Editing The Pen Addict 15/transcript (section)

== Retro 51 Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So what about you? What do you have going on?

'''Myke Hurley:''' At the moment, I'm on the Retro 51 site again. I'm just looking at their new stuff. They have a, the line that they've got at the moment, the 2012 line, there's some really, really, really nice stuff in here, including some fountain pens. And so, because I haven't yet bought a fountain pen, and now I want to wait to try and, to try and get one of the new ones rather than get an older model. And some of the tornadoes, they've got some really cool-looking tornadoes coming. They have some, they have like a vintage, they're called the Vintage Metalsmith series. And a couple of them are named after presidents. So you've got a Jefferson, a Lincoln, and a Franklin. And they've, they've all got these very different finishes on. Some are antique copper. That's the Lincoln, like a penny. Okay. Yeah. And so they look really interesting. Like the Lincoln, it looks like it's had like some severe rust damage. Really interesting. And they, and the, the Jefferson has been acid finished. And I'm basically, they've got a product brochure, but I'll, I won't link to that because it's a PDF, but I will link to the page where you can download it. So from there, what's new. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I haven't, I haven't looked at that yet, but are the finishes, is that the external finish of the pen or is that the finish? And then they're lacquered over like a lot of their other pens.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's difficult to tell, but I think that they might, I don't think they're lacquered because they have, I still have a lacquered series as well. Okay. But the, the King model that I have, which is what I'm currently using now, that's actually in this selection, but they're not available everywhere yet. And I was talking to the guys at Retro 51 and I'm not going to be able to get them in the UK for a while. So I might have to try and get them imported from somewhere. Hopefully check pens will get some soon and I'll have to buy probably all of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I know. It's a, you know, I was listening to you and you and Patrick on the enough podcast just this morning at work and going, y'all got into a pen and paper or mostly a pen diversion. And I was, I was laughing at you and Patrick is so right. I mean, it is, I mean, it is a rabbit hole deep into your wallet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's, it's dangerous.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like Patrick's, Patrick's, that's something to the effect of don't get into pens if you, if you want to have any money in your pocket.