Editing The Pen Addict 204/transcript (section)

== Cross Customs Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, and then, oh, did you see the, uh, the end of this newsletter, Myke? I did. Yeah. So this is the exciting part to me because I have a lot of the aluminum barrels. Um, they're offering up the del, basically Delrin and Micarta as barrel options just for barrels. So you can, these are like a barrel add-on. You can't buy a full pin. I think the way I read it, you can't buy the full pin with this barrel, but you buy the barrel as an add-on to your already, your, your grip section for the, the render K or the fountain K.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it makes my Delrin render K only slightly special now, because I think one of the reasons that mine is special is the whole thing is made of Delrin. Yes. And I think the problem is the tolerances are too low. So they, you know, they wanted to make sure or too high, whatever one means it's hard to do. Uh, and, uh, so it means that I guess that they're not doing the grip sections for that reason. Maybe we should have Dan explain this to us at some point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. So I'm talking to Dan, I'm going to, uh, work on getting some samples and we'll get Dan back on to talk about all this new stuff. So they're going to launch later this month. So we'll probably have him on in June sometime to, to talk about this. Cause this is, this is a big change for them in a very, very positive way, very positive direction. So, um, I, I, I love seeing this. This was, this was an exciting, uh, exciting little newsletter.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Tiff, do you own any cross customs pens?

'''Tiff Arment:''' I do. Oh, I have one. I got one at the pen show. I feel like I have one of everything. Like I'm slowly getting one of everything. That's like my goal. And then I'm going to focus on the ones that I like the best and get more of those.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' One of us. You're totally one of us. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. So this gift set's pretty cool. You can get the, you're basically getting the, the Filofax for free, but it's, it's like cheaper than the price of the Lamy Safari itself. And you get the Filofax notebook with it. And that's pretty cool. One of the other pens he had in there, Ron did was the, and I was looking at this yesterday is why I'm bringing it up. It's the Delta Dolce Vita skeleton. This is a crazy pen. I mean, it's like way too expensive and it's really not that good looking, but it's just kind of cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is a weirdo. It's like they designed it pretty much like a rib section, which is a little bit, you know, in the skeleton, in the skeleton, skeleton related. It's kind of cool and kind of scary at the same time. I don't know what to think about this pen. Um, but yeah, that's something to look at. I've been looking at Deltas ever since, uh, uh, our friend Joe, uh, made his, made his blog post about his, uh, his three favorite pens. And we're going to talk about that later in the show. But, uh, this is one that I had been looking at that I will not own, but it's kind of interesting in a creepy kind of way. I don't know what to think about it. Yeah. I don't like it. Yeah. It's a little much, a little much, but yeah. Um, thanks Ron. Thanks pen chalet. And, uh, we'll, we'll have some, uh, some fun pen chalet giveaways here at the end of the show to wrap up our Kickstarter project. So still a lot to get to on this show, including my mailbag.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let's hear it. I've had a crazy mailbag this week. And so I want to go through some of the stuff that I got. My squire finally arrived from Baron Fig. Um, and I, there's a funny little story about it, I think. So, uh, I was like order number two or something like that for the squire. Cause we, we found out it was, it was happening just before it happened. Right. Right. And I was able to kind of just go and, uh, put the order on before we had the guys in for the show. So I'll put a link in the show notes for that. That was a, it was a great episode where we spoke to the Baron Fig guys and when they basically sent out all their updates and said, Oh, we've got everything shipped now. And I didn't have any shipment notification left it a little bit, nothing. So I sent them an email and they were like, Oh, something kind of got screwed up. Uh, we'll get one sent out to you. Like, sorry for the hassle. And they sent me a tracking number and stuff. And then it arrived and I got the notebooks, um, and the pen. And I realized my pen was not in the fancy box. It was in a different box. It was in just a regular box. I reckon they screwed something up and didn't have any of the Kickstarter models left. And I have a production model. It's the assumption that I've made. I'm not complaining. I just think it's funny. Um, like it was just this like whole weird thing, but yeah, I'm, I'm a little, I am a little bit bummed that I didn't get that fancy kind of pen stand box. Mine was just like a box. You open it up and the pen's just laying inside. Um, but I want to talk about the pen though, because I think it's fantastic. I really, really liked this pen a lot. Um, I love that they have the, uh, retro 51 style, the Schmidt, uh, refill in there. I think that's fantastic. Um, the texture on the aluminum is unlike a texture I felt, um, on an aluminum pen before. Um, it almost has like a kind of soft grippy touch to it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I, it's kind of satiny. Yes. That's a little describing it. Yeah. That's kind of what I, I don't know what the real name of that finish is, but that's, that's what I generally use for that type of finish. It's like, it's not matte. It's not smooth. It's kind of in between it's, it's satiny.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And I really liked that. It's very different. The size of the pen is interesting as well. It's not like a large full size kind of pen. Um, it's not as big as the retro's, uh, work. It kind of is a kind of around that sort of size, uh, but it's thinner as well. Um, it's quite, quite a nice profile to it. It's weighted real well. I liked that. It's got a slight kind of teardrop shape as you get to the grip. Um, and I found the mechanism to be very interesting and pretty much flawless. It's a, an interesting twist mechanism. Um, there are times where you can feel the mechanism moving. If that makes sense. Like you can feel that there's, it's kind of gripping on something. Um, but, but I found it to be very good and I will echo that. I really wish they went with just one logo on the barrel. Um, the sword logo would have been way cooler or just the Baron fig one. But yeah, I've got to say, love this pen. Really recommend it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. This pen's a winner in my book. Uh, they, they did a really, really good job with this. And honestly, I wasn't sure how it was going to come out. We never, none of us did until we got it into our hands and they pretty much nailed it. They did a good job on this pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I had faith they would do something good. I didn't think it would be this good for that first pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Did you get in on this one? Uh, Tiff. I know you're a, you're a Kickstarter pen junkie too.

'''Tiff Arment:''' No, no. My Kickstarter pen days are over. Yeah, we'll get to that. I'm staying away from that with like the longest poll that you can find.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But these guys, they're local to you. They're, they're based out in New York. Yeah. Baron fig.

'''Tiff Arment:''' Oh, cool. Yeah. I'm just looking at the stuff now that you, as you guys are talking about it.