Editing The Pen Addict 67/transcript (section)

== Parker 51 ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' The Parker 51, which is actually pretty new to my collection. I just bought that off my friend Thomas, I don't know, like a month ago. So, you know, I want to get that pen. I want to use that pen. So if I'm limiting myself to five, I've only got so many slots in my pen case. And, you know, the Pilot Namiki Falcon, that pen is amazing. And with that Flex nib, it's, I never thought I would like, I thought I would like that pen, but actually I love that pen. So I want to get that in the rotation. And then the TWSBI Mini, which is well known to me and something I've used a million times, but I bought an EF nib for it, which previously I had a 1.5 millimeter stub nib. So I swapped out the nib. So I wanted to use that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The Edison Beaumont Stealth is a pen that, you know, I've had mixed feelings on when I first tested it out. Then I kind of came around on it and fell in love with it. So I wanted to get more use out of that. And then the Pilot, gosh, the Pelican M405, which I actually have had loaded out for a long time. I still need to review that pen. So that's why I kept it inked and loaded out because I enjoy using it and I need to write a review on it. So that was kind of my decision. The pens that I love, I know I love them and I have no questions about. The ones I chose to keep inked up and loaded out are pens that I still had questions about or wanted to try something different with. So that was what went behind this decision. Because this isn't a permanent selection, right? I mean, this is going to be a rotating thing. But, you know, it was good for a change to go into this past weekend when I usually clean or ink, re-ink my fountain pens. I didn't have to do any of that. I cleaned no pens this weekend. I have the same five pens, which means my decision was pretty solid, I think. So I'm pretty happy with the way it's going. And, you know, I'll be changing them out, you know, and fitting in new pens. I'm going to have new pens coming in that I want to review and things like that. So they'll cycle in. And then I'll have some of my favorites coming back in there that I missed, like the Lamy 2000, which I'm already missing. I want to get that back in there eventually. But, you know, that was the point behind it is to force myself to use some of the pens that I'm not using as frequently. And kind of set to the side the pens that I know are great. And, you know, like I said, I feel like they're solved at least and that I love them. There's no question about them. So that's kind of what went behind it. But I did get a lot of questions on that. So it was interesting feedback and good feedback. So but this will be a kind of a recurring thing. I'll definitely have some updates to this. I'm thinking about switching out one of the inks. But really, I'm pretty happy with the five pens I have loaded out now. But I do have a couple of pens on order that will force some changes into this rotation. So I look forward to that, too. So does that make that make sense?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, man. I'm excited to see how it changes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I guess it makes sense. Right. The things that you really, really love don't necessarily need to be tried and tested and used all the time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. And that's it's actually kind of it's a little bit of a hard balance for me because I do need to review pens. I'm not just carrying everything that I love all the time and just going on with my life. There's things I need to figure out about some pens because I need to answer some questions either, you know, on the podcast or in a public venue like the, you know, like on the blog, doing a review or something like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So that is kind of unlike me in a way like I recently anyway, have been finding something and that's what I'll use. Like I haven't really been chopping and changing a lot. I use the space pens so much more than I thought that I would have done though. Oh, wow. That's good. Just because it's easy and it's always there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because I am filling up these field notes books like I never expected I would have done.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's cool. We'll hold that thought because we're going to talk about that later.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, definitely. But yeah, I mean, that's, you know, part of trying to figure out all that. I do because what I would do before it was say I'd have all my favorites loaded out with ink, right? So I'd say, man, I'd have all those pens that I say I love and they'd be in one pen case. Then I'd have a whole another pen case of pens I need to test out or. You know, review, answer questions about things like that. So that's how I'd end up getting 10 or 12 pens inked all of a sudden, right? So I was just trying to throttle that back a little bit and kind of have a little bit better life cycle of inking the pens. So it's, I was worried at first. It's surprisingly working well right now. So we'll see how it goes to be determined. So we got another pen that it's, it's going to cause consternation when I'm, if I'm just inking up five pens when it comes down, when it comes down to it. Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a bit of a bombshell really, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It caught me off guard. How about you?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Just a tad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just a tad. So why don't, why don't, why don't you drive this? Cause you actually own this pen and I am waiting for mine. So what, what do you, what do you have in your hands?