Editing The Pen Addict 233/transcript (section)

== Pen Testing ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that'd be good. So over the past couple of days, I've filled four or five pages testing out different pens. I love the double orange line on the top. So pretty, right? That's a real throwback like with America is Beautiful to like the original field notebooks from, you know, the farming industry. You know, they had these extra lines and borders and different things like that. I really like that. The paper is really good except for fountain pens. It's not a good fountain pen paper. It's not enjoyable to write with a pen. The way the paper takes the ink, it's an immediate soak in. So there's a little bit of feathering. But what that also does is make your nib attach to the paper more. So it's a, there's more friction with the paper with a fountain pen nib.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Shockingly, brush pens, like a thick, soft black brush pen did amazingly well. That was the first pen I tested. I was like, well, if this is that good, the fountain pen is going to be great. The fountain pen was not enjoyable to write with. My nib kept sticking in the paper. However, it's obviously awesome with gel pen. I wrote a full page with gel pen. I wrote a full page with pencil. They're wonderful. Love the edition. Not going to buy more. And it'll be middle of the pack when I do my updated rankings. Really good. Just really middle. I mean, it's lunacy is better, you know, out of the recent editions. I prefer that. If I'm not using fountain pens anyway in these. I do love the binding. It doesn't lay perfectly flat, which you're going to, I'll let you talk about. But I like the style and the scoring and the, um, the yellow hint. Really great. I mean, I really like it. I mean, this is like a three out of four star book, which is wonderful. There's not many four out of fours, right? I mean, it's really, really good. It's just not, I mean, it won't sniff my top 10. That's for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's interesting to me because I, I am not experiencing what you're experiencing in the same way. You know, like this, this to me just feels like, honestly, I'm being completely honest. This just feels to me. It's like good field notes, fountain pen usage.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like this to me is as like, as good as it is. I'm not experiencing what you're experiencing. Yeah. Well, I, you know, I, I've tried it with, um, a fine nib, uh, a music nib, uh, brought a 1.1 stub and a medium. Um, and it's, it worked great for all of those.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Really? Cause like my stub is my broad stub, um, is the one I tested with. And it was like, if I was writing on a shirt or a mattress, there was a, there was a soft feel like the nib went into the paper, the ink feathered, surprising. There was, there was no bleed through. Like it really holds the ink well on the front side of the page. It doesn't go through to the back, which is good. So maybe I'll try some finer stuff and see, but I was, I could tell the experience from the nib on the paper that it wasn't going to do well, but I will try it some more.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Using my 1.1, I'm having no feathering. I have slight feathering from abroad that I've tried, but not so much that it will bother me. I've had to like look super close to see it. What ink are you using? Uh, oh, I'm using, um, Hiroshizuku. I'm using Pilot Purple, like the Namiki Purple. Uh, I'm also using, uh, KWZ Raspberry and, um, uh, Cal, Cal, Cal, and, uh, androfolio.