Editing The Pen Addict 36/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So leading straight in from what you just said, I want to try more ink. And this is because I like fountain pens.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm actually going to group these two together because I have two here, two resolutions here. I want to find more fountain pens. The Twisby being one. Our good friend. Oh, dear.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Stuart Haseley.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's it. Stuart. He said to me just before the show that he was going to pay me for every mention of his name today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That is not why. Stuart Haseley. Stuart Haseley. Hey, we got a lot of ink to buy. Stuart Haseley. Stuart Haseley.

'''Myke Hurley:''' How much is that? We said we'd include his review, right, of the Diamond Twisby.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Let's hold off on that because he did the review. I read it. I loved it. Let's save that for another episode.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm going to put it in the show notes anyway, though. Okay. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Link to the review. But we want to elaborate on that a little bit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Because I have. Yeah. I want to. I still need to get one. But yeah. Reading his review has made me sure that I really do want to buy one. So I am going to get one. So yeah. That's. Let's say that's a pen I want to try.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I want to. Let's say. Yeah. Get into more fountain pens. Find more new fountain pens that I've not come across before. I want to find those two. That. I think that would be quite cool. And I also want to try more ink. You know. I feel that these two things go hand in hand. So you know. I'd like to try out. Some of these inks that we've just mentioned here. I have. You mentioned the J Herbin. I have some J Herbin ink cartridges. That I got with a recent purchase. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. So I want to try some of those out. And just. Find better ways to deal with that as well. Because. You know. Every time you want to try out a new ink. You've got to clean everything out. You know. Right. So. I want to just find new ways to. To get. Maybe people want to contact me and tell me. You know. I'm sure everyone's going to say. No. Sorry Myke. You just have to wash the thing out every time. Which is. You know. It's frustrating. But there might be better. Better ways of doing it. I don't know. There might be little tips. People have got like about. An amount of ink to maybe put in a converter. Instead of using cartridges. And all that sort of stuff. So. As. As I got. As I think we've both got more involved. This year. With the actual pens themselves. Well. I know I have. You've always been this involved. I now want to get into what goes in them as well. And finding some real great ones there. I'm thinking about maybe getting another. A Lamy. Just. Do they do any higher end bodies of the Safari? Or should I just look at a different Lamy. Because we just expect the nibs to be similar.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well. The. The AL Sport is a direct relative of the Safari. It's the same design. But it's made up with an aluminum body. So. But it looks exactly the same. Except it's shinier. Aluminum. And they're about $10 more. So they're in the same. The same family. Outside of that. They don't make a higher end Safari.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What one was that? Sorry. The.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The AL Star. Excuse me. I said AL Sport. I'm not Cuecos. It's AL Star.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. They look just like them. Yeah. So.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's the. That's the base upgrade. Of the Safari. Then after that. You're getting into their other lines.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. But I would expect. Similar quality. So yeah. I want to try some of those out. I want to try more inks out. I also want to use more notebooks. I mentioned I've got notebooks everywhere. I feel like I could use them more than I do. Especially because I want to this year. Get my first Field Notes Colors subscription. So if I'm going to do that. I'm only going to start doing that when I start using notebooks more. And I feel that I could use them a lot more than I do. So once I force myself into doing that. As a little reward for doing absolutely nothing of value. But just to reward myself. I will get a Field Notes Colors subscription.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. That's good to have a goal.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Indeed. Indeed. So there you go.