Editing The Pen Addict 449/transcript (section)

== Platinum Pen Acquisition ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, man.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's a heck no.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I imagine this being one of those nibs that I would, like, immediately recoil from, which I've had that experience before, where, like, I've tried moving it on a paper, and I feel like I've gone four, like, nanomicrons deep into the paper, and at this point, I'm not writing on top of the paper. I'm, like, making a hole in the paper. You know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like I'm cutting it now, and it's just, yeah, it doesn't work. For me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I even do that as a right-hander, right? When you get a nib this tiny, this tip, there's no tipping material on the front. There's no, like, accident zone. You can't have a bad angle of handwriting and expect this pen to work, right? Where, like, take a Lamy Safari extra fine nib. There's plenty of room to kind of roll around the nib into the angle you want. This is, nibs like this are very, very particular writing angles, particular with paper. We'll see how particular they are with ink. The first thing I used, that I'm using right now, is Sailor Mano Akibi, which is, you know, nothing special. It's just a standard Sailor Magenta E ink, which is going into the Chartres Blue barrel and rhodium trim that I bought in the 3776. That's the other thing, is the UEF, when you could get it, it was usually gold and then in the black barrel with the gold trim. And I just didn't want that. So they finally have it in rhodium trim and a rhodium trim barrel. So it's, like, exactly the setup I've been waiting for. They've had it for a little while. I just haven't jumped on it. But, yeah, this is going to be a heavy usage pen for me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Would this be something that you would take the nib out and put it in a different platinum pen, do you think?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've thought about that. It is definitely an option. I just don't have that platinum pen that I would switch it into. Like, if I can ever find my Shungyu, which is the red one, I might do it with that pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' When you say fine, do you mean you have it and you don't know where it is? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's in the closet of doom, huh?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, it's not. That's the problem. I have four, yeah, I think four pens that are missing. One of them being a very, very important pen that were used for photography purposes. And they have been put away somewhere that I cannot locate.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I've looked a lot because...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What are you missing? I want to know now. What do you want to say?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, the orange Arushi Brooks gave us the first pen addict one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh!

'''Myke Hurley:''' And the box. That's why I know it's missing because I don't have the box either, right? Okay. So that has been put somewhere, right? It's not lost.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Was it like in the move from Noc to...

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, no, no, no, no. It was photography here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, you know, my wife was doing Noc product shots and like I just got a bunch of cool stuff to use as props. And there is a set. It's the red Shungyo. The orange Arushi.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The Sailor Lighthouse, which is the gray with the clear finials.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The North American one. The good North American one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, yeah. And then like a Kaweco from like the shop in Singapore. It's like this blue lemon edition. I only know that because I put all my like fun, colorful Kaweco sports together and that one's not there. Like these are not lost, right? I didn't lose a pin case like out on the street with these pins. They are misplaced somewhere that I cannot find. It's brutal.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's killing me. I hate that feeling.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's killing me. Like, and I know that because of the Arushi pin and box, right? It's got that cool lacquer box that he put the orange Penatic logo on the top, right? That box is gone too, right? So all these things are together somewhere.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' One day you're just going to be doing something, right? And then just all of a sudden you're going to come across them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Do you know how I realized they were missing? I did a Penatic members giveaway for the Sailor Lighthouse.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Uh-huh.