Editing The Pen Addict 263/transcript (section)

== Kaweco Sport ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's kind of the, it's kind of the, uh, the big brother to like a, a Kaweco sport, right? If you're like, if you're like in the Kaweco models, the sports, the AL sports, this is kind of a step up from that. You get a, an acrylic material, but it's thicker and more durable. You get more depth of color in your pen and the size is compatible to smaller pocketable pens, but it's really a full size writing experience. It does have a number five nib instead of a number six nib. So it, it is designed around a smaller barrel, but it's just, and it's one of those pens. That's just always a joy to write with when I pick it up to use it. And I really, really like the colors. So yeah, I just think it's an all around great pen. And, you know, the only thing you have to consider is the size, you know, is the size right for you? And this is definitely not a too small of a pen, you know, I think that's what people worry about with the Perlet and that's not, not the case at all.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I feel like it kind of sits in the middle. Like it's, it's small because it's smaller than the Pearl or the Edison, you know, any of the other Edisons like, but it's not a, it's not a pocket pen per se, right? Like it's not what I think you would consider a real pocket pen to be like a Koveco or something. Like it's not like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I would actually, you know, if I ever, I, this is something I'd never do because I don't necessarily need it, but that's never stopped me before. Like I wouldn't mind an all black clipless Perlet for my pocket. I would do that in a second. I think that would be killer. I think that would be sharp as heck and just super useful, but you know, there's other pens in this range that aren't the tiniest pens like a, and light, like the Koveco sports, like the classics I'm talking about, the plastic barrel ones, you know, the Franklin Kristoff pocket 66 is in the same Perlet range. And maybe that's why I love the 66 so much. It's kind of in that same ballpark. It's not teeny tiny, but it's small and, but still gets you a full size writing experience, which is what I enjoy with these smaller pens. That's why I like the Koveco so much. Cause when you post them, they're a full size writer, but you know, go down, you know, into a pocket size. These don't Perlet and something like the P 66, you know, don't collapse that far down, but they're still pretty close. They're really great. I like them. Plus you could probably, I haven't done this with the Perlet, but you could eyedropper it. I'm sure, you know, it's a cartridge converter, international cartridge type filling system, Yobo nibs, you know, but I'm sure you could eyedropper it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I think one of the good selling points of this pen is that if you want to get into trying or you just want to own an Edison, which I recommend cause they're fantastic pens. This is like the only one that you can really kind of just easily readily get your hands on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think the Beaumont is. Okay. Yeah. Sorry.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The Beaumont too, but like the, but also like price wise as well, right? Like it fits in a better bracket and it's, it's really, really good value for money. Were they retail for like 150 or something?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I believe it's 149. It's right in that range.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They really are fantastic for the money. I think too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely. Absolutely. And as it so happens, I am, I'm giving this one away. My, my review. Oh, I was able, able to do that. So that's up on the blog. If you haven't seen that yet, that'll be in the show notes. You can click over. You have until Saturday. Give this, give this beautiful pearlet away.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a great color. Really, really good color.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a really good color. It's a really good color. It was actually hard to choose the colors, but I mean, I'm always going to go with bright blue.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think the blue is the winner out of the three of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. But they all look good. I think they all, uh, they all painted the picture. Well, that Brian, Brian was going for on the opposite end of the scale. Myke, I reviewed one of my all time favorite gel ink pens. I guess I should say the all time favorite gel ink pen of mine. I shouldn't say one of mine because the Uniball Signo is the DX model. The kind you can only get in Japan, which I complained about in the, uh, in the post is updated with a needle point. Um, now I guess it's not a huge update, but some people do prefer a needle point over a conical point. And really that's the only difference between this pen and a little bit of the paint job on the pen from the standard UM-151, which was the original DX. And, um, I, I just adore this pen. It always works. It always writes well. And sometimes gets forgotten in my sea of fountain pens. You know, that, uh, a simple basic gel ink pen that's really good can make a huge difference in your writing. And I really enjoy writing with these. The colors are awesome. Um, and you know, people, um, definitely love this pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Great colors. Wow. Yeah. Really lovely colors. Colors.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Colors come out great. Uniball has always been probably my favorite color ink manufacturer. Like all the oranges are right. All the light blues are right. All the lime greens are right. You know, um, actually I think where they, they're not the best is actually blue black. I think pilots blue black is better, but I think Uniball is pretty much everything else is, is better. Um, it, it's, um, I don't know what to say about this pen because it's already been said before, but it's, it is that good. This is one of those pens that is that good. It's $3, you know, and you can't get it on the store shelf. So just, that's a point of frustration for me. You know, it, uh, Uniball has lots of great pens on the store shelf. The 307 is awesome. They have larger size signals that aren't the UM 151 models. I forget which other models they are, but they usually started by 0.7 and 1.0 millimeters. There's, they won't bring these 0.5s or even 0.38s into the, uh, to the mainstream market in the U S you know, I guess you don't want to understand.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's why, you know, you, you Americans, you don't need school pens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. I know. I just, we just need our, our, our corporate express pens from the, uh, from the generic catalog.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, yeah, I mean, you know, I'm assuming, you know, we spoke about it so many times, you know, they're not, they're not silly company. They know what that, they know what sells, right. But it's just a shame. But, but that's it. You can at least go to somewhere like jet pens and you can get it right. Like at least you can do that. Yeah. It's easy. They don't stop that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's, I mean, if you're listening to the show, they're very easy to get, but it's one of those pens I want people to discover on their own. Like if they see it, something cool on the store shelf and try it and go, wow, this is really better than everything else I've been using. That's, that's cool to me. I like, I like to see those things happen. So, and that opportunity is not available with this pen. And it's been the best pen. It's been the best gel pen on the market for years and years and years, but it's not a mainstream pen outside of Japan. And actually I even had someone tweet me or email me that they're in Tokyo and they can't even get these pens. Wow. Wow. You're buying them all up. That's the problem. No, no.