Editing The Pen Addict 169/transcript (section)

== Field Notes ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So, no, I have the full set. The whole shooting match. You ever need to buy a new car?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, wait till I put my kids through college. No. I'll still write in them. I mean, or, you know, I'm not worried about selling field notes. I just find this...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Don't write in them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Egregious.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Don't write in them. The early packs. Don't break them open.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no, no, no. I won't. I'm not breaking open the seed ones that I have, but I have duplicates of some that I've written in. You know I've written in Butcher Orange. I need to... I think I have an extra Butcher Blue. I need to start using. Things like that. And it doesn't faze me in the least. I get huge enjoyment out of using them. They're still one of the coolest products on the market. They evoke a feeling that you don't get when you get a lot of products. There's just... Whatever they did, whatever special sauce... They had a good recipe and mixed it up right. So we love those guys. So we need to get Brian and or Jim on soon. We will do that. We've had Brian on a long time ago. Probably 100 episodes by this point. And Jim's been on with you on Inquisitive, I think. Yeah. So we'll get them on here one day soon. All right. I got a few other things I want to follow up on. But why don't you want to talk about one of our good friends? Because I need to get on this bandwagon quickly.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I keep saying I'm going to go order them and I keep forgetting. So while you were talking, I just put that in my calendar list to go order, especially now that I'm back from DC. I think I have some good pictures that I'd like to get. You know, there's some good ones of me and Jeff. And, you know, want to want to test that out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You could fit the office.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we're good for the office. And I've seen the results of these and they look pretty amazing. So, yeah, I will have one ordered this week, one or more. All right. There's a link I wanted to share that I retweeted a couple weeks ago, but I thought it was cool enough to bring back up in the podcast because it's not often you get someone who has the time to, you know, to put into like an ink test like Brian did here for us on Twitter. So he did a one month ink test. Paper is 108 bright, 28 pound, one month and three to four hours direct and six hours indirect sun each day. So the left side of the image is the original after writing test. And then the right side of the images after the one month in the direct and indirect sunlight. And I thought this was pretty cool. So, you know, there's some it's a smaller picture and he says he'll send me some a larger one if I need it. But it's some cool results. You see like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Gosh, I don't know, like the pilot juices did well and inner gels, the gels did pretty well. So the ballpoints pretty much vanished in the sun. A couple of very tame fountain pen inks vanished. Waterman blue being one of them. And like pilots, the pilot standard inks, blue and red, they faded a lot. But then there's some really good things like Noodler's Heart of Darkness, like everyone talks about how good of an ink that is and how.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know if that is Heart of Darkness, a bulletproof ink. I can't remember, but it held up extremely well. You know, some of the obviously Sharpie is going to hold up really well with the permanent marker, but it's a good it's a good link to check out. This is one of those links that I save like I'm a pinboard guy, so I can go back. This is something I want to hunt down, you know, like six months from now, if I had a question, see how it went. One of the interesting ones is one of my favorite inks, the Roaring Clingner Scabiosa Iron Gaul. It almost vanished in the sunlight, which is kind of neat or not neat. I shouldn't say neat. It's not neat. I don't want that one to vanish.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The thing is, though, with this, how often is your ink like indirect sunlight?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's not. But, you know, this is only a one month test. And, you know, over, you know, several years, you know, you may have it exposed, you know, more than normal. You know, I think about students a lot when I when I save posts like this, because I always get asked about, you know, what's the great student pen? And, you know, they're oftentimes writing a lot and moving and shuffling in their car in and about. So there's a little bit more chance for exposure than others. It's just a good to see, you know, the properties that these inks have, you know, even if you're not you're not sitting there and you're in your on your back porch in the sun. I mean, I know this would never be an issue over in England because there is no sunlight. Right. So all the inks would work well over there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And they should do a darkness and overcast test.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Dark, overcast and rain test. I can put Brian on that. He's he's done some posts for me years ago. He does lab work. So he's he's into this kind of into this kind of stuff. So he did a bunch of chemical tests on inks. So it's cool. He's always sending me these kind of inks. But I thought this is more of a good reference than, you know, necessarily a great talking point for the blog. It's this is something I save so I can refer back to later. And I thought other people might be interested in it.