Editing The Pen Addict 167/transcript (section)

== Emerald of Shivor Ink ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So I finally received the Emerald of Shivor. Oh, I always feel like I'm saying that wrong.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think that's what we're going with. That's what I'm going with anyway. So Shivor.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Shivor. I can get on top. I can get on top.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Until they, until they produce a new video.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh no. Everything's going terrible. So yeah, that's, so that we're going to go with Shivor. That'll work for now. So it came in. I think I, had I ordered it when we spoke last week?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Okay, great. Yeah. So you'd mention it because, because the U S retailers don't have it yet, but like Canada and the UK and a bunch of places all over the world have it. But a lot of the retailers in the U S are just getting it, you know, maybe this week or next week, something like that. Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. This was one of my three individual orders to Colt pens this week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You don't have a problem. We should do a podcast about pen addiction.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's a really good idea.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I'm going to go through with you, my kind of thoughts and feelings as I was noting them down. So it came through, I think maybe on Tuesday or Wednesday. And this one, as opposed to stormy gray is a great color in and of its own without all the special stuff that's going into it. Just the green is really fantastic. So the first thing that I did was I tried out some of my pens to see like, what am I going to get the thickest line from? Right. Because I thought that that might give me the best chance of getting a lot of the gold and the color. So the first pen that I put it in was my Franklin Kristoff. Mm-hmm. Because I have the cursive italic nib on that guy. And I thought that that might be a good option. So, I mean, this looks great in the eyedropper, but I didn't see any magic from it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I wasn't really getting anything from the cursive italic nib that was too impressive. It just looked like a really nice green ink. And I know the gold's in there because I can see it in the eyedropper. Mm-hmm. Right? So in like that section. This was the first time that I've refilled the eyedropper. I used the grease and everything. Nice. Look at you. I know. I know. So then I was like racking my brains over this and taking a look at other people's posts. I looked at Ed Jelly's post again where he took some pictures and stuff with it to try and take a look at like what type of thing is he using here to help try and show me the kind of thickness that I'm going to need. And he was talking about like flex nibs and double bold nibs. And I was looking around and finding this sort of stuff online. And I mean, and he's writing with some crazy stuff here. Like I don't even know some of the things that he's using, but like some of the lines that he's got are insane. So I assume they're like dip pens and stuff like that. Yeah. He did. Yeah. So I remembered that I bought a pilot flex nib from somewhere. I think it might've been a pen chalet deal. I bought a pilot Namiki flex. The Falcon? Falcon. That's it. Yeah. Okay. I bought the Falcon. So I got that guy out and tried using that, but that didn't give me much of a thicker line, more like any more thicker of a line than the Franklin Kristoff. So therefore also didn't give me much in the way of specialness. Right. So I thought to myself, look, I know that this is possible, right? And I'm sure that it's possible with a nib like that I can put in a fountain pen. So I started looking around and that was when I came across like the double bold, extra ball, sorry, double broad, extra broad type scenario. Right. So I went on Colt pens and took a look around to try and find the cheapest double broad nib that I could find. And I came across Kaweco nibs and memory served me that I could put the Kaweco nib in my Karas Customs ink. Okay. Whether that's correct or not, who knows?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I bought it. It arrived. I put it in the ink. It took a bit of persuasion. Sure. To get in there. But I was able to do it. And the key was, you know, anyone will fancy it. Obviously I had to keep the feed and the, what's the other part? You know, the part that you actually put the metal of the nib onto.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And put the metal of the nib on. I mean, that's the feed. Okay. It's all the feed.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because I was thinking like there's also that part. Anyway. Yeah. Of course.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's like a, there's a collar around the collar.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's what I was looking for. Okay. That's what I was looking for. So I was able to put it fit. So, you know, whatever.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Can you, do you know if you can do this? Did I make this up?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know. Jeff, Jeff jammed a pilot Kakuno nib in one of his, in his Keras render K, which has the same nib unit in section. So I think you can pretty much do anything if it fits. Yeah. You're good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It fits. So it took, it took a bit of fighting to get it, to get it to work. Yeah. But, but I got it in there and it, and I've not had any explosions or anything. Um, so that, you know, I was able to jam it in and this is just like a wonder. It is almost like a pen from heaven. Oh, wow. Cause you know, I love these things anyway. Right. Right. And I am now, I mean, I used to love broad and I've not used broad or bold nibs in a long time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I remember you, that was like the primary thing. Yeah. Like what, back when we started.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like I was looking around and I was struggling to find a broad nib, like just around. Uh, and this thing is like, it just ink flows out of it. Um, it's so smooth. It's just fantastic. But plus this Emerald of Chivor is incredible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So when you get the, the, the larger ink flow out of the broad nibs, you're really the ink's popping for you now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I'm getting color variation. I'm getting gold and it's happening constantly. That's great. And it is just awesome. Nice. You are going to love this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, good. I can't wait to try it. I, I have a feeling I'm, I mean, I know I'm going to like it like this turquoise color I'm using right now. As you were talking, I was putting this color on the page to see if it's kind of like the, a little bit like the greenish of the, uh, Chivor. So I'm, I'm pretty sure I'm going to, I'm going to like it very, very much. And I'll actually probably use it in the same Lamy 2000 bin once, uh, once I do get it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So yeah, that's great. It really is awesome. So I went on this whole big journey, uh, but finally got to a point where it's all working and yeah, I, I really, really love it. I really love it. It's come out great.