Editing The Pen Addict 128/transcript (section)

== Diamine Inks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Best for your wallet, too. That's a good point. Yeah. Not best for my wallet is the new Diamine 150th Anniversary Inks, which we were asked early on in the chat room if we were going to talk about today, and I said, absolutely, we are.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, a few people sent us these.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Thomas Hall sent me the link primarily to show me the Diamine. Is it Diamine or Diamine, Michael? It's a British company, so you're going to have to find that out for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You're in charge of all things British. I would say Diamine, so we're going to go with that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So you need to go over to the factory and get some early samples of these, okay?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. I didn't know they were British, so I'll go through that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yes, they are. So you're in charge of that. But this blue-black looks awesome. There's eight ink colors in this really neat triangular bottle where they can all kind of fit together and form a large circle if you buy all eight. But I haven't been buying too many inks recently because I'm pretty happy with what I got, but I am all over this blue-black. And surprisingly, the red in this, at least from the pictures that I can see on the Fountain Pen Network, and we'll have this link in the show notes. The Carnival. Yeah. The Carnival looks amazing. Looks like a great color, yeah. It's so bright. I like a really bright red, not like a brick or bloody type red. I like just reds that really pop off the page. And this actually has me, my interest pinked to get a red ink. But I am all over this blue-black whenever they come out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're coming out later in November. I don't know when vendors will start carrying them. But Diamine has pretty much every company that we talk about and shop at carries Diamine inks. So I would look for them, hopefully before the end of the year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I might get this blue-black, because it's kind of like the color we use for the Relay logo.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's quite similar, isn't it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's very similar. It looks like it's got good shading, good color. And yeah, I'm interested to see what the cost is. Diamine always has good prices, so I expect they'll be fairly priced.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't understand terracotta. Like, I don't get that as a color. Yeah, it's like a... It's not a very good-looking color.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So do you know what terracotta is?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's like what you use to make pots.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so... I don't know. It's that muddy, orangish-brown. I mean, yeah, that's not a color I would ever use. And, you know, I don't think the Safari is something I would ever use either. But, you know, part of the whole range of inks, I guess it looks okay. Some people will buy the whole set. What is it? Six inks? I said eight. It's six inks. One, two, three, four, five, six. Oh, seven, eight. I was right the first time. Eight inks. So, yeah. Anyway, check that out if you want to see some new inks coming out. Because I will be very interested in these. And I will definitely pick up at least two of them. And surprisingly, the red one really looks cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So Thomas cost me some more money this week. And this is something I've been, I've asked him about for a couple of years now. He always, whenever he writes me a letter or sends me pens in the mail, he always, you know, writes a note. And he signs it. And then he stamps it with his chop. It's, you know, like a little seal. Like a stamp with his name. He did this whole post on what a chop is, why it's important to him, how it's part of his heritage and lineage. You know, that his mom got it for him. And there's this whole great story in this blog post. And, you know, well, that's linked in the show notes too. So you can go read about what it is and why it's important. I've always told him I wanted one. And I just kept forgetting to, like, really research it and get into it and go buy one. Then he put in the link to a good place to go buy one. And I've bought one. So we'll do a further report on this later once I get mine in.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I'm interested because I wonder what yours is going to look like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so it should be cool. And I've been wanting this for a long time. So I will let you know once that happens. And they ship pretty quick, so I might even have it by next week. But I've went ahead and bought it, and it's on the way. So I'm anxious to get that in, and we'll talk about it more maybe next week or the week after.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I already have a thousand questions. Can I show you one really quickly? Sure. Is it Western that you've gone for?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Okay. No. No? What do you mean Western? Well, like Western style or like traditional, like Far Eastern style? Yeah. No, I've gone for the Far Eastern style.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, so now I have like 100 more questions. Yeah. Okay, I'll wait for that. I'm very intrigued about that, actually.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yep. So we'll save those questions for a later date.