Editing The Pen Addict 397/transcript (section)

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I think that pen is better looking than any pen we just went through on the limited editions. And this is a North American limited edition, but that's a larger scale of limited edition, right? This is kind of the annual colorway. Well, what's multi-annual, bi-annual? It's maybe more than once a year. I don't know what the correct term is for that. I love how the Lucky Charm looks. I like that blue with the rhodium trim. Two-tone nib, I think it's stunning. You can get it at Pen Chalet. You can use the code PENADDIC10, get 10% off. That's pretty tight. So, yeah, semi-annual, that's the word I'm looking for. Thank you, chat room. I think it's great. I think this is a wonderful looking pen. And this falls in the more standard price range, and you get something unique looking. I just think this color is fantastic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, this one I'm having a hard time not buying, right? Because I do not need this pen. I have the 4AM. It's very blue. I have the King of Pen and Sky. It's very blue. I don't need another blue transparent pen in my life. This one's a tough one because it kind of checks all my boxes. But in the additional Pen Antic listener discount category, there's two knockouts in here. I mean, there's always more than two pens in this list, but I can't talk about them all. The Kaweco AL Sport.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we're professed sailor lovers here, and I know it probably drives some people crazy, but that's okay by me because they do it as good as anyone else. But Platinum, Michael. Platinum. Has taken some sailor mojo with the Curidos, and we actually have one in hand. At least one of us does. So let me let you run with this Platinum Curidos. Oh, look at you. Look at you. There it goes. So let's hear all about the Curidos, and more importantly, maybe the event that you went to.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, so I went to the, I believe, the UK launch event for the Platinum Curidos. My favorite store in London that I've mentioned before on the show, Choosing Keeping. Oh, by the way, I found out today that the, my Platinum, the 3776, the Galaxy, the Milky Way, it is on its way from Japan back to England.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Containing what? We don't know yet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They did not answer the question. They have just said it's on the way. I love every part of this. So the mystery remains. We'll find out. I'm actually pretty confident I'm going to get the correct nib. I would be super surprised if they didn't do that, but we'll see. So it's on the way. So, yeah, I was at, because I believe Choosing Keeping, they have an exclusive on the Curidas in the UK right now. So if you want to get one, that's where you got to get one. So you got to go there. We had a, it was a wonderful event that they put on. I met two Panatic listeners at the event. Wonderful. Which is always nice. And they had some representatives from Platinum in Japan come to this launch event. And with them, they brought a selection of pens from Platinum's history. Some of them actually belonged to Choosing Keeping's wonderful store owner. Like they actually had a couple themselves. Platinum just brought like, here is just like a selection of stuff that has been important to us over our history. It was really nice to see that. They had these like display cases. And it was just nice to look around and you could see how some pens had influenced the design of others. Like they, they had brought one of the Platinum Platinum Platinum pens, you know, like the 10 gram one. Yeah. And it was put, I remember that. Exactly. It was put next to the pen that it inspired as well. So it was like nice to see that kind of, that it was inspired by, which is an older pen in Platinum's book. It was really nice to see all of that. And that was for the 100th anniversary last year. Yeah, exactly. So, um, on a quick aside, Choosing Keeping, the store just continues to get better. Like I was like looking around and they had like an Arushi King of Pen in the cabinet to buy. Like their curation in that store is like, it's the best that I've seen in any pen store I've ever been to. Nice. Just like, you know, I mentioned this before, but like their paper aisle is just hit after hit, right? You know, it's like, oh, Nemesign next to Tomorrow River Paper, next to Life Notebooks, right? Like it's just, you know, very, very, very good. If you are in London or are planning to be close to London and want to see a pen store, this is the one. Very, very knowledgeable, very nice stuff. Like they're, they're, they're great there. It's a destination worth making, making the effort to get to. I think so. Like genuinely, like if you care about this stuff, like it is, it's worth attending. It's like just worth going to see. Um, I met a Platinum vice president. Nice. And was talking to them about the Curidas. And they said a few things to me that were really interesting that I hadn't heard before. Uh, and that were kind of curious about the Curidas. Uh, apparently they wanted to release the Curidas this year because of the Tokyo Olympics. Because the first attempt that they had at this pen was also when the Olympics were lost in Tokyo. Which was what? 70s? Something like that. Yeah. So that was, so it was kind of like for them, it was like a great time to do it now. Cause I just said to them like, why now? Like, why are you doing this pen now? Um, I also asked about why did they choose demonstrator colors? Like why, why did they want all the pens to be clear? Yeah. And they said that they believe that these designs attract younger audiences, um, which is who they're going for. And they want to leave the, uh, business professionals market to pilot. Huh. I love that. I kind of, I kind of like that. Mm-hmm. Um, you have never heard anybody more proud of something than they are of the seal in this pen?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. So like, yeah. So like the marketing is pretty clear. Like all the arrows point towards the seal at the, at the opening.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But they, they are very happy about it in person.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, they are very happy about it. And like, so I think that's like another, they didn't say this, but I believe it's like another reason why they wanted to go with demonstrator because you can see some of the mechanisms going around inside of it. Right. So it's like, I think that they're again, especially proud of it, but they told, they gave more context to it that I'd not seen before. And I thought was kind of beautiful. So apparently in Japan, there is a pretty much like an agreed upon standard that after three months of, without using a fountain pen, you should be able to uncrap it and start writing a line and that the pen should work within 10 centimeters. Right. Oh, okay. That is like the expectation of what a fountain pen should be able to achieve. So after three months, you should have a pen that should start writing within a line of 10 centimeters. Okay. And the Curidas will do this after, so they have their six month thing, right? Mm-hmm. The Curidas will start writing within three centimeters.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So they have, I'm picturing a lab, Myke, with all these pens laid out and timeframe set and like official measurements happening. Like there's no doubt in my mind that this pen can do this based on just the Japanese in general and how much they believe in this type of thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. That's awesome. Let me tell you, I have absolutely no idea what all that reference to twist was about, Brad. I think that might've been a translation issue. Okay. Fair enough. There's nothing twisting in this mechanism. Okay. It's just a knock. Gotcha. Like if there's something twisting, I can't see it nor feel it. Right. So like, I don't really know what was going on there. They had all of the colors of the Curidas. I like the green and the red the most. The clear is also nice. No. But the green is what I got. And I have a fine nib in mine. Nice. To get to the refill, I also got like, they gave me a goodie bag at Choosing Keeping. I believe they're sending one to you actually. Oh, nice. But it has a blue-black ink in it, which is made from the water from Mount Fuji. Excuse me. There's water from Mount Fuji and they use that to create this blue-black ink. I'm going to need this. You have some. Good. They're in cartridges. It's coming to you. So that's what I have in my Curidas. Okay. I just thought it was super cute and I love that idea. Okay. Let me tell you, my friend, this is the absolute craziest system of getting to a refill that I have ever experienced. You feel like you are opening a vault at Fort Knox. Like, it's bananas. Bananas. All right. So you have to unscrew the pen, right? So you'd like unscrew it. You take it by half. So like in the middle, right? Mm-hmm. Okay. And then there is like this mechanism. So you can see you then have the whole pen mechanism, right? That's what you're left with. Okay. Where you have to push the body down and to the left to kind of like unlock it, you know? So like you push it down to like part engage it and then you turn it and you pull it out. Okay. Right? So you like turn, twist, pull.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's like a seating that you have to unseat it to get it out of the exterior, the interior out of the exterior.