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== Sailor Sky High ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' some places well the Sailor Sky High is the bright blue yeah and it's not available anywhere anymore um as of probably this spring it's just not available so yeah I I gotta think about it I'm a little bit torn on that is like I don't want to be talking about products that aren't easy to come by um Joe Lebo on Twitter actually mentioned well maybe you should have a discontinued products top five or a discontinued fountain pen inks that

'''Myke Hurley:''' might be a little uh I think pens it's okay because you can buy them in secondhand on eBay but ink runs out ink will all inks will eventually run out so I don't know if I think when an ink is discontinued maybe it should be removed from the list yeah maybe so

'''Brad Dowdy:''' it's just that I usually always have a pen inked with that color because it's so good but um yeah I I definitely see that point and then the fifth ink is a new one the Sailor Yamadori is actually one of the new replacement inks it's a very very beautiful beautiful ink um it's kind of a teal and it's got a sheen to it and I'm surprised I um like it as much as I do because it's one of those colors I generally don't do much teal but it it came out really good um and then the rest of the list the top five blue black fountain pen inks um the Ackerman number eight that I mentioned before that I won't pronounce again because you've already made fun of me in the chat room um that's uh that's high up there on on the list and the Sailor Blue Black and Pelican and Lamy I see I use all those frequently the next several lists had no change on them and I don't know if that's what that says um are those things kind of done I kind of think the paper products is is ripe for disruption everything in this top five paper products is are papers that I use weekly if not daily each one of these for different things um except Tomoe River and it's number five on the list I don't use it every day I usually just use it at the house but Doan, Rodia, Field Notes, and Mormon I literally use almost every day in in some capacity either at home or at work or out and about so I don't know what's going to crack that list I think there's probably some products that will eventually excuse me eventually crack that top five paper products list but right now that's a pretty solid list the top five multi pens that's pretty much a dead solid list too there's the Colito Palette Hot Tech C Colito and Uniball Style Fit are solid at the one and two spot um after that you're getting into um you're making sacrifices for for the next three even though they're really good pens um the ballpoint pen list is real I mean one two and three on the top five ballpoint pen list Jetstream Acroball Vicuna that's I mean that's you might as well just write that in stone there's nothing else even close and then I added the top five rollerball pens Myke I had a couple questions about this people wanted me to add this in um the retro 51 tornado is the top of the charts here and then a kind of a surprise one at number two is the morning glory Mach 3 because it comes in a needle tip and it becomes and it comes in a 0.38 millimeter um it's a really really good

'''Myke Hurley:''' product name just all of that yeah all of that is bad morning glory Mach 3 there is nothing good is that the name of it or is there a company that makes that

'''Brad Dowdy:''' um I think that's the name of it I don't think it's a company yeah horrific it's good pen though it might be but like I

'''Myke Hurley:''' don't know who's doing their branding but somebody needs to help them out and then

'''Brad Dowdy:''' the Uniball Vision Elite the Lamy Tipo which is a really really good that was a shockingly good pen when I reviewed it it also can swap in gel ink refills in that and then the Kaweco AL Sport which is just a super durable rollerball option um then the Kickstarter pins the TI2 Techliner has has jumped to the top spot um it's hard to choose between that and the Render K those the Render K has been my favorite for so long out of the Kickstarter pins that I own um so those are kind of one in 1a but um I'm definitely using the Techliner way way more right now and then uh I I kind of cheated and slotted in the ink the new Keras Customs ink at number five just because it's what I had there before was um I forget the name of the company but it's the bam it was the bamboo high-tech C pen which is really really good pen I just know the the ink I will use way more than that pen than I than I will the um the bamboo high-tech C pen just because I use the high-tech C in

'''Myke Hurley:''' the Render K why do you think it's cheating to add the ink because I haven't

'''Brad Dowdy:''' had that much time with it okay so but I there's nothing I see out of it so far from using it um it's a elite pen it's it's so so well done and then the the top five extreme weather pins um that's an old tried-and-true list that uh that'll probably never change it's so I had it's funny when I first only did it because people asked for it I would have never put that on there but then I had a bunch of people asking when I've a couple years ago whenever I decided to do this fixed page of top five pens I had a bunch of people asking for that um and that's also why it's at the bottom there's not much to that list and I don't see it ever changing I don't know who's gonna come up with anything anything different

'''Myke Hurley:''' so well you should see what I've been working on recently yes I'm gonna I'm about to change the extreme weather pen category I'm mixing things up nice got a kickstarter launching launching real soon for the mic extreme weather pen cool I

