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== Pen preferences and sentimental choices ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, last little mini topic here, Myke. I wanted to put you on the spot with a little game that my friend Rachel from Rachel's Reflections put out on the stationery internet and I answered a little bit in this week's Panatic Members newsletter where the concept is to take a brand that you have a decent amount of pens in, you know, some of the bigger brands, Pilot, Sailor, you know, Kaweco, Lamy, whatever, and you can only keep one of those pens out of your collection. So the ones I talked about, I did Pilot and I ended up on my Pilot Custom Heritage 9, 9, 12 with the PO nib and the Macchie artwork and then I did Sailor, which I ended up with the the Mekon Mini, the little orange tangerine from Bungu Box, which has a stack nib on it and then I did Edison, which I did the Edison Beaumont Palomino Waltz at Sunset Baltimore Limited ! So all these, like I tried to pick some that would be really difficult for me, right, to like choose if I could only have one, like the Pilots, I probably had 15 different pens in my collection that I really, really like from Pilot and to pick one is like pretty crazy. so I decided to ask you what you might pick and I threw a couple brands out there, Sailor being one, that I knew you had a pretty sizable amount of Sailor, so what did you think about this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I struggled because I was like, do I go sentimental and go with like the orange pro gear or just pro gear in general, even though I think I prefer from a writing experience in 1911, and so it's going backwards and forwards, like no, I think I'll go King of Pen, but I wrote pro gear King of Pen down in a document, but I'm actually, I'm not sure, it's definitely King of Pen, but I'm trying to think between pro gear and 1911 King of Pen, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so which model, so the 1911 you have the orange, yeah, what else?

'''Myke Hurley:''' For in, I only have a, the 1911 pro gear King of Pen, okay, so the 1911 King of Pen, and I have one pro gear King of Pen as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The pro gear, you also have a Ruchid, right? Yeah,

'''Myke Hurley:''' that one, I'm taking that out of the conversation though, because that's like, that was custom done, right? See,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I included that stuff, I included that stuff. So both my pilot, my pilot 912 has external artwork on it, like, maki-e artwork done after market, and like, it's nowhere near the most expensive pilot that I have, and my sailor choice is nowhere near the most expensive sailor that I had, but they were like the most sentimental and kind of like, seem like the one. Yeah,

'''Myke Hurley:''' it makes it easier then. I mean, so I would say, I think in general, I prefer the 1911 shape to the pro gear and King of Pen, but I would choose my Jonathan Brooks custom Arushi pro gear King of Pen for my sailor, and then this is made my, I also wanted to do platinum, because I have a few platinums now, and this makes this one even easier for me. So I have the 3776 Galaxy Starlight, this was the pen where the nib broke on the day that I bought it, and that took months to replace. Then I chipped it, so there's a chip in the cap. This is like a lacquer full of Arushi, like it's, they don't make this pen anymore, which I think is a tragedy, like this is for my, it's just one of the most beautiful pens I have, not just platinums. But now I also have the stacked nib from CY in this one too. Oh, okay. So like, this pen is just like, if there was a fire, this is a pen, this is one of the pens I'd go for, because this one is so special to me now, because we've been through so much together, and I bought it as like a, I bought it one year for like a relay anniversary gift. I think I bought it around the fifth anniversary, like that was, that was what I bought this pen for, yeah, because I remember we were trying to get it dealt with during COVID. Gotcha. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It just like six months later or whatever.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's interesting. So we kind of did the same thing when I chose my pilot, I picked the pen that had the most stories attached to it, right? It's almost like a most, it's like almost like the most sentimental type of thing, which that's pretty interesting that we both kind of went down that path for this thing. so cool. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to,

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, that's what they're, that's what it's about, right? They draw the attachment to them. I'm trying a lot more in my life and I actually think I have a natural inclination towards this, but I'm trying a lot more in my life to be aware of things being damaged and the importance. Like, you know, you're familiar with wabi-sabi. Sure. So it's a, it's a Japanese phrase, like it's a term that I love, which essentially just means that like the wear and tear of an item and it's, and it's like imperfections and what makes it perfect. And I've definitely tried subscribing to that more and more in my life because I think that these things, they're made to be used and so they should be used and therefore they should show the effects of that use. like, you know, I bought a nice watch and then the next day banged it against a door frame and put a tiny scratch in the case and it's like, well, that's part of the story of this watch now and how it fits into my life and, and like, I believe that these, you, these, these items that we care about, I don't believe in just collecting them. Like, I want to own them and I want to use them and that, that use should show in the product over time and it adds to its beauty and its story. So the fact that my select 776 has a big chip in the side of the cap is actually part of its story.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. I could not agree more.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Should we finish out with an RSTPA today?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Let's do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. This one comes from Kay who says your mission cheap and cheerful. I want to be cheered up. I'm open to anything in the stationery realm of a smallish budget. Think cheerful and all whimsical.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I love this question. It's, it's pretty hard as like to put that on someone else is like, like I'm going to pick something for you. Am I going to pick something for me? It's like trying to answer it. It was like, ah, I'm stressing out over it. I know there's, there's a couple of things that jumped immediately to mind. Um, one is the platinum preppy, but not any platinum preppy. They do this limited edition style called the WA, W-A, where they take the same preppy barrels, make them in fun, translucent colors and have these great different patterns on there. And I think there's a new batch coming out here pretty soon. Uh, this year, they started this a few years ago and I think they've been very successful and you can find like a different pattern that's coming to you. So like last time was like a, like a lot of like art style patterns. And I think the next one coming out is, has some more little animal patterns on there and things like that. So that's a really cool one from a fountain pen. Um, I would also choose like a multi pen. Like I think multi pens are endlessly fun and you can get, uh, some really fun colors like the jet stream three color, um, which is like a black ballpoint, a red ballpoint and a pencil and some cool barrel colors for like six 50. Right? Like, so the, the, um, the preppy, I think they're around like $8 or something like that. Yeah. Something like that. And the, um, multi pen, the uni jet stream multi pen is about six bucks, six 50. And it's a really good pen for that price. And you get like a three in one, you get a pencil included in there. And then one of my most favorite stationery items, Myke, which I have gone through so many packs of these. I use, uh, sticky note flags, but only funny ones. So I found like a sushi one before. Um, I just finished, um, this, um, Shiba dog one. I've used like, I don't know how many sticky notes are in here, like 60. And I've like completed the whole thing. And now I have a ninja one that I'm getting ready to open up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What are you using them for?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I use them a lot for giveaways and write people's names on them. Right. So that's a little, and then every now and then I'll use it as a bookmark and a notebook, but I'm really using it just to tag other things. And I go through a ton of these and they're the most fun. There's some of the most fun stationery I have. They literally sit on my desk within arm's reach at all time. So that's like three different products you can get for like under 20 bucks there and just have endless amount of fun. But I can't recommend these, um, these sticky note flags highly enough, right? Just because of the, the character artwork on there is really, really great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. If you would like to send in a question for your own for us to answer on a future episode, just go to pen addict feedback.com. You can also send in your follow up there too. If you want to find Brad online, go to pen addict.com spoke design.com. Brad is at pen addict and you can find him on twitch.tv slash pen addict as well. Uh, you can find me. I'm at I Myke. I am Y K E. And you can find my products at cortex brand.com. Thank you to pen chalet and the canalea pen co for the support of this week's episode. But most of all, as always, thank you for listening until next time. Say goodbye, Brad. Bye, Brad.

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