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'''Myke Hurley:''' I can understand that. It's really, it's really not for me. Like the exposed screw in the end of it. Uh, that like the way that the, the grip section is like significantly different in size, like thickness. Yeah. It's just not my kind of style. It's, I've never been a big fan of tactical looking pens, you know, I think like the Karas custom stuff, like whilst durable has a real nice sense of design about it, you know, like I guess that would be the closest that I would come because they're like big and heavy stuff, you know? Right. Um, but you know, even then I prefer the more elegant ones that they make, like the ink over something like the bolt. Right. Um, yeah, this, it's just not, they're just not for me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. This is definitely not a pin for everyone. And I would recommend it, it would have to be like a very specific problem you're trying to solve. If you were, if this came up, like in my recommendations list, like if I had an email saying, you know, certain things, um, you know, there's all kinds of different pins I recommend for different things. Um, this one would have to hit a specific set of circumstances, uh, for me to recommend it, but that doesn't mean it's not a good pin for me. Um, it's also expensive. I think this model runs right around a hundred dollars. So not a cheap pin. Um, but it's, uh, it's not going anywhere either, man. This thing is, uh, this thing that's gonna, it'll, it'll definitely withstand the zombie apocalypse. I'm, I'm fairly certain of that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I think you might be right there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' My next pin might, um, withstand the zombie apocalypse too. Although I'm not sure about the nib because it is a fountain pen, but I got the, uh, my orange Edison Pearl G 10 that I bought at the DC pin show last year. Um, it had a, it had a sibling there in black that, uh, another, someone I knew bought. And, um, you know, I always kind of told him if he ever got rid of it and to let me know, and I'd be interested in turns out a few weeks ago, he was interested in selling it and, uh, I bought it. So I now own an orange and a black Edison Pearl G 10. How many of these actually exist? I think it's just these two.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's what I was just about to say. Do you own all of them? Yeah, I think you own all of a line of pens. How do you feel about that?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know that that's a total fact, but I believe that's the case. The, uh, Brian Gray just made them as just to see how the G 10 material would work in a pen. Um, and he made these two and he gave them to, uh, Bryant with Chatterley, uh, to sell. And, uh, Bryant actually couldn't sell them, um, until the right person came along and the right person was me. I like very particular things in a pen. And when I see something, um, in a design, in a shape that I like, in a material that I like, in a color that I like, uh, you know, it just happened to be the right match for me. And I think that happens with a lot of pens, right? That's why we have our, all have our own particular tastes and styles, but I think these are the only two I could probably email Brian Gray and clarify, but, um, I think these are the only two that he made because they damage his machinery so much. We wouldn't talk to him when I bought the orange one, cause I wanted to learn more about it. Um, because it's such an interesting material and I wanted to ask Brian what he was trying to do with these pens and he was trying to make G10 pens and, uh, what G10 is, it's like a fiberglass. It's like a heavy duty fiberglass material. You see a knife handles a lot. So it's a very, very dense, fibrous material. Um, and it ended up like overheating his machines cause it was, it was hard to manipulate in, in all the machinery that he had. So he ended up not making them. So are these the only two? I don't know for sure, but, um, I'm glad I have these two cause they're pretty cool. I like them. So it's, it's my kind of pen. Like you want to design a pen for Brad? This is, this is the pen for me. So it's very cool. So welcome home Edison G10 in black.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Um, what do they feel like? It's like a, like a acrylic or something, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. But like really hard, really dense. Let me get, let me, so here's the thread. So you can tell there's some tactile-ness there. Like it's not a smooth threading, but the barrel is dead smooth. But listen to this sound. It's different than you would think.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It sounds more metallic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. But it's like a really hard plasticky fiberglass type material. It's really hard to explain until you get it into your hands. It's very, very solid, but lightweight.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it's a interesting material. So you've, you've, you've used my orange one before and, uh, like it's hard to like grasp it, like what actually it's made of. Cause it feels so different from anything else.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Look at you buying up all the stock.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

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