Editing The Pen Addict 64/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a fantastic list. It's got a lot of the ones that we talk about all the time. Just, you know, Platinum Preppy, Kaweco Sport, Lamy Safari, Twisby Diamond 580, you know, the Pilot Vanishing Point, the Lamy 2000. And it's got all the classics in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Out of that entire list, his number one pen, it's actually, if you look at the, well, and we'll have all these links in the show notes. You guys know that. But I'm looking at a list of the pens that he went down. He started backwards. And with the number 20 pen first, which was the Platinum Preppy, all the way down to the number one pen. It's a pen I had never heard of or seen. But when I went and looked at it, Myke, it's fascinating. So you need to go look at the Visconti Opera Crystal. And he says it's with a mosquito filler. You have to see this filling system on this pen. I have never seen anything like it before. And it's quite amazing. And now I want it. It's a very expensive pen. And I'll explain while Myke's going to look up the link. But basically, it's a two-compartment ink reservoir in the pen. Okay? So say you're holding the pen. The larger reservoir towards the back end of the pen is basically your bulk filling section. Your large quantity of ink is going in there. And I think it's – I don't know if it's a twist that makes the change. But you hold the pen like in the writing position. You twist the bottom of the pen like where the section and the grip is. And that loads the bottom reservoir to get the ink into the writing position. So the nib and the feed will start getting ink to write. And when you're done, you can reverse the process. You stick the nib up in the air. You twist it. And the ink flows back into the main reservoir. Twist it again. And you seal it off. So the ink's protecting you from leaking.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's fascinating. So there's two pens? Hmm?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Is it two pens? I'm a bit confused. No. Oh, no. There's just two pens in this link that I'm looking at.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah. It's one pen. So like the back end of it is a bulk ink reservoir. And you twist the front of it. And the ink flows down into the writing section.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Have you got a good link for this? I found one on Fountain Pen Network. But it's just showing images. And it's not really helping me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, Stephen's video is really the best because he shows the ink moving back and forth.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So people should look at that. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, he's got an individual link to that specific pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, really?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'll put that in the show notes too. It's hard to explain because I've never seen anything before like that. Whoops.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's, you know, Stephen talked about it being great for airplanes and stuff. Because you just reverse the ink back into the main compartment of the pen. And, whoa, there you go. Yeah, there you go. That's from Stephen's intro. Yeah. And you're protected from it linking. It's, I had never seen this. I don't know how I've never seen this pen. It's really cool. But it's, yeah, it's hard to explain. So go check out the links. Go check out Stephen's videos. But it's basically a sectioned off fountain pen to where you can move the ink between the sections when you're, when the pen's not in use and when the pen's in use. So it's, it was a great idea. It's a very expensive pen. I think it's around $500 or $600. But despite the fact that it does all these weird ink things, I thought it looked really cool, too. So.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Very, very, very nice looking.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So anyway, check out Stephen's videos. Make sure you have a lot of time because not only is this a long video, once you watch this, you're going to want to go watch the rest of Stephen's videos. And like I said, there's 380 of them. So subscribe to his YouTube channel. Watch his videos. If you want to learn about fountain pens and just learn some of the terminology, just watch two or three of his videos. And he just, he talks about everything. He's very thorough. And you will learn a lot from watching Stephen's videos. So be sure to check that out. All right, mate. You got any, you got any follow-up you, you need to go through?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nothing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You don't want to talk about his Bradness that was born yesterday? His Bradness of, Bradness of Penmanshire? We don't need to cover that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Is that what we're calling him? He hasn't got a name yet. Well, the Prince of Cambridge. No, no, no.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He does have a name. They've been emailing me trying to clear the authorization to use that name. So it's in discussion right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You're just, yeah, all right. What are you asking for? What's your, what's your bounty?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I want, uh, I want a pen that says, welcome, royal baby. That probably already is. Yeah, I want one of those floaty pens with a little baby floaty. So when I turn it upside down, you know, he swims around.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I haven't really got anything to say.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Are you going to be able to do the ad read now?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Of course, Brad.