Twitter? You should. I'm not sure if I do. He's a good dude. He's hilarious. And he's got some smart stuff to say all the time. He wants to know, will NotCo someday make pens? I'm not going to say no.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think it's inevitable. At some point. Like, at some point, you'll make a pen. But it's a totally different thing. Like, it's not Jeffrey's area of expertise. It's not yours.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's come up in conversation. Put it that way. It's not imminent by any stretch of the imagination. But it's on the one of these days, this would be nice list. So, it's on the radar, but nowhere near imminent.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Maybe the range. Maybe Colt Pens have just discontinued it from their catalog.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's possible. That's possible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sorry. I didn't mean for you to get wrapped up in the Dr. Grip. Sorry.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was just thinking about it then.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's not Dr. Who cancellation. You can settle down. All right. Stuart. Stuart from Informal Scribble. He says, A question I would like you both to discuss. What fountain pen would you recommend for somebody that is turning 31 next month? I have it on good record that he's talking about himself. Because we've actually talked about this on Twitter. He's looking at something like the Pilot Falcon. And what else did he say? It's the Pilot Mickey Falcon. Edison Beaumont, maybe? I can't remember. But anyway, he was wanting to change it up a little bit and get something cool for his upcoming birthday. And I have a lot of questions like that. What do you give for a birthday? What do you give for a gift? And it's a really hard answer. For him, I recommended, and he actually, it wasn't a Beaumont. It was one of the Franklin Kristoff pens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I kind of recommended maybe the Franklin Kristoff, because I think he might like one of the Masuyama type nibs, maybe more so than the Flex nib of the Falcon. But the Falcon's a pretty awesome pen too, so I'm not really going to help you out a lot here, Stuart, other than saying those are two good choices, and you're not going to go wrong with either one, depending on what you want to do with the pens.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So what was the Falcon?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The Pilot Falcon.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a Flex nib. It's a gold Flex nib pen, which it's excellent. It's definitely one of my favorites. It's one of the best writing pens I have, and it's got a flexible nib.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So my sort of feeling about those birthday, especially landmark birthday presents, is go for the expensive executive pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's how I feel about that, because I think that's what people expect and want in that scenario.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I found this tweet, and he's actually looking for something to get out of the fine nib rut. So he's looking for either a Flex nib pen or something like a stub or italic nib, and looking at those type of brands that carry those. So yeah, the Pilot Falcon and any of the Franklin Kristoffs, because they're all swappable into those really good Myke Masuyama nibs that I'm enjoying thoroughly. Cool.