Editing The Pen Addict 729/transcript (section)

== Namisu Gravity ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. So, I put a note in the show notes. This came up on my desk, across my desk, like, a week or so ago. The Namisu Gravity Titanium Pen. By name, sounds great, right? Yeah. Sounds, oh, cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We like Namisu here. I saw the link. And I was like, I know what this is going to be. That was my thought. I know this. I know what this is going to be.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yeah. And was it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely not. I could not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There is no world. There is no amount of guesses in which this is the pen I thought I was going to see.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I literally went, huh, is it April Fool's?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It looks like an April Fool's joke. The imagery looks wrong.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, for those who don't have a visual, we'll have a link in the show notes. It's basically a take on a pen style that has existed in the past. I think it was kind of popular in the 90s. Both Platinum and Tombow made these small, roundish. Tombow called it the egg. It looks like an egg. A fountain pen. So, if you've been in the fountain pen game for a long time, you've probably run across. I've run across the Platinum Glamour more than I see the Tombow egg. But it's the same concept. It's a very short, maybe like a two inch in length, but very round, almost ball-like. But it really is egg-shaped. And Nemisu, for some reason, has modernized this concept, honestly, in a pretty sick way. They nailed this. Like, this looks amazing. Like, I love everything about this, and I will never use this product, right? This is kind of like one of my things I like. I'll say that. I hate this pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I hate it. I don't like anything about this. And I don't know why they've done it. Because they just made a really nice-looking pocket pen, right? So, why have they done this?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I love it. I will never use this pen. Like, this goes against everything I enjoy about holding a pen, right? Like, the way they feel, the shape, and the design.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, so they just made the Ixion pocket, which is great, right? It's like, that is what I expect them to make. I don't, I cannot fathom why they have made this product. It doesn't make any sense to me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I don't know. I'm in. I'm in. Go for it. I can't. I can't. This is great. I just can't.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I can't wait to not buy it, but to see someone else's. It looks amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Is it like an eyedropper?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I doubt it. It's probably short international cartridges. I didn't look at the product page, but they don't have a picture on the Instagram of the thing. Oh, no.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It holds up to six mils of ink in eyedropper mode. It says it in the Instagram caption. It's the only reason to use this pen. If you're just putting a regular cartridge in it, what is the point?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know? I guess. But I got to see. So when you have metal pens, you got to make some decisions on the interior.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would like to see that. I'm not saying wherever it works or not, but I'm saying that is how they're advertising it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. In eyedropper mode. So that means it can't. So it has a mode. If they're saying mode, they're not saying it's an eyedropper. It's saying you can't eyedropper, which means it probably fits short international cartridges. Do they have a nib picture? Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you buy this pen and use a cartridge in it, I need to have a conversation with you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can't imagine this is comfortable to hold. Like, I struggle sometimes. I love, I love the Uniball 1P. Like, it's my favorite pen in a long time. I love this pen. But sometimes I hold it and I'm like, you're a chunky. Like, you're not, sometimes it can be like weird to hold. This thing, it looks like you're holding like a bar of soap or something. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's at the limit. The 1P is at the limit. This is well over the limit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And like, I really wonder like what it feels like in people's hands. Because you're not posting this, right? Like, there's no posting. There's not an option, yeah. And it's like, you kind of can't tell, I think, from the scale. But it looks really small. I, this pen, man, I, look, respect that you made it. You know? Like, you've done it. Like, congratulations to you. But I can't, I can't get on board with this one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I just found, so in the, go to their main Instagram link, it has the link to the Kickstarter. You have to scroll all the way. Oh, this is a Kickstarter? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have to scroll like three quarters of the pen. I mean, you know what?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's way funded. So who am I? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who am I to say, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So you have to scroll three quarters of the page down to actually see them holding the pen in writing position. And it actively looks terrible. That's a pretty bad image. That's why it's hidden so far at the bottom. But it'll, yeah. There's a reason why it's buried. Oh, God.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That doesn't, doesn't look right to me. Oh, it's a rollerball too?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, there's a standard.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Look, I gotta say, I think, I just don't think you could get purchase on this pen. Like, I just, I just not sure you could grip it in the way that you want to, you know? Like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I scrolled further down. And it does fit in a short international and the short international converter.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, there's just, there's some videos of people. It's like, something positive looks like they're kind of gripping it like it's a dry erase marker.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's an egg, Myke. It's like you're literally holding an egg. Yeah. Trying to write. Just go grab an egg out the fridge.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I'm very happy it is for the hundreds of people that are backed in. I'm pleased that people want this. Because.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, wait. It's convertible. So, the grip. So, the rollerball and fountain pen is the same pen. It's just a, it swaps the tip, if you will. Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, I'm not surprised about that. That happens a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. I didn't know if they were separate pens. Right. But they actually swap. I see.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, this rules. Also, it's like, I don't know.