Editing The Pen Addict 231/transcript (section)

== Sailor Gentle ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' to the city. Exactly. Exactly. And that's why I'm such a fan of it too. That's, I was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. New Orleans has a, you know, I have a soft spot for New Orleans in my heart. So this, this actually, yeah. So this actually means something to me on a, on another level besides just being a killer ink. That's awesome. All right. So what do you have for ink? Um, I could not pick just one. I almost went with one of these from there. You can imagine which one.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I can. Um, I picked the entire new line of, uh, Sailor Gentle, the Four Seasons line. Yeah. I am so bad. I bought all of them in the full size bottles.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So they out, they outdid themselves this time to be perfectly honest. They really, really did. Last, it was kind of a downer last year when they came out, when they ripped up their, existing lineup and replaced it with eight new inks and they were just kind of bleh. Yeah. Not this time.

'''Ana Reinert:''' No. Nope. I, I really liked them all. I just, I, I got all of them, uh, in my initial order except for the orange, the Kin Mokusei, um, which, um, was sold out when I placed my order. So it's, it should be in my mailbox today. So I'll have my reviews up shortly. Um, but I did swabs of everything else. And actually my, uh, um, my eco is filled with one of the greens right now. I can't remember because both of the greens are a little on the yellowish side. Okay. There's two of them. One was darker, like more of a deep mossy and the other one is, um, more of a yellow green color, but they're all really nice and sailor dental inks perform so well. Um, but yeah, I'm not gonna, it's one of those things like if you want, want them all it's, I think it's worth making the investment, maybe buy a bottle, a bottle a month until you have them all or pick your favorite colors, but all of them have swatched really beautifully. Um, I'm not, I haven't been disappointed in any of the colors yet. So just all really, really pretty.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So besides the, the Kin Mokusei, which I obviously love the one that's speaking to me and I'd love to hear you, you, you say about it is the new purple. And, and I'm, I'm blanking on the name as I, as I rushed to go look it up. Um, it wasn't, it wasn't the pure purple. It was kind of the purplish gray. There's one that's like a very purpley purple, right? And then there's one that's

'''Ana Reinert:''' a little bit different. Um, there's, there is actually a gray and I'm looking, maybe that's laying on my desk a second ago. I tried to clean up before I did the podcast cause my desk was a shambles. Oh, it's the shoot, the shoe, chew shoe is what the gray is. And it is actually more of a gray color. Okay. Um, which is really nice, but it is more on the gray side. It's like a warm gray. Um, but the purple is actually much more of a purple. Yeah. That's the Fuji, uh, Fuji Musumi. Okay. So I'm, I'm definitely thinking of the gray cause I knew it was like a really,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' really short name. So yeah, that's the one I want to try. That one's kind of speaking to me. It looks like it's a, it's a pretty unique color. I like that. Yeah. It's so it's, yeah, it's more of a warm gray,

'''Ana Reinert:''' but yeah, definitely. Because that was when I was really looking forward to getting was that warm gray. Cause I really do like gray ink for some reason. Yeah. And, uh, grays are not easy

'''Brad Dowdy:''' to get in a traditional, like straight up gray. We always have an issue with that when we do pen

'''Ana Reinert:''' shows. I'm like, Anna, come help me find a gray. Yeah. And, um, the Sakura Mori looks really good

'''Brad Dowdy:''' in the sailor love. Oh, nice. Yeah. That's just so you know. Yeah. Speaking of which, let's talk about Califolio Andronople, which is Myke's pick. Um, if there's anyone that can talk about that ink color, it's you and I. Yeah. Are you still using Andronople very much? I do. I use it

'''Ana Reinert:''' all the time and I keep switching it around. Like it goes in all sorts of pens, right? It's just

'''Brad Dowdy:''' a good ink and it's a color that will just give you joy. It's, it is. Cause it's not,

'''Ana Reinert:''' it's not like a bright fuchsia pink. It's so like, I don't feel like it's a super girly pink. It's, it's just a really nice color. I think it's, especially as we're moving into cold, dark, dank, wintry days, I think it's just a great colored sort of

'''Brad Dowdy:''' lift people's spirits. Yeah. It just is. It goes in anything. The Califolo inks are so well-behaved kind of like sailor. We talk about that, about sailor a lot, how just of a ease of use and maintenance the sailor inks are. I have the same experience with

'''Ana Reinert:''' anything Califolio. I agree. Yeah. I've not had any problem with the Califolio inks and I think they're just not as well-known. So people haven't had as much experience with them. Yep. But I kind of think of Califolio inks are like if Jay Herban made well-behaved inks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'd say that's very accurate. Very accurate. And branched out with their colors a little bit besides the sparkly stuff. Yeah. There's, there's Jay Herban's stock lineup. I don't think has changed since I've actually been doing this.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. But Jay Herban, their inks are so widely available. I think everybody's familiar with them, but they tend to be real runny and they spread a lot, but everybody's kind of familiar with them. And you're always like, oh, that gray is really pretty. Oh wait, no, it's really, really pale. You know, the Califolios though, they seem to be a lot better behaved, but they clean up really easy and just don't cause me as much heartache. Nope. Nope. And

'''Brad Dowdy:''' that's, that's, that's what we need. All right. So let's jump into paper and Myke, um, he, he pulled this one out of the ether on me. I didn't see this coming from him. He went with the seven seas cross field, which is a fantastic journal. It's, um, from Nanami paper and it's Tomoe river bound into an A5 size grid journal, which I love the paper. I love the grid. Um, the binding of this one is really, really nice. Have you had anything like this? Have you had this journal or, or one similar to it now that they've kind of become a little bit more available? They're

'''Ana Reinert:''' not the easiest things to get your hands on. I have not. Um, I can't the, um, all of the, um, those, I haven't done any of the seven seas books yet. Um, just because a lot of that, um, that paper, because, uh, because it's the ink takes a long to dry on it. I being left-handed, I tend to smear it. So I usually only use that paper if it's in, what do you call them? Travelers notebooks, um, in travelers notebooks because they're, they're really short and skinny. Yeah. So it's less paper. It dries faster.