Editing The Pen Addict 730/transcript (section)

== Instagram Find ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I believe that's their name. So I stumbled on this and I was like, oh, I know exactly what we're talking about this week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh my God.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You see why I did this, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Wow. Wow. I had not seen this one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just happened to be scrolling through Instagram. Wow. And I knew we were talking about the 1P today, as we always do. And then I found someone who's like a maquillage and rodden artist who does like all the fountain pen stuff, like makes the beautiful, fancy fountain pens. And then they had a 1P with a painted barrel on it. And it's just sick. It looks so good. Like the 1P, like we're finding out this is a really good platform for artists as well. Not just hot dog art, but really actually high quality macchiere artwork.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because I guess the and not pen is probably based on the 1P, right? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, yeah. It's kind of.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like you go from that to that. Same aesthetic. Same aesthetic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It doesn't use any of the same parts, but they're using definitely the same plastics.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah. So that's really, really good. And this is a new account to me. Somehow they got, you know, algorithm in my feed. And I'm happy it did because there's a million like fancy pens on here and then a 1P with like a bird on it. And gold. So it's fantastic. Yeah. Really, really good. So, yeah. Y'all go check that out. You should also check out, speaking of San Francisco, Shown Design has a new dip nib called the Little Dipper. And I just wanted to bring this up because it's launching at the San Francisco Penn Show in a couple weeks. And this is, you know, along the lines of a lot of the popular dip nibs that we see. Like Kakamori is always like spoken of in this category where it's kind of like the bullet shape nib. Except what Shown Design here has done, which I wish people would have done a long time ago. Leave it to Ian to actually get out there and do it. Is they've made the back end so it just screws into your Yobo fitting grip section. Right? So you don't need a holder like a Kakamori nib. You need like a dip nib holder. Right? To put that in. This, if you have a pen that takes a Yobo number 6, which is a very popular nib size, you can just remove the whole nib and feed and housing. Just unscrew it. And then screw this in. And you just use it in your regular pen. Which is great. So I have something, you know, like this. Just like a one-off thing. That Brooks made me once to hold some of my drill log nibs. That just fits in like a number 6 threading. So this is great. Just to see these. So, yeah. If you like dip nibs or playing with ink and you're going to be at the San Francisco pen show, he's launching them there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What's so clever about this? Like it's just dawned on me right now. Obviously, you didn't say this, but I don't think you thought you'd need to. It's not a dip nib anymore. How do you mean? It's pulling. Well, okay. Let's tell him that. Is it not pulling from the reservoir?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You still dip it. It just screws in. There's no pass through. There's no pass through. Huh. Which is why like it has the hole and all the ridges in it to hold more ink.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I see. Yeah. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's not those ridges aren't acting like a thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm looking at him using it in a pen and I'm like, oh, like it's no, but there's no ink in the pen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, okay. No, it's acting as a reservoir, not