Editing The Pen Addict 739/transcript (section)

== Vintage Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I'll start reading it. And then we can... Brandon. Brandon. Brandon. Brandon wrote in and said, I wanted to see what either of you would do in a situation like this. About a week before, you got your Pilot Vanishing Point, Brad, from the pen shows. This is a long time ago, right? Yeah. Like early 20-teens. So a week before that, Brandon purchased theirs. I have used it almost every week since then. It was worn nicely over time, showing the brass that's underneath. Earlier this week, the rear barrel retaining collar for the plunger broke. So it's the plastic held underneath the collar piece where the knock is. Would you take your losses and appreciate the fact that you've got over 10 years of daily use out of this pen and move on to another daily writer? Or would you send it to Pilot to get it fixed, knowing that they will likely just replace it with a new body, losing the classic worn appearance? Have you seen this image yet? I've seen the image. So I'm going to put it in the show notes. I looked at it today. Okay. And I'm going to explain it to you. So imagine a black vanishing point in which essentially none of the black remains. And it is a very patinaed, scratched, marked brass barrel pen that I will say right now is gorgeous. Like it's beautiful.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I love this. Then we're going to end up in the same place on this answer. Yeah. You hang it in the museum and you buy another one. Oh, we're not going to land in the same place. Okay. Try and get it fixed. I don't want this fixed. Because to Brandon's point, they're going to look at this and they're going to go, absolutely not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Why do you think that?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because it's so old. And plus they're going to charge you probably, I don't know, $50 to $70 just to replace it. I think you're done. I think you hang it in the museum, appreciate, give it a good salute, say you performed well. Well, okay. I agree with you. Honestly, I would replace it with another exact one of the same. Yes. Just go round two.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I would try and see if you can find someone or get Pilot to commit that the fix that they will do is replace what's needed. Right? Now that's fair. I could see that. That's what I mean. I think you should try to get this fixed, but not if it means that you risk losing this. Right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I actually wouldn't let this out of my hands. I would take it to a pen show and like a bigger, like a Washington DC and see if someone can do this. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And similarly, we're putting it out there. If somebody out there believes that they can do it or knows someone that they can get in touch with us and we can pass that information on to Brandon. Because I think that this pen deserves to continue to live. But it needs, but I agree with you. If you believe that you can't like get it fixed or that, you know, basically you're told it's just replacement or nothing, then yeah, this becomes a thing that lives in your home somewhere. And then you buy another one and you do it all over again.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This rule is so hard. I love this. I don't know what you do to get a pen like this. Like, I don't know what Brandon is doing with this pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Using it every day for over a decade. Like, I don't have any products like that. Right? I have too many pens. I use too much stuff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I just don't know how the use of a human does this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, I don't know what's happening. Well, if it's been in like a pocket or I don't know, man. It's aggressive.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It rolls. It's so good. It's beautiful. They should make this. If you're listening, make this pen. Sell this pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, now you know why I like the Y Studio Brassing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.