Editing The Pen Addict 179/transcript (section)

== Pen Mechanisms ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' It's not a, but if it's not clickier, then I don't know for me personally, I don't know what the, why you would want a difference, but yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He's also able to stylize these a little bit more since he's making them himself. You know, some of them have like rings around, um, the mechanism, you know, instead of just the smooth mechanism, just for visual.

'''Myke Hurley:''' More O-rings. Yeah. Covering an O-ring.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's at least, it's at least you can, you can add them there if you need to. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' See, now you're making me cough.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The colors, the colors do look really, really great. I love the look of the green one. Mm-hmm. Um, and what refills does this take?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, any Parker style refill. So I did the, uh, Myke, mine has the Fisher space pen refill, which I actually like this Fisher space pen refill. I just get the fine ones. I don't get the, the medium and the, the bold one, the broad ones that they, that they have. I always go for the fine blue, uh, Fisher, um, just like, and they fit the Moleskine gel, but I'm having a hard time getting any of the Moleskine gels in the size that I want. So.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So this is, um, I mean, you know, we've said there's a bunch, these pens and there was a great piece by, uh, Anthony Scullin, right. About the idea of these tactical pens being ugly. Right. Um, this one is probably one of the better looking of this type of pen, but this type of pen is still not in, it's just not interesting to me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So this is, I would say this is a moderately tactical looking pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's not full on like some of the, um, some of the other ones. Um, so it, it, it kind of bridges that bridges that gap from, you know, an off the shelf type pen to, um, you know, to getting into a little bit more tactical, which isn't necessarily our style just as a whole. That's why we like, um, what Dan does it at Karis Customs. We can get that nice machine pen, but it still looks like a pen. Not that we're going, you know, you know, not that we're heading out on our, our police beat tonight, you know?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Um, so yeah, that, that's, that's a really good way of putting it. It's like a lot of the benefits, but without the big trade-offs in design.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Right. Speaking of design, Michael Hurley, you've come, you've become quite the flower designer.