Editing The Pen Addict 382/transcript (section)

== Pilot Decimo ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Now I get it. So we'll have these images in the show notes. The first batch is what the primary set of images is. It has, you know, like a navy blue, a gray, like a chartreusey green.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Some of these pictures are hard to see because it looks like a brushed metal. Like it's a little bit hard to tell exactly in the colors. So yeah, it's like a grayish blue, a brown, a turquoise, a chartreuse, and a pink. So those are the first set of colors. But then we have another picture that I, it could probably use some better lighting. And this was just, I don't even know where this came from. Reddit maybe. That has the layout of all the releases. So even these pictures look different from the one. It's the same general colors, but like all these colors look darker than the pictures I'm seeing on like Rakuten or Bung Box or any of those. Regardless of the pictures, cool. I'm happy for this. Like I don't need any of these. I don't really want any of these. I'd probably pick one up if I had the opportunity just to see what it's about. But at least it's something. And I don't need every company to make everything a special edition. But when you look at Sailor, like we were just talking about, how they have kind of pushed the envelope of creativity. And you see a huge competitor like Pilot just sitting there with their black and gold and black and silver pens and their one vanishing point a year special edition. And I know they make lots of like store brands and individual, like super low volume stuff like in Japan. I get that. But I'm talking about like the main lineup. So why doesn't the 91 or the 912 have more color choices in them? And this is what I want to see. So I don't know. Maybe this is something along those lines. I mean, 20 is a lot. They've kind of like pushed their chips in on this one a little bit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They've really like gone from like zero to 100 on this one. Right, right. Just chill out, guys. It's fine. But sure, go for it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. But, you know, it'll do well. It's like do they need all these colors? When you look at the full palette and you see like, you know, three colors that are pretty close to each other, like three times over. Right. They're not that much differentiation. But I appreciate that they're doing this. And I want to see more of it from someone like Pilot, who is just sitting on these pen designs that are great. And they could just really do a better job ramping them up. So, you know, it's this is not something like I want to chase or hunt down. I just like seeing this type of thing from a company that I love, but who is honestly, I think they've just they've just fallen behind, not in like quality or style or anything, but just in like the pen addict consciousness, which they don't care about. Like they don't care like what we say on this show. So their customers, you know, in Japan and all around the world that, you know, want these types of things. But like for the things that we're into, like I'm like, yes, let's see the needle move a little bit, Pilot. I like seeing this. So you're not a vanishing point guy. But what do you just think in the general terms of this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let me ask you just for clarity's sake, the Decimo and the vanishing point, are they the same? There's like some slight differences.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So the Decimo is generally a thinner barrel. These pictures call them like some of the links call them capless, which is the standard vanishing point. And the Decimo is a thinner one. These look like the standard size vanishing point to me. So I'm just I am. I will admit to not being fully clear because I'm seeing mixed information in various links. So the link to the Rakuten page calls them the capless. So the capless is what we know as the vanishing point. Right. The Decimo is the thinner version. It's not that much thinner version, which is equally as nice. Uses the same nib unit anything. It's just a little bit of a thinner pin. And I cannot for the life of me. The pictures look like a regular vanishing point, but I'm not going to I'm not going to swear one way or the other, which which it is because it's a little confusing to me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' OK. Yeah, they don't work for me so much because.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And actually, I don't own a Decimo. I would actually prefer them to be a Decimo so I can try to buy one and see what it's all about. I don't have a Decimo. They just haven't released any like great colors. It's the Decimo in the U.S. market is like the second class citizen behind the vanishing point. Right. The vanishing point gets all the love in the U.S. market. Then they'll release like a couple of Decimos every few years and change the colors up a little bit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' OK.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I've never I've never latched onto one, but I'll get one eventually. And if it's a Decimo of these, I would like to get one. Who knows what color? Something bright.