Editing The Pen Addict 215/transcript (section)

== Ogami Stone Notebooks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' The Ogami stone notebook. Yeah. Oh my God. Do you remember that thing? It's creepy. It's literally creepy to use a stone paper notebook. I thought this was a great idea when it happened. And then the more it became a thing and the more I was testing them out and reviewing them, the more it kind of gives me like the shivers when I use it. It's that creepy. I have never come close to. I. Those are ones that I reviewed and they're filed away like in the closet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It gives me shivers to think about that notebook. So. It does. This is in episode 89. I've put it in the show notes. We tried out this notebook and it's made of stone. The paper is made of stone. And for a reason I will never understand. When I used it, it made me feel ill.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's like a queasy feeling. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't know why, but it made me feel unwell.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. We just talked about this. Like I mentioned it last week or the week before in like products that we hated and that was mine. It's it's creepy. It's a creepy, creepy product.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I love this. This is from your review. Stone paper has become all the rage across the blogosphere, even spawning a Kickstarter project. It's a great idea in principle. A paper made from a natural byproduct of water and limestone that is tear resistant, waterproof and fully recyclable. It is the ultimate paper, right? Wrong.

'''Myke Hurley:''' A wrong is just its own paragraph. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It is so wrong. That's terrible. That's pretty much the full review of any stone notebook paper. It's just wrong. It's it's. I was going to say it's unnatural, but it's actually very natural.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They sent them to us, didn't they? Like they found them in a store. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I think I'd already had some at the time, too. And I got some more.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're so cool looking. I just I had to like warn people off of it because it's not good. All right. This is from Flipper says, I'm sure it's been done and it has. But I want to reiterate a couple of things. Worst experience with a relatively expensive pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So you go with yours. I actually didn't think about this and mine's a little bit different.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, mine is. I think if you listen to the show recently, you've heard it, which was when I tried the Montblanc M at the Atlanta Pen Show. And it was just so meh, which was so disappointing because it's one of the most beautiful pen designs I've ever seen. But it was just so underwhelming. There wasn't really anything wrong with it, but there was absolutely nothing right with it. So, yeah, I think that that probably that probably cinches it for me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I don't think that would go down for me as like a worst ever thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It was the one that jumped to mind immediately for me, you know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Once you put it down, I could totally see that. Mine is actually not even a relatively expensive pen. It's a flat out expensive pen. Then the Pelican M1000. Fortunately, thankfully, I didn't have to pay my own money for it because I would have like had to do something to recoup that and like sell it. It's it was a really, really bad experience. And it's all because the nib is so large and so soft. I can't write how I would normally write with that pen. I actually hated that pen. And that's a very expensive pen. And I gave it away like the next week on the blog or maybe even the next day after the review.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What about the largeness of the nib makes it a problem? Because aren't you don't you have that exact thing with your king of pen monster?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. So it's the softness of the gold and how Pelican manufactures their nibs. So when you have something that size with a material that soft, there's going to be a lot of flex and a lot of movement in it. And the way Pelican that's how Pelican manufactures their nibs. Even on when I bought my 405, the extra fine nib was like that, but it was workable to where I could get it made into something else. This nib was so big and flexy, like I would feel uncomfortable having it modified into something that I wouldn't enjoy writing with it because I don't think it would work because of the softness properties.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I just picked up my M200 and it's got like a medium gold nib and it's effectively a broad. It is super, super flexy, which is why I like it. But this is much smaller in profile. So considering I have had a penchant for broad pens in the past, I actually quite like, I know that's pretty cool, right? I actually quite like this pen, but I can imagine if it was two times the size, it might feel like I'm writing with a piece of elastic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, and you were relating it to my king of pens. So the way Sailor manufactures their nibs, they're much firmer just by default. And I don't know if it's the coating or the plating on the nib itself or just the complete finishing. Like there's, when I write with the Pelican, there's almost no tine spread and it's a medium. And the Pelican I had was a medium as well. And the tines just like goes wide apart. Like when you write with it and it's just a gusher and I don't like it. But so that was a really, really bad experience from a very, very expensive pen that I would never recommend to anyone.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What sort of money would that set you back? 7, 800. That's very expensive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So I think you can get them for like around five if you're like really watching the market because they do come up and down sometimes. You can, there's some deals to be had.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's just a pen I wouldn't recommend to purchase blindly. It may be perfect. It's perfect for a lot of people, right? It's just one of those that you have to try ahead of time. Just like I would never recommend a vanishing point unless someone tries it first, right? There's just things about certain pens you need to try before you buy. And that's one of them. And it really, really did not work for me. So this next question is interesting. And I actually didn't put an answer down or I still don't have an answer for it because I almost want to dedicate like a whole segment on the podcast for it. So I need to think about it. Michael asks, what are your favorite new releases in the first half of 2016? You came up with a good answer. That's probably going to be your answer for every half of every year from now until the future. Has always been. And has always been. And it's the new Retro 51 designs. I can't argue with that. So what do you like so much? What's been your favorite? If you had to pick one, you've probably, how many of you bought this year? Probably three or four, if not more than that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, I only have one of them so far. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So what's your favorite this year so far?