Editing The Pen Addict 43/transcript (section)

== Sailor Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, Sailor's not a brand. I'm not. I have to admit, I'm not very familiar with Sailor as a brand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Location? Japan.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' It's a historical company along the lines of, in Japan, it's called the Big Three. It's Pilot, Sailor, and Platinum. Yeah, that's right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right. Gotcha.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' Noted. All right. Cool. It's in that batch, so you know it's got the history behind it and the quality behind it. And it doesn't come in an extra fine, though. It doesn't look like. That one may not. They do do some of their other, the Sailor Professional gear, the standard ones, the non-imperial black ones, I think do come in an extra fine. Because, unfortunately, I've been shopping for those. And those run about $200, just the regular, the standard Sailor Pro gear. Because it's got a 21-karat gold nib, so it's a little bit pricey. But it's a beautiful pen. Writes wonderfully. And I'm going to be sad to send mine back. I have the regular Sailor Pro gear and the Sailor Sapporo, which is basically the same design. But it's a little bit smaller barrel diameter, a little bit smaller nib, things like that, and a little bit lower price. And it's a 14-karat gold nib instead of 21K. So priced accordingly. So those nibs will get you, man.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' Those nibs will get you. They definitely do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I assume you're going to be reviewing the Sapporo and the Pro gear.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' Definitely. Yeah. I just have it – yeah, I'm still in the trial and testing phase before I get to the reviews. I've been spending – Thomas' – this batch of pens, he sent me 10 pens. So I'm kind of going through all of them at once just so I can have some comparisons and some groundwork to base these reviews off of. So it's taken me some time. I got some Edison pens and things like that too. So what do you ink this sucker up with? I have been using all of Thomas' pens that he sent me. We actually had a long discussion because I wanted to be careful with his pens, right? I wanted to do what he wanted me to do. I didn't want to start sticking random stuff in there and, you know, dunking up pens or doing any damage to pens, which it's pretty rare. But there are inks that you obviously can do damage to pens. And so we settled on the Pilot Blue Black, which is a good standard color. I bought a big bottle of that. It's a color I loved anyway. It's a color I'd already use. I just didn't have a bottle of it. And it's a fantastic thing.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' I use it for reviewing all of his pens. And I've actually started to use it in some of my pens now. That's what I use in my Vanishing Point and things like that just because I like the color that much. Nice.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' Yeah. So I wanted to get that pen on, that professional gear on Mr. Hurley's radar. Thanks. Yeah, no problem.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' I do what I can, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So shall I pay some bills so I can afford these pens? And then we'll get into talking to Pat about what you want to discuss today.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' Yeah, let's do it.

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'''Patrick Rhone:''' Thank you. Thank you, Michael. Thank you, Squarespace.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No problemo.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' Awesome. So Patrick and Michael. Yes. In this case, I owe both of you gentlemen a debt of gratitude because I don't know if you exactly recall the dates and times, but it's been almost exactly a year since I appeared on Patrick's podcast enough. Yeah. And that, which obviously predates the pen addict podcast. And you guys were the impetus behind this podcast. And without you two being so supportive and, you know, helping me out and talking through lots of things, you know, I was a little bit, I was a lot of bit hesitant to, to start a pen addict podcast. But with, you know, with you guys, your guys help and, you know, pushing me and having me on, you know, enough and just showing, hey, look, you know, this is, you know, this is pretty easy stuff to talk about. And, you know, that, you know, you can do it. And, you know, getting the ball rolling on me wanting to start the pen addict podcast. I just wanted to say thank you for that. I remember that episode like it was yesterday. And it was a really big help in getting this podcast going. So I wanted to say thank you publicly. I know I've definitely thanked you plenty behind the scenes. And it's been a big help to know that I have a supportive group of guys like you guys and able to do something like this. So I wanted to point that episode out. So for any of the any people wondering the history of the pen addict podcast, we'll put the link in the show notes here to where I was a guest on the enough podcast episode 104. So y'all should go back and listen to that if you have it. If you like, if you enjoy this podcast, you should be listening to Patrick's podcast anyway. But definitely check that episode out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, and I kind of mentioned this, I think, a little bit before on my show here and there. And that is that, you know, one of the reasons I'm, you know, kind of both, you know, try to be very encouraging to, you know, to folks for this stuff. But especially the stuff that I want to see. And it can even get to the point of like where I kind of badger people about it is because I want to see it. Right. I want to have I believe that kind of in a way you help to make the Internet that you that you want to visit every day. And hopefully by, you know, either sharing ideas I don't have the time for, you know, things I'm not particularly suited for. If I see someone else who's doing something, I think, oh, this would be great. I want to listen to this or I want to see this or whatever. I'm going to badger the heck out of them to try to get it done because, well, it's what I want to see. It's the, you know, and so, you know, it's not selfless at all. It's inherently selfish, but that's how it's supposed to be. Right. So, yeah, thanks a lot. You know, I mean, it's expensive to me, but it's great. Yeah.