Editing The Pen Addict 165/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pen Review ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right, right, right. Yeah. And then you've got to deliver, man. Yep. You've got to deliver. Mm-hmm. All right. Speaking of delivery, let's get something in the mail.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, I should drive down there. I'm on vacation. I'm about two hours away from them in Gainesville, Florida. You should go say hi. You could go say hey. Touch some glass or something. Yeah, touch some glass. Yeah, that'd be cool. Get a picture of my Instagram picture of my tiny beer, you know, made in glass. You know, my eight-ounce beer. Nailed it. All right, so do you want this orange pen I reviewed today on the blog, or no?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I do want it. I mean, I love my orange, right? And I think I prefer my orange, to be honest. But I do love this one as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So you and I have the same orange pro gear, the solid orange one. I got this one on loan from Goldspot to review, and I picked this one out because I wanted to see it in person. It's so good. It looks fantastic. I hated to send this back. I might have to talk to them, see if I can get the blogger hookup on that pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've never seen, like, a demonstrator fountain pen that is so bright. And just, it's literally just jumping, you know, out of your hands. It's so bright. And the pink one and the green one are the exact same way.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This doesn't suffer for me with that issue that I have with demonstrators, you know, that they look cheap or whatever. That's true. I don't know what it is, but it looks, it just looks like the real deal.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think the pro gear is just, and I talked about this in the post, it's just, the pro gear is a really stout pen. It's not big. It's not small. It's just kind of right. And, you know, it's got a good diameter. It's got a good heft. And that carries over even in the transparent models like this. So, yeah, you want to throw that out there because that's a pretty cool looking pen. And I'm going to end up with one of those, one of these days for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I just picked up my pro gear. That's a good pen. It's my number one, man. I do not own a pen better than this thing. It is as perfect as a pen could be. Great. I like that nib. That nib.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're nibs or something else. All right. So our pen blog of the week this week is an interesting choice and one I only caught wind of when we talked about the ink doc a couple weeks ago, you know, when we talked about the, you know, the video that we saw, you know, the handwriting video. And they went to the Wonderpins shop. And, you know, normally, I guess, retailer blogs, you know, some of them do a really good job.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And some of them really kind of don't do anything on their blog. Well, I think Liz, it's John and Liz run Wonderpins, and I think Liz handles the blog. And what she does is not just talk about their products, but you go on there. Look at this. Yeah, they just got the emerald. They just got the emerald of Chavor ink. And so that's their first post on the blog when you go to the current thing. But if you scroll down, like you read through all of Liz's posts, she's got like soup recipes or talking about, you know, how she's doing different things at home, you know, cooking different things, not just straight about pens. And I love that. I love that approach. That's the kind of approach that kind of just sucks people's in and makes you want to be part of, you know, your blog, your shop, your community you're building there in Toronto, things like that. People get to know you on a more personal level. And I think that's a big deal. So I wanted to give a shout out to Liz for making such a great blog. And her handwriting is just, it's to die for. You know, she does a great job. And we actually even got a shout out on the podcast, you know, when we talked about the ink doc and, you know, giving them a plug, you know, the Wonder Pen site. So anyway, if you just browse Wonder Pens, checking out all the cool stuff they offer, be sure to check out the blog. It's really, really interesting. And I love Liz's tone and style that she blogs with. So that's our pen blog of the week. All right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want that J.O. Barn so bad. Yeah. I just went to Colt Pens again and it's still August. August, August.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Even the U.S. retailers were saying August. So I didn't, I haven't seen anyone get them in stock besides them. So I was actually surprised to see that.