Editing The Pen Addict 214/transcript (section)

== Montegrappa Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' But this is a Montegrappa monstrosity, I guess. Like the chaos. You know, it's another in their monstrosities line.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's not quite to that level. But, yeah. We're, it's on the path.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, this one kind of, I think of it as, like, a monstrosity. And what they're attempting to do or what they're trying to, I don't know. What they're kind of saying. Oh, by the way, the plays here is on pen cheller. Yes, definitely. I've just, I've put that in the show notes. I was looking there to see if you could get it. So, I was wondering what a place was to get it. And, of course, pen cheller is the place to get it. So, the, I don't even know why this pen, well, actually, I do know why this pen exists. I don't know why anyone thinks they could make it. So, it is a fountain pen with four bays, I guess, for ink cartridges. So, you put four ink cartridges in it. And then there's, like, a bolt mechanism to twist the cartridges around. To, I guess, to reconnect them to the feed or something. The mechanism is a little lost on me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's basically a revolver where you put six bullets in, except you put four ink cartridges in.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, because there is, it does kind of look like a gun.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right, so, go ahead. It just seems ridiculous to me. Because, like, they talk about in this article on Quill and Paddle, like, how does it work? Like, wouldn't it just, all your ink is going to get mixed up when you change them around, right? Because it's all going to be in the feed. And Monte Grappa provide this little cleaning system thing. So, you can clean out the feed. But I just think, at that point, why are you even doing it? Like, if you haven't come up with some kind of magic to be able to swap the colors around real easy, like it's a multi-pen, then there's no point in doing this. Because if you've got to carry around this little cleaning equipment and clean it, then you might as well just have an extra cartridge in you. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense to me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, none of that's the problem. Right? I mean, tell them what the problem is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, how much is it? Is that the problem? It's $10,000. Yeah. I mean, yes, of course that is ridiculous. But I'm just, like, from a technical perspective, it's $10,000 for aggravation.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, for a pain.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't really get it. I mean, I know, as I said, I know why it exists. Because to non-Fountain Pen users, this seems like, wow. You know, for the same reason that chaos exists. Right. It's like, oh my God, look at this thing. Like, you can put so many ink cartridges in it. It's amazing. Really, there's no function to it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It can't be functional. Right. It can't be functional. And, I mean, this is well over a year ago. Right? I mean, when this article came out. That's April. I know we talked about it back then. Because I was talking with Kinro, because they carry Montegrappa. That was the time when I was reviewing some OMOS for them. And they sent me the link of, hey, look at this. And I went back through. I have an 80 email thread with Kinro. So, I didn't dig through all of it. But I know at some point last year, we talked about it. I looked through some of the show notes. I couldn't find that. We actually linked to it in the show notes. So, I can't say what episode. But everyone in the chat room is like, yeah, we've talked about this. We've heard about this. We've seen this before. And I know it sticks in my head because I knew the price before I even looked at it. Because we've gone through this before.