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== Sailor Pro Gear Slim Discussion ==


'''Brad:''' Yeah. And then they kind of take the combination to give them a name, right? To give them a name. So, like, Plum is the name of the pen, but it's the mixture of Yamogi and Ume, right? Yeah. The Yamogi blue and the Ume red, reddish color. So, that's made into the product name Plum.

'''Myke:''' It's going to be really hard for me not to buy a couple of these.

'''Brad:''' What do you think about nuts?

'''Myke:''' Why did they call it nuts?

'''Brad:''' How amazing is that?

'''Myke:''' Oh, my God. It's one of my favorites too. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's one I would.

'''Myke:''' We broke mic. Oh, boy. Anyway, I think color-wise, I like willow, nuts, and deanthus the most.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, I like willow, plum, and nuts. Cherry Blossoms is my least favorite, although it probably will end up being one of the most popular.

'''Myke:''' I feel like I've seen this a bunch of times, right? Like, that colorway. Like, the other ones, like willow, nuts, and I would say deanthus. Those, like, the main body colors seem more unique to me, I think, in some of the sailor pens that I've seen before. Right, right. The plum one is a beautiful blue, and the cherry blossom is a beautiful pink, but I feel like I've seen these before. Agree on both accounts. But the other ones, like the two purple colors and that gray color are really good.

'''Brad:''' I think nuts and willow are the standouts, honestly, and I think we've kind of seen things along the lines of the other ones. The interesting thing about this lineup, which they don't always do, like, I can't tell when they're going to do it. They created finial art for these. Like, sometimes it's just the anchor. These have specific finial art. Like, the nut has, like, an acorn on there, it looks like. They also match the trims to the general colors. Like, some have gold trim, some have silver trim, right? Oh, yeah. So, based on the look of the pin. So, they, like, really thought about each of these pins as an individual.

'''Myke:''' This is an absolute home run from Sailor. Like, knock this one out of the park.

'''Brad:''' No question. Like, I'm hesitating, but I agree completely, and I'm the one that's been.

'''Myke:''' That's what settled it for me, because I hadn't noticed that, that they changed the furniture color to match the pen. Like, yes, you should do that more, you know? I'm into this. I think this is great. I love it.

'''Brad:''' I think it's legitimately fantastic. So, this is the Pro Gear Slim. So, this is the smaller one, 14-karat gold nib. You'll have, I guess, three nib choices, which they do limit the nib choices when they do these special editions. So, fine, medium, fine, and medium. The only thing I don't see on here is the price point, but certainly with the ink, with the new price point, these will be, you know, got to be mid-300s. I should have looked that up before. Like, I did research for other things on this episode, Myke. I did not research the price on this, but I imagine they're mid-300s for the set.

'''Myke:''' That would be in line with what you would expect.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, because I think the pen alone was around $319, $320 was the new price for the Pro Gear Slims, like the special Pro Gear Slims like this one. So, apologies for not having that directly on hand. But I think they're just, you know, for the market and for the customization and, you know, what they are. They are certainly going to be on the new price point.

'''Myke:''' And any indication of when they will be available?

'''Brad:''' That's a great question right when I close the link, Myke. Cool. Okay. Cool. So, no. Why would I look this up? It's coming in July. It's coming in July. So, very soon. Yeah. These are usually not, like, long-term out. Right. You know, there's not, like, six months out type of releases. Sailor's always pretty much, like, the next few weeks to the next month or two. So, it looks like July. So, you know, the next six or eight weeks, we should be seeing these. So, maybe in time for me to see it at the San Francisco Pen Show and try not to buy one. I really don't need one of these. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll talk about that more as we get closer. But, like, this is a pen that I don't need because I prefer the larger size Pro Gear, right? Yeah. And, but it's going to be hard not to buy nuts when they're there presented to me in person.

'''Myke:''' I mean, who couldn't? Brad? I can't. I'm not going to. No, you know what? I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to. There is an obvious joke to make and I'm not going to make it.

'''Brad:''' All right. All right. That's on you. That's on you.

'''Myke:''' You can't do it, can you? I really want to do it, but I can't.