Editing The Pen Addict 604/transcript (section)

== Pen recommendations for a new job ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Good PSA. A couple of weeks ago, Eric wrote in to ask for a recommendation. They got a new job. They got a pay rise. And they wanted to pick up a new pen. Eric has all steel nibs. They have Y Studios, Caran d'Ache 849, and a Monteverdi Strata. They were looking for something new to celebrate. And you would like to make some further recommendations.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so I was actually having trouble answering that question because I got really hung up on the gold nib aspect of this. And that precluded me from mentioning maybe the most perfect pen to meet the thin and heavy requirement. And that's the Auto Hoot Design 03, which is one of my favorite pens. It's a skinny, heavy pen. It does not have a gold nib. But it is an amazing nib, an amazing writer. And that kind of fits the category. And if you just look at Auto Hoot as a brand, you can maybe find something else. If you don't like the 03, there's some other thinner pens and some gold nib options.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Eric didn't ask for a gold nib. We were thinking about that, right? The way it was written made me. We feel like that's what we would want to suggest.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, I want to come with the step up answer. And I was having a tougher time with that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Waldman's another brand that Kimberly yelled at me for not mentioning. Um, she's the Waldman super fan. And she's right. They have a lot of the skinny, heavyweight barrels and gold nib options. So if you just look at that overall as a brand, there's some shapes in there. Um, but I am such a design 03 fan. And that's probably like the exact answer. Giving the Y studio and Karen dash 849 love, I would move straight into the design 03 and never look back. So that's just, uh, something I wanted to, to, uh, revisit because I knew there was something in there that I just couldn't pull out at the time I was answering that question. So, uh, I wanted to follow that one back up. So there you go.