Editing The Pen Addict 137/transcript (section)

== Show Notes Topic ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I, I think you've got it and yeah, you, you've got it good. So this topic, so out of the two topics you chose, one I had written down to add into the show notes, but this first one that we're going to cover, I think is a perfect topic and it's rediscovering an old pen. So tell the, I know where the, the story originates from and probably a lot of the listeners do, but why don't you give us the quick background on, on why this came up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So in case you didn't know, I lost the pen recently.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. So you still have it, you still haven't found it, right? No,

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't know where it is. Okay. I don't really want to talk about it, but I lost the pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I needed to replace the pen. Like this is the pen that I keep next to me all the time to keep, to write down little show notes stuff with, you know, as in like, oh, need to pull out this part here or we had an audio issue here. So I keep little notes about it with pen and paper because it's the easiest way for me to grab it and sometimes I can be writing the notes whilst I'm talking and reading, right? Because it's just like a different part of my brain doing that bit. So I just was thinking what should I go with and I looked in my lovely do-deck arrangements I have here around me, decided that I didn't want to use a Retro 51 because it brought back too many memories about the lost pen for the time being so I figured I would try something else. So I picked up my Twisby 540 ROC because it's one of the most beautiful pens that I own. Love, just love, love the look of this pen. I love that all the different colours and it's just a real, a real beauty and it's fantastic that you can buy this again I think.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I've fallen back in love with it again which is, which is really interesting. So I had forgotten how nice it was to write with. I think I have a fine nib in this one so that's different for me, you know, for like, for fountain pens. I have mediums and fines and broads but I don't have a lot of fines and I really like it. I like that by now they actually have changed it. It's no longer the 540 ROC it's the 580 USA which I still want to get because that USA cap, man, that is super cool and I want one of those. Yep. See now I'm like I want two Twisbees now so it's like hmm, interesting. And what isn't helping is the fact that I've fallen back in love with this Twisbee again. I mean, I'd had a brief time there where I didn't want to, where I was kind of annoyed at Twisbee Sure. because I had some problems and the piston filling mechanism is really not ideal because these pens, they get really jammed up and I know they give you the grease for it but sometimes it's too late you know? Yeah. And I've had them like I had you know, I was doing some work on my girlfriend's Twisbee the other day and like basically the piece is like popped off on the inside so you have to try and be really careful when you're using it and you don't you know, that happens when it happens and sometimes you don't know it's going to happen until it happens but so I need to use the grease that it comes with to do that with but it's it's not ideal but I've fallen back in love with this pen I love the build quality I love the way it looks like the build quality I am the way it's finished you know, the way it feels in the hand I love the weight of it it's just interesting enough the nib is fantastic so it's a pen that I haven't used for a while and it's come back into solid rotation so do you do this? Do you kind of like you use a pen for a while you fall out of love of it or you move on and then you come back to it like you'd forgotten how incredible it was?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is absolutely a thing absolutely for sure I was trying I can think of a few that I that I go back and forth with like the pilot vanishing point for me falls into this category it's an all or nothing use for me when I use it I absolutely love every second with it it's great and every time I ink it up and if I haven't been using it in a while I'll remember how much I love this pen and why I love this pen so much and then you know just sometimes going through the rotation of pens you know cleaning them out and you know and getting in some new pens into the rotation and then I may not use it for a few months and then just all of a sudden it'll hit me like oh I haven't used my vanishing point and then I'll ink it up and start writing with it and it's almost like a relief you know it's like oh yeah this is exactly what I remember this being like and it's this is why this pen's so great and yeah this happens so I'd say the vanishing point for me is kind of that pen because I don't have it inked up all the time but when I do re-ink one up I realize that how much I've missed it so that's a really good one besides that one trying to think there's that's probably the primary one but to me this happens with inks for me too because I have so many inks and I know you're not you don't have the the ink collection that I do what'd you put in your Twisby by the way

'''Myke Hurley:''' I put Irojizuku Konpeki in here which is the blue because it's it matches the color of the pen so nicely

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah that's great so I have my Nakaya portable which is the first one I bought and probably my favorite and I keep I have all these fancy inks right I've got all these those Roshizukus and all these Ackermans and all these Sailor Limited Editions and just you know just stock full of all kinds of rare unique beautiful inks I went back to Pilot Blue Black in my Nakaya and I'm so happy you know it's such a good ink that I forget about you know it's one of the cheapest well cheap's the wrong word inexpensive inks that I own but it performs so well it behaves so well it's really pretty and you know I I had Sailor Yamadori which is a nice green it kind of matched my Nakaya you know I like I sometimes like to match my ink colors to my pens you know it's just kind of a overall feel type of thing and I got tired of that ink so I flushed it out and I was like what am I going to put in this and it just you know dawned on me Pilot Blue Black and I hadn't used that for months and months and months in any pen around at all and it's almost it's like the perfect ink for that pen and it's one of the most inexpensive you know non-fancy inks I own but it is so good and that's the kind of realization I had like this rediscovering thing so apparently I like Pilot a lot when I rediscover things I go back to the Pilots one of the pens I miss but it's not really a rediscovering is my Pilot Custom Heritage 912 with the PO nib that one I always miss but I'm always aware that that one's there that one never goes out of the mindset like maybe your TWSBI goes out of the mindset like do I even own this pen is it in my thought process or like the vanishing point with me sometimes it just doesn't exist you know because I'm using six or eight other pens and that doesn't exist the PO nib actually always exists but I don't use it all the time but when I ink it back up I always love it so those are mine and I think this is a really good thing so I'd be interested to see if the listeners had any other pens that they haven't used for like a year or two maybe not even that long maybe six months that they go back to and TWSBI is one of those pens too it's just always a good writing experience when I use it so so yeah I thought that was super good Michael way to go by you

'''Myke Hurley:''' so I was just I've just been saved money yeah because because I can't find the 580 orange AL in stock in any UK stockists yeah