Editing The Pen Addict 617/transcript (section)

== Shout Out ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, Myke, we got a shout out of the week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Shout out of the week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Blice Tift. One of the OGs in the stationary space, mainly pencil reviews and commentary. Matias has kind of like moved away from like just pure reviews. And one of the cool things he does is always posts about stationary in real life, whether it's a movie, a TV show, you know, what's that pen? What's that pencil they're using? You know, different different ways we're seeing stationary and trying to figure out what this front, what the where the items from or what item they're they're actually using in there. So I always enjoy the content from that. It's a lot of stationary in the real world stuff, some trip reviews, some shop visits and just some really fun stuff. And it's been doing this for a long time. So shout out to Blice Tift. One of my favorite reads. Always enjoy when I see something popping up about some TV show and what pen or pencil they're using. It's always it's always fun to figure that out because people always have questions. I do. I play the same game all the time. I was like, oh, I just saw this. What is that? Right. So, yeah, it's it's fun to track, fun to follow. All right. I've got my what am I using here? And the most recent review that I did was for Tasha Ainzou Inc. And the pen I chose is one that I really, really like. It's the Skagze Chola in micarta. It's a black micarta. So it looks kind of a gray, gray looking pen. I love the micarta material. And this particular pen, it takes yoga number six nibs. But I've always kept the same nib in this one because I had a really nice architect grind on it done by the nib tailor. And it's on a broad steel nib. And it's a really clean architect nib that I enjoy writing with. So I. I. I find myself with this micarta material just holding the pen a lot or holding the cap in my hand when I'm writing with it. And even though it's not like this completely tactile, it's not like it's rough right on the outside. It just feels different than the acrylics that we use in a lot of our pens or the metals that we have in a lot of our pens. And it's just something like super enjoyable about holding micarta. And I just like the concept of micarta as a pen material. I did want to bring up one comment on micarta for people that might not be familiar with. And it's something that comes up, came up in this pen and myself and Scogs, he talked about this, that micarta as a material is actually will wick moisture out of the air. Right. Like you don't notice it. Right. It's not like something you see, like if you leave it out in humidity, your pen is going to be wet. But what that affects is when you have a nib and a feed in a cap in a very dry, arid space is what this really is. So sometimes you get hard starts out of micarta. And that's, for lack of a better term, a feature. Right. That's like the expectation is that, oh, I'm going to have hard starts with this pen. And then when you combine it with a very dry ink, like I did with Tasha Einzu, every time I pick it up to write, if it's been more than a day, like if it's been a couple of days or a week, I have to work to get the pen writing. And that's just a property of micarta material. A lot of times when they're sealed in the cap. Even though they're technically airtight, right? It's a fibrous material. Right. So that's why the more I use this pen, you'll see my hand oils like on the pen. It's going to change the character of the pen. That's why I like my pen, right? Because it does change. It patinas. Exactly.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Does that also mean you could stain it? Like with ink? A hundred percent.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's like the easiest thing you can do is stain this pen. So you don't ever dip the grip section into a bottle of ink. I just fill the converter from the bottle and then put the converter into the nib unit, into the section. So yeah. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can tell from this article though, you didn't know this information when you were using your TWSBI.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So my old TWSBI is soaked in ink. No, I did know that. So that's a completely different story. Okay. This was a huge TWSBI QC issue. We had cracked housings. So that ink actually came from the inside. You know, the enemy was on the inside in that case. So that was not dipped in there if you look at pictures.