'''Brad Dowdy:''' like it yeah cool I'll be your first backer

'''Myke Hurley:''' oh dear oh dear okay so are we good have we finally come to the end of your lists yeah pretty much so excellent I was expecting when you said top five list I thought you were just gonna give me your top five pens I'm pleased we went through all of those but that was more than I expected oh sorry no no don't apologize I'm pleased that we did it because I got to hear a lot I got to to complain at you for a bit I got to hear some interesting opinions I think are gonna form some of mine because Brad I'm not gonna say too much for the moment but I have a big surprise in my top five I like it I have like a real shocker I think that's gonna interest people a lot but I want to talk about our friends over at Backblaze today now Backblaze are a new sponsor to Real AFM so you should be checking them out for sure now let me tell you about Backblaze and how awesome they are Brad you know as well as I do that as pen addicts we're surrounded by paper and notebooks but in 2014 in our digital lives we have digital files they surround us everything that we do these days it seems like going to digital files and these need to be protected because simply as technology becomes more prevalent in our lives a lot of these digital files are becoming our memories like photos and you know documents or little movies and stuff that you take of your family these are all turning into digital files now and digital files are at risk they're at risk from hard drive failures computer crashes a disaster of some kind like some British moron pouring a drink into his MacBook Pro or even just accidental deletion all of this stuff can happen and this is where Backblaze comes into action Backblaze is an online backup solution for all of the data you have on your Mac or PC I'm talking about everything from Word documents photos videos drawings movies and everything else to boot all of the data on your machine will get backed up and they're all made available online via the Backblaze web and mobile apps for Android and iPhone if you have an issue with anything if you maybe just need to grab a single file or you have some sort of disaster that means you need to restore everything from Backblaze you can do this simply and easily there are no add-ons gimmicks or additional charges you can get a free trial at backblaze.com slash pen addict and then it's just five dollars per month per computer for unlimited fast unthrottled online backup so go start your risk-free no credit card required full feature trial right now once more it's backblaze.com slash pen addict couldn't recommend these guys enough if you're not using any sort of online backup solution you should do this look go sign up for the trial and try them out for two reasons one it's going to protect you it's going to be awesome you're going to love it and you'll also be helping support this show this is really important to us to continue creating the pen addict thank you so much to Backblaze for supporting this show and all of RelayFM and whilst I'm talking of ways that you can help us there is one little thing I would like you to do as well we're currently conducting a survey now what this survey is is it it allows us to continue to find advertisers that you're going to enjoy and the best way we can do that is by trying to understand a little bit more about you now this survey is completely anonymous it takes no one in five minutes and the answers that you give will help us find a little bit more demographic information because we know absolutely nothing about you right we know nothing about our listeners because except they're awesome well I mean except for that I mean we tell people all the time I'm saying you know the pen addict listeners and I mean this as well best you guys are the best I don't say that to all the other shows you guys are my favorites but this list this this survey it helps us understand like what you guys like to spend money on so we can maybe go to some different types of companies and that kind of thing right so you'll see it when you go you've seen these types of surveys before now everyone who completes a survey is going to be entered into an ongoing monthly raffle to win a $100 Amazon gift card we're not going to share your email addresses we won't send you anything at all unless you win so please go to podsurvey.com slash pen dash addict that's podsurvey.com slash pen dash addict the links in the show notes please fill out the surveys for us it will really help us out and you'll get a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card very cool top five for me okay so I don't have these written down anywhere and this episode like the the show notes would be insane if we

'''Brad Dowdy:''' tried to put anything in right right

'''Myke Hurley:''' but all of this stuff is googleable okay so my my top five list is way different to how it's been previously you ready should I go from favorite down to five no no you want me to go five up yeah

'''Brad Dowdy:''' back us into it so five up I'm gonna

'''Myke Hurley:''' back us in okay so number five is the rotary lava fountain pen mention us a little bit last week this is a pen that I like to use but like to look at more and just because it's so different to everything I own and it's built like a tank I enjoy that I own it and that really kind of bumps it up in there for me like when I'm getting into the number five on the list I have so many pens that could go in there because nothing at that at that level is like completely stand out blow me away everything is like just really really good so I like to look for something that makes it different

'''Brad Dowdy:''' that makes sense yeah totally totally and I mean heck you can't go wrong with that pen at all that's an awesome pen yeah yeah I love it I yep I have one myself and uh oof yeah that that could be uh that could be in my personal list

'''Myke Hurley:''' too I literally just did a late a last minute change to this list as we're talking okay so number four is the TWSBI 540 I don't own a 580 and I mean I've spoken in the past about some quality issues that I've had with with the 540 line especially um but I love them I think that they're fantastic they are built well until they break which is a really interesting thing to say and I hope that it kind of comes across these things are built really well but they fail at times like they feel solid but then something will crack or something will snap but the I've had absolutely no problems and I've heard so many accounts of people who contact TWSBI and they just send them replacement parts like I've had that they sent me replacement parts for free they sent me a cap for my 540 ROC edition I didn't even know that they would be able to do it and they sent me it yeah this is before they read they restocked the item um I'm I love it I mean they're great I mean all TWSBI pens are great I only have the 540 I don't have a 580 that's

'''Brad Dowdy:''' on my list yep yeah it's a great pen now