Editing The Pen Addict 186/transcript (section)

== Lamy Macrelon ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Before we do this. Before we do this. We have some. Late breaking follow up. Oh. Late breaking. From Laurie in the chat room. Mm-hmm. That. Lamy. As part of. An auction. Mm-hmm. Once the. Johnny Ive Mark Newsom. Auction. I remember this. Produced a red. Lamy 2000.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. So they did a whole set. I remember this. We talked about this on the show. And I'd forgotten about it. And. I can't even remember how much. Does this say how much they went for in this? Oh. It was over $100,000. I think. Yeah. It was a crap ton. So good. That's good. Oh.

'''Myke Hurley:''' $31,250. It went for.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So it's red. Macrelon. In the finish. That's great. That. That bodes well. For what we might see. I believe.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. Yes. So that. There's. Perfect. There is the. The evidence we were looking for. That it's possible to color. Macrelon. They have done it. I hope we see something like this. I would actually just like to buy that red one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But you know. They're never going to make that. Just run over to Johnny and Mark's house. Aren't they right around the corner? Something like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't know if they're talking to me anymore. Okay. Okay. Because I was mean about their pencil.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thank you, Laurie. That's perfect. I forgot all about these. And colored macaron does exist.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yay. There was also. Whilst we're on this topic. I wanted to just mention. A few people have mentioned this to me. And have asked questions. Actually. Apple did a 60 minutes show. Yeah. And. This. Yeah. It was a big in-depth look at Apple. And one of the scenes showed Johnny Ive using a fountain pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, really?

'''Myke Hurley:''' And the pen that he is using is the Mark Newsom designed Hermes pen. Okay. Have you seen this one? We have seen this before.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. We've linked it in the show notes. What it is is a Pilot Decimo internal with a new build around the outside for Hermes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And it's got one flat edge and it twists in the middle to retract either a ballpoint or a fountain pen depending on which one you'd like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So the internals are the Pilot internals. Yeah. It's a beautiful pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It is. I really, really want one. I really want one. And a few people brought this up when I wrote about the Apple Pencil saying that not only did Newsom put a cap on the Mont Blanc, he also built a fountain pen with a flat edge. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. I really. Yeah. I wanted to just mention it because a couple people brought it up and I don't know if everybody knows that this exists. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They should go. If not, they should. We'll link it in the show notes. It's a stunner. This one is like, you know, if I ever came across one and could get it for a deal, you know, I would consider it just because it looks really, really good. It looks better than the Mont Blanc for sure, but it's twice as much.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's really super expensive. I'm going to. Yeah. I'm trying to find it on MS. It's $1,670.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, so it's three times as much, but it's essentially the internals and the nib are the Pilot Decimo slash vanishing point. But it's the twist, which is the Decimo. I hope I have that name right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Because I've seen a picture of it. I think it might have. I'll see if I can find it for the show notes. I think it might have been on Hodinkee where they actually show the internal and it is the vanishing point internal. Right. But they've customized it in some way to make it a twist mechanism.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Well, it's not. They make one for that Decimo. It's a twist retract instead of a click. Yeah. So no new design on the mechanism. Just a completely new external barrel to wrap around it, if you will. Right. And better than just about anything. It looks great. All right. So blog of the week. Inksmudge.net. If you all haven't seen this awesome follower, Ivan Shirtness. I hope I pronounced that right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He's been doing a bunch of field note stuff here recently and send me the links. And I love his style and the way he writes. And he just did a post about he used 50 field notes this year. And it's cool to see the stack. And what's neat about it, he uses all the same craft version. Right. He like is not into the colors thing for like his daily use stuff. But I thought it was cool to see. And he's going to go through some of that and expand on that a little bit more coming up soon. So I wanted to make sure to link that in the show notes. And it's kind of new. It's kind of a new blog. So make sure you add that to your feed readers or however you consume new content. And, you know, he dropped in a congratulations to me for making the leap. And I appreciate that too. And yeah, just take a look at the blog and add it to your feed reader.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's interesting to me to use so many field notes and just use craft.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. No, I think it's cool. I think it's great. It's I mean, you know, Myke, people sometimes will choose one pen and one ink and only use that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Most people are crazy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know.