Editing The Pen Addict 137/transcript (section)

== Kaweco Nib Unit ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Now, I did a review today that a lot of people wanted me to talk about before I posted. It's for the 14-karat gold Kaweco nib unit. So did you know, we talked about these, how they were coming out, right, Myke? You were aware of these nibs?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It doesn't ring a bell.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No? Okay. Yeah, I wasn't sure. But I've had it. Kaweco sent it to me and a few other bloggers to test drive and it's a new part of their lineup. It's a nib. It's the small size number five gold nib that fits the vast majority of their pens. Not every pen, but it fits all the popular ones that we like, like Little Put, AL Sport, AC Sport, Dia, and a few other ones. So it's kind of like, you know, consider it like your Pelican, your M205, right? You bought it with a steel nib, then you upgraded it to a gold nib. Same type of thing. You just screw it out and pop the new nib in. So people wanted to know what I thought about it, so I posted it on the blog today, finally. And it's really good, as you would expect from a German gold nib. I mean, it's not the most special nib I have ever used in my life. You know, it's not some, you know, angel singing type thing, but it's really, really good. Part of it made me why I didn't like totally love it. It's a medium nib and that's the one nib size that I almost never use. I'll use Extra Fine, or Fine, or Broad and Up, but it's like right there smack in the middle, the medium I almost never use, it seems like. It's just not my, the line width that I like. The only real hang up with this is it's pretty expensive, I think, relatively speaking to other nibs. The good thing is that you only need one of these, in my opinion, because you just switch it out to the Kaweco pen you're using and that's how I use my other, my steel nibs. How much is it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' $100?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' 120 euros, so it's about $140. Right. And they're not totally available yet, they're just starting, like Fanta Plumo has them and they're four weeks out from being ordered. I didn't see any other online shops that were actually selling this yet. So, you know, it's pretty expensive. I'd like to pay about $100, which is what I wrote in the, in the review. You know, I think $100 would be a good price, but, you know, it's $140. That's pretty high. You know, I can get a Lamy 2000 for that price, but it's also a very useful nib in the fact that you can use it in so many different pens and for such a fan of Kaweco as I am, that actually becomes pretty useful to me. I probably have six or eight Kaweco pens that this would fit and right now I only use two nibs between all those anyway. I use an extra fine nib or I use a stub nib that I had ground by Sean Newton and whenever I decide to use one of my little puts or AL Sports or whatever pen, I just decide which nib I want and, and screw it into the pen that I want to use. So, having one of these I think would be useful, but it's not going to be like a immediate purchase just because it's really expensive. looks pretty

'''Myke Hurley:''' with the brass that I put.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, so I played around decided which one I wanted to take the photographs with so that one worked out pretty well. So this is the two-tone nib. Right now it's only available in medium then they have the solid gold nib and it's available in the range from extra fine to double broad I believe.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Anyway, some people wanted to hear about that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know how we're making the worst podcast ever today, you know, like breaking all the rules and stuff. Yes. I have another rule to break. Okay. So I found a spelling error in your post.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, good. I like, oh, I just found it. I can't believe you said that. Approximately. Approximately.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just happen to be scrolled right to that spot. Usually, usually these posts launch at eight o'clock and usually by eight oh five, I've got the spelling corrections in from the Twitterati. But that one's, that one's hung out there. Are you people not reading my post? What's going on out there?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I hadn't seen that one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So I, no matter how many times you reread these posts, something always sneaks through. You can only, only blind yourself so much with the text. So I will fix that after the show. Thank you, Michael. I always appreciate the spelling and grammar corrections. I'm not one of those people that, that tells people to go jump in a lake. I want you to tell me so I can fix it because I would be happy to have a normal looking post without spelling errors.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I like this main topic, Myke. Yeah. So basically, you came up with this all by yourself. I'm so proud of you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My little boys

'''Brad Dowdy:''' all grown up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So today, Brad sent me a message and he was like, I, I know, I'm swamped. I need you to do this, to do the show notes, like to plan out the episode. And I was like, oh, I was terrified because I've never done that before, I didn't think. And I was like, I have no idea what to talk about. And then I kind of came up with a few, a few interesting things here, I think. A bunch of follow-up items I pulled in and a couple of topics, you know. I think I did a good job.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Shoot, yeah. I was, I was raving about you, at least to you. I think that's a career

'''Myke Hurley:''' for me in this podcasting game.