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== Cosmos Inc Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I got an email, I don't know, a few weeks ago from the guys behind the Cosmos Inc. magnetic fountain pen. And I didn't really notice this one on Kickstarter until they sent it to me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I've kind of been poking through the campaign. And the first thing that jumped right out, Myke, this campaign has 12 days left to go. They're almost at 200 grand. And I wanted to get your thoughts on this pen just as an entrant into the Kickstarter pen world based on like what you've experienced in other Kickstarter pens. What you think about this pen, like on your initial look at it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It looks fine. Yeah. You know, the design of it is very simple. But, you know, tasteful.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm intrigued by their mechanism. They have like a magnetic mechanism, which does two things. One, it closes the cap, but also lines the cap up with the flat edge. I think that's, that's pretty cool. Right. So it stops it rolling. I wonder what the long term, like, use of a fountain pen with a magnetic cap is. Like, do you end up with a lot of ink collecting on the nib because of the force of the cap attaching every time? Like, probably not. Like a little extra pop. Yeah, probably not. I see that. You know, but I don't know. I would be interested to see what that is like in the long term. You know, like, does it, because it's a magnet. And because typically, because it's cool, you would let it go. Does it overall over time, like, cause any problems? I'm expecting it. It likely doesn't. But, you know, who knows? I like this. They have a beautiful stretch goal edition, which they're probably going to get to. It's like 250,000 euros, which is like all black with this brass band. Yeah. Their video, there was a moment in their video where I audibly laughed out loud. So they're talking about the materials. And they're like, you can, we use machine grade, airline, airline grade titanium and aluminium. We don't like plastic. I was like, what's the, I don't understand the requirements. And just, you know, I wonder, I wonder what their feeds are made out of. But anyway.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And their converters. Did we get metal converters? But yeah, like all of the, any metal, any metal base Kickstarter project has to tell you like the metal specs. And it's always like this super technical aircraft grade. 10,832. Yeah. It's just like. Two titanium. We show how cool it is. All these words.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They also have a potential stretch goal for a clip and they've got an image in there and it looks terrible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' In my opinion. Like it looks really bad. This pin's not made for a clip. So the first thing I thought of when I saw this, I was like, wow, this is the pin type B. Because it's the exact silhouette as the pin type B, except it's capped in the middle. It doesn't have the, you know, the fancy sleeve. But like the barrel shape and flat side is totally the pin type B.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But it goes completely different from there. Just in, you know, my first glance at it. But I bring this up because Franz, our good buddy, this is his first ass TPA. Like I had no idea. He hadn't dropped in on the ass TPA thing before. He said, I really want to know what your thoughts are of the still form Cosmos ink fountain pen on Kickstarter. I can't seem to find any discussions about this campaign. And I don't remember if you or Myke ever discussed it. And we haven't. And because it's kind of just another cool fountain pen. Like it looks really good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can totally understand and see why this pen has made hundreds of thousands. Because it fits right in that niche of like, here's a good looking pen that has a cool twist. You know, like it has a cool little thing to it. And the thing is magnets. But frankly, like the magnetic thing is not enough of a pull for me to get a pen from a company I've never used. When they're just using a buck nib like every other Kickstarter pen that I bought in the last year.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So I think that's why it hasn't come up. So the second part of that equation is, you know, why haven't we talked about it? Well, because it seems perfectly fine. And we all own one already. Right. In some form or fashion, we own this pen. Right. Like it's not the exact pen. And it maybe doesn't have a magnetic clip.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's like really, this is just a Nemisu pen of a magnetic clip. Like for me, it's made of the same materials, same colors, uses the same nibs. It's probably going to feel very like same in a weight perspective. But it's just a magnet. And whilst that's cool, that's not enough for me to go for. And like, you know, a company like Nemisu, I bought my first pen from them when they were like, it was like novel to be doing a fountain pen Kickstarter. And now I bought previous pens from them because I like their products. So like I've kind of, they're one of the companies that I kind of patronize who make this type of pen. So I buy their new pens because I'm like, I know they make good stuff. This colorway looks nice. I'll give it a go. And I love my Ixion. I love that pen. It's one of my favorite pens at the moment. Yeah. You know, again, with the huge disclaimer every single time, I know people have had problems with it. I don't. I love mine. It's all nib based. Yeah. But then, so I'm just like, I don't, it just doesn't do it for me. But I bet it's going to be great. I bet people will love it. And it's cool. But it's just, I'm not going to drop the like 60 pounds on it or whatever.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I do have one of these on the way. They reached out to me. They got the prototypes done. I don't know if I'll have it reviewed before the campaign's over, but I'll send out some notes. Maybe we'll talk about it when I get in, when I get it in, since I won't have time to like fully review it in the next 12 days. But yeah, I mean, Franz, I think it looks fantastic. You know, I'm interested in getting one in hand, seeing what it's like. And, you know, I think it's just, it's a product of Kickstarter and a product of the pen community. The way you see things happening, you see it blowing up on Kickstarter because it fits that mold perfectly. But us as the pen community as an entirety, it's not blowing any of our minds because like I said, we already have this pen in some kind of shape or form. So it's cool though. I'll be interested to see what the build quality is like once I get it in hand. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So like, this is one of those things where you might pick up this pen and you're like, oh my God, this pen is incredible. And then I'll buy one. You know what I mean? But like, it's, you know, I'm good for this. Totally. I'm good for this campaign. I don't need another Kickstarter campaign pen right now. Yep. All right. Should we take our first break?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Because we do need some other things, right?