Editing The Pen Addict 10/transcript (section)

== Nib Sizes ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Now the, the vanishing point, the nib sizes, are they Japanese sizes?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, this is real, really fine. I, I, I broke out my re-inked my Prera, um, on Sunday so I could get a good feel because that's the one we've talked about how, uh, how final line it writes. And, uh, it, it's pretty much spot on the same as the Prera F nib. So yeah, it's, it writes very fine.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So maybe I would be better off of a broad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, broader. Or, or, yeah, I haven't really tried the medium.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because I have the medium, um, Prera. Yeah. And I feel like I would like it to be a little thicker.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Really? Okay. So yeah, then probably the broad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, because as I said before, as much as I love the Prera, it can be a bit scratchy for me. Okay. Um, so the broad might be an interesting experiment. Although then the, my, the, like the angel on my shoulder is saying to me, do you want to experiment with a pen at that price?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know, right? Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I can't imagine that the vanishing point broad is going to be any thicker than the Lamy medium. So, and the Lamy medium is great for me. I love it. So yeah, we're, we've spent far too much time as I assume talking about that. Yeah. The vanishing point. What else did you, did you, did you pick up while at the Atlanta pen show?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, you go to a pen show, you think you're going to come home with dozens of pens and all kinds of cool stuff. I came home with two pens. Not at those prices, Brad. Yeah, I know. But still, you know, going into it, you know, you're like, Oh, I'm going to get all kinds of stuff. You know, I, I will say one, one general comment on, on the show, but, and I'll tell you about the other pen that I got. I was looking to see, you know, whether the brands would be in my price range that I might find something different that I don't already have. So I was thinking, you know, um, Lamy, Kaweco, and, um, I was actually looking for a Twisby, which we haven't talked about on this show before, but it's a good mid-level, um, quality or entry-level quality fountain pen. I didn't lay eyes on one Kaweco or one Twisby in the entire show. Um, I would have liked to come home with something, uh, of one of those two pens that I did not have already, but I didn't even see one that I already had. I saw none period. So I thought that was kind of odd. Um, uh, I did see plenty of Lamys there though. So they were well represented. The other pen I came home with was a surprise purchase. Um, I just happened to see it. It wasn't anything on any kind of list, shopping list I had or anything like that. But, um, you know, I've talked about how I'm a big fan of, uh, the Rotring pens. They do, uh, and, and Luke, our friend Lucas, who sent me the audio file on how to pronounce Lois term, which I still probably butchered. He sent me on another audio file for Rotring and I'm not even going to come close to his pronunciation. He's really got it good. I mean, there's a, there's a lot going on in that, in that, uh, the first syllable there that I can't even handle. So I'm going to go with Rotring. It's about as good as I'm going to be able to get at Lucas. And, uh, so, but I came home with a, uh, Rotring roller ball, uh, Rotring 600 roller ball, excuse me, which is a big, sturdy, heavy black hexagonal barrel roller ball. Um, I mean, it's, it's, it's heavy duty. This is the click when you put the cap on the top. Well, hang on. No, that wasn't it. Hang on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, I mean, that's kind of the on and off. I mean, it's a, it's a heavy duty monster of a pen. And it's actually really heavy to write with, with the cap posted. Um, this might be one I have to, um, write with the cap unposted. Um, but I believe, and I'll, I'll get corrected if I'm wrong. So I'm never afraid of being wrong. I don't think this is in production anymore. This is, I guess what they consider new old stock. You know, it's a brand new pen, you know, fresh in the box and with fresh refill and everything, but it's not manufactured anymore.