Editing The Pen Addict 259/transcript (section)

== Aurora Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' This is all killing me, right? Like, I didn't pick up an Aurora pen this year. Mm-hmm. And I keep seeing them, like the Nebulosa, right? And I'm like, ugh, I want one. They're very expensive, right? Just in general. I know that they're less expensive than they used to be, but they are still, they're still pretty expensive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're very expensive pens. There's, even with whatever price reductions US gets, they're super expensive. Yeah. No doubt.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's one of those things where I'm like, this is a new pen for me, right? Like, I haven't really used one in really kind of a lot, like, in a lot of detail. Like, I haven't spent a lot of time with them. And when I look at the prices of them, I think of all of the other pens that I want, like, that I know that I really want or stuff that I've tried. You know, like, I look at the price of this and I'm like, this looks real nice. We're talking about the Aurora 88 Minerale. We'll talk about it in a second, right? In more detail, but just so I can give a bit more context. And this is beautiful. The, the Nebulosa, is it Nebulosa?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, what's that? The purple one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The purple is the Nebulosa, yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, I look at that too and I'm like, oh my gosh, I really want one of those. But it's, I think about, like, a Nakaya. Right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because like, something like the Nebulosa, it's like a couple of hundred dollars if that difference between that and a Nakaya and I'm like, I can't justify it. Right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I agree completely. And, I look at the Minerale and I think, well, I've got two already and as awesome as this looks, so I need to spend that money on a similar writing experience or a similar feel. Now, it's a different look and when I first saw this in Chicago, Brian from Kenro basically walked over and had it in his jacket pocket, you know, and pulled it out and just held it in front of me and I was like, dang, give me that. And, because it looks so cool and he told me the story of what it was and Aurora's gonna be doing a, at least four colors that he was telling me. So, this is the blue one. Um, it's azuriti for azurite blue and the other ones I don't have complete confirmation on but what he told me was you're gonna get nebulosa finials so you get the purples, you'll get the sole finials which are the yellow that they released last year and then the, the red color which I have in my other demonstrator, I don't know what that red color is called. So, these are gonna look great. Um, and they're limited edition 333 so you know they're gonna be expensive. I can't, I don't even recall the price point. They may not even had it at the time. But, I said, can I take pictures of them? And so I just, I just tossed them down on the table and tried to take, they're not great quality pictures. And, um, I got up to the room that night and I was writing the newsletter for the Pen Addict members about the show and I was gonna include that in there then I said, you know what, I never asked Brian if I could share this. And, I'm careful about that kind of stuff and I texted him and I said, hey, can I share these pictures? And he's like, you know what, I don't know, let me find out and I'll tell you. And, turns out, I couldn't. So, I was glad I asked and then he texted me yesterday and he said, hey, you can release those pictures because they have all the details out now. So, they'll probably be pricing and all that stuff out. I think they're coming out next month, late next month, early July, something like that. But, the shape of this pen is awesome. The colors they're gonna come in are fantastic. I think it looks great. It's a great looking pen. It really is. Yeah, I just like, I just like those, the shape and the feel of those pens and especially the nibs. I really like their nibs.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah, the, that's gonna be a new release this year and it just kind of came up out of the blue.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. They're gonna, they get you, man. These pen companies, they get you. Especially if they do

'''Myke Hurley:''' like that demonstrator one with the Nebulosa finial, like that's gonna be real hard for me to turn away because I really like the Nebulosa but the only thing that I go back on is I think it's too, it can be a little bit too much. Right? Like it's, I would like it, whilst it's incredibly beautiful, it feels like maybe at times when I look at it I'm like, there's a, there's a, there's quite overstated, right? Like there's a lot of it going on but just having like a hint of that might be really interesting. Yeah. Oh dear.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, as, as good as Aurora is in, in all things pen related, there's another company, Myke, that, in the show notes, I just called them dumb. Lamy is dumb.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. Okay. Okay. I, I, I,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' they're just, they've confused me for the last couple of years. There's so many things that they've done that we've had to question and this one, their explanation makes sense to a degree. So, what the issue is, is Lamy is no longer providing extra fine nibs to the United States market.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It seems like a very strange thing to say or to do, actually. We should just say to do because they're doing it. It's done.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Basically, Lamy is saying we don't have enough ability to manufacture enough EF nibs because they take a little extra work. So, therefore, all the extra fine nibs we're going to focus on markets that are better than yours which are Europe and Asia.