Editing The Pen Addict 89/transcript (section)

== Pentel Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I got another email just about a new product that Pentel is coming out with several years ago. And I used to get emails on this from time to time. They had a mechanical pencil that was 0.2 millimeters. And that's, like, ridiculous for a pencil lead.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Humans.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, I've used as much as I like fine tip pens, and I've used 0.3 millimeter mechanical pencil leads. 0.3 millimeter is too fine.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sorry.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sorry. I translated the page.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's great, isn't it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Can I read this to you?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I was actually going to put something in the show notes about the translation, but yeah, I didn't. I'm glad you're enjoying it. But we have this link to the show notes, and I just wanted to mention this. It's called the Pentel Orens, I believe is how you pronounce it, O-R-E-N-Z. Pentel is the only one that I knew of that used to have a 0.2 millimeter lead mechanical pencil, and I never got one. Jet pens stopped carrying them. You could never find it. I could never find one. I just wanted one to see what it's like. 0.3 is too fine for me. Obviously, 0.2 would be as well, but just to have something that fine would be fun to play around with. And they stopped making them several years ago, despite the fact that they still manufacture 0.2 millimeter lead. The pencils aren't easy to find, and now they're coming out with a new 0.2 millimeter pencil. So for anyone who's interested in that, and I know a few people are based on some of the emails I've gotten in the past, I don't know when or where you'll be able to get these, but it looks like they're going to make it a more, it's not completely a, it's not a totally drafting engineering style pencil. It looks like more of a mainstream design. So I'm guessing we might see these at places like JetPens and other retailers and things like that in the coming months or years, depending on how long it takes people to get on board. But it's a new product for 2014, and I thought it was a cool link. You can get lost in some of these Japanese pen pages, huh?

'''Myke Hurley:''' 2014 mechanical pencil that is not broken core marvelously. Even ultrafine 0.2 Urenzo will be released from the sun. That was the part that I saw. It is the extra lead sharp microfiber that can be used. So Urenzo. Oh, man. It just doesn't. It just doesn't. You cannot do direct translation of languages that use a different syntax. It's just not.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. But that release from the sun part was killing me last night when I saw this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't even know what that could have come from. Why did it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Very quick. I want to give one last piece of follow-up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I'm going to let you take this one.