Editing The Pen Addict 14/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah. And so I haven't inked up anything with the two new inks that I got. I did give away the Monteverdi crystal.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's R2. There's R2, sorry. Making his return to the show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I swear I put this thing on vibrate before we started. You know, I gave away the Monteverdi crystal fountain pen on the pen attic, which is a really cool kind of demonstrator, you know, clear see-through plastic resin barrel fountain pen. It looks really nice. It's kind of new at JetPens. So that got a lot of good comments. One of the pens that to really, you know, we're going from a vanishing point to a pen that I want to talk about that's $1.65 and that I really like and I was really anxious to get. And that's one of the, it's called the Uni Live Pigment Sign Pen. If I asked you what a sign pen was, does that bring up any thoughts or anything like that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nope.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because a lot of people, sign pens were popular.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I remember them being popular like in the 70s. They'd probably go back further than that. But there was a pen, there was actually a pen called the Pentel Sign Pen. And what it is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you remember a few weeks ago, I was talking about the pens that we used to use in school and they were called B-roll handwriting pens. This is what they look like. It's like this plastic nib.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So it's a plastic tip pen. It's like a, I'm going to butcher it because you can't really see it. But it's like a, it's almost like a bristle tip. But it's formed in like a solid plastic. Right. I call them a porous tip pen. You know, they're like a white plastic tip with like, it looks like the black ink or whatever color ink is kind of just kind of leaking out the tip of the pen. You know, it's just kind of flowing there. And I love this type of pen. You know, they do have some issues with breaking down over time. But I like the tightness of the line that they do. And they're usually really dark and thick and sharp. It's a really good writing pen. You know, I think the back in the 70s and 80s, they were really popular for signing documents. You know, this is a pen that, not this Uni Live pigment signed pen, but like the Pentel signed pen that's so famous. You know, that's, you know, the office supply cabinet would be stocked with dozens and dozens of these pens because, you know, there's no e-signatures or electronic signatures or things like that. And this was the chosen pen to sign documents with.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Why?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think because it was a bold, black, rich ink.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, that's the only thing I can think of is that it was, you know, it was wider than, you know, wider than a ballpoint.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it would stand out a little bit more. I don't know the whole lineage and why they became so popular. But I think, I mean, even like presidents were using them and things like that. And this, they're hard to find now, honestly, this style of pen. You know, you're not going to go to OfficeMax or Staples and have any luck in finding a porous tip pen like this. Once in a blue moon, I've talked about one called the Big Z4 porous tip that I found on the store shelf before, but I haven't seen them in years being available. So I was excited to get this one. And actually, when it came in at JetPens, I missed it because it sold out immediately. And then I put it on my notification list. It emailed me when I came in. I ordered two of them in this last order, and now they're already sold out again. So people like this style of pen. I mean, it's cheap. It writes well. It looks good. It's just one of those classics that's kind of been remade a little bit here by Uni.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I really like the look of this. It's kind of on my list now. I have a list in clear, which has my, the pens that I want. Oh, that's a good idea. They have it in other colors. And it's available. It's available in blue at the moment and red.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. I bought two of the extra fine blacks and then a fine blue, which I have a fine, the fine blue review. I have ready to go pretty soon on the pen attic. So since we talked about it, I'll be sure to post that here in the near future. The black's even better because I like the finer tip.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, the black looks really sweet. I mean, even though they're fine, they don't look fine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no, no, not at all. It's probably, like the fine is probably a 0.5 millimeter line, which, you know, most people would consider fine. But it's not some type of, you know, micro, you know, drafting art pen or something like that, like a Secura Pigma Micron. You know, these pens are a writing pen, really.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you're going to buy one of these, you want to make sure you get the one with the metal clip. Because with what I put in the show notes, and again, if you search JetPens for Uni Live Pigment Sign, it also gives one with the same name, but it's a felt tip pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Let me see.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Clicky, clicky.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's more thumpy than clicky.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, more thumpy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so the fine, is that the one you're talking about?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' If you click on it, look at that, that's almost, that's getting into more of a brush tip.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's not really there, but it's getting closer to that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The extra fine ones are the one that we're talking about. But when you get to fine, it is more like a felt tip pen. Yep. Exactly. Amend that. Exactly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's kind of the polar opposite of the vanishing point, and that's why I like, that's why I've always liked pens so much. You can find something really cool for really, really cheap. Yeah, that's great. Gives you that little bit of pleasure, and I think that's why people, you know, are into pens, right? I mean, it can be a cheap, happy fix.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, you can find, I mean, we both have in the past and spoken about it on the show, you can find some real treasures. You know, like a couple of weeks ago, let me see, what was it like? Yeah, a couple of weeks ago when I got the Hitech Point V5 RT, the pilot, and I loved that. You know, I've used that pen for weeks at home for show notes and stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and that's the very good Moleskine pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, for sure.