Editing The Pen Addict 265/transcript (section)

== Pencil Question ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So let's hit some ass TPA. And this first one is from those pencil guys, Myke, our good buddy, our good buddy, Andy Wellfleet, who I love. And you apparently, you apparently hate. So we're going to, we're going to start a battle here, but I love Andy, Tim and Johnny. I think they're amazing guys. No,

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love them. I just hate everything I stand for,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' See, I'm pretty much one of them. So I, I, I'm definitely on board the pencil train. So Andy has this question. I remember him talking about this before. He's either talked about it on the erasable show or he's asked me and he's never gotten a real good answer. So he says, Hey gents, I have a rather involved question for an ass TPA. So I'm going to read this note. He put on Twitter. It says maybe 10 years ago, I was obsessed obsessed with the Uniball vision roller balls in evergreen. It was a deep, vibrant green and was included in box dozens with blue, black, and red pins of the same model. Since then, I can't find evergreen, but just regular green. It's crap compared to evergreen, thinner and bluer. Amazon claims to sell every evergreen. But my, when my friend and yours, Myke Hagan, he is a Mr. Ledfast bought a box. It was just regular green. Do you know the story on this? Any idea of where I can buy evergreen Uniball visions nowadays? I'll take my questions off the air. I love this question. And I remember this from before. And I don't know where the evergreen model came from originally. I do know and agree that the vision green that they sell is absolutely tragic. It's one of the worst colors I've ever seen. And this is from a company who does color pigments really well. Their regular green is terrible. Like I can't, it's unusable. It's like water green. It's terrible. So I don't know where evergreen comes from. The only thing I can think of is if they made it in some of their rainbow packs, because they used to make visions and purples, oranges, pinks, and maybe the evergreen was the green that was part of those variety packs, but it was never sold as the individual green. So I haven't seen one for sale. I would know where you could find one. A lot of people have been trying to help Andy to try to find the closest green. I think you would like the Zebra Saraciclip Viridian Green. I think it's really, really close to evergreen. It comes in 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, and 0.7. It's my favorite green gel. It's dark like the evergreen, but not too dark. It has a little bit of brightness. It doesn't look like anything like a basic green color. You can tell there's something different with it. It's called Viridian Green. It's amazing. That's where I would go, Andy. I don't know that you're going to find the vision in evergreen. And if I ever do run across it, I'll let you know. But I, I think that one's a lost cause. And they should be embarrassed with their regular greens, to be honest, and rollerballs. It's one of the worst colors I've ever seen. It's unusable. So this is a, this is a real issue. I, with Andy, he, he loves that color and he can't get it anymore. So, um, we'll try to find him something good, but check out the zebra Saracic clip of Viridian green. I think you might like that one. It's certainly worth a try as long as gel is okay, because the visions of rollerball ink, um, that's going to be harder to find a color to match evergreen in a liquid ink, as opposed to a gel ink gel ink. You'll get a lot closer, I believe. So if anyone comes up with any evergreen uniball visions, let me know, but, um, beware because like, uh, Michael Hagan found out just because they say evergreen, doesn't necessarily mean that they are.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's something quite funny about that. There's an irony in, I think, that the evergreen isn't really evergreen after all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's not. I see what you did there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, there's something kind of funny about that. I feel like they're playing tricks on everybody.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, they are, they are. And, uh, this is a dirty evil trick, Myke. I don't like it. Don't play with our ink colors.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh-oh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You have enraged the dowdy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. The real nib creep wants to know, are the nibs on the platinum 3776 close to Nakaya's? I'm considering 3776 and medium and would decide on medium or fine for the Nakaya based on that. I think they're very close. It's a high correlation there. I mean, like really, really highly correlated in the way the platinum nibs feel to the Nakaya nibs. Um, I don't know what to say more than that, other than in a blind test, I could maybe tell, but I'm not sure that I could. They're that close. So basically,

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think it would be fair to say that if you had a strong opinion, whatever that opinion might be about the platinum 3776 nibs, it will probably carry over to Nakaya's, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. I would make, I think making a decision off the platinum nib to match the Nakaya nib would be a fair thing to do. You'd be pretty safe at that point.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. That is an educated guess. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So, all right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Lerlini wants to know, vintage style pens, have you used an Estherbrook diplis pen? And I didn't click this link before because I don't know what this is. Okay. So it's essentially a dip pen with Edison's screw in nibs. So it does hold a little bit of ink. I've never used this exact pen. I'm sitting here reading this because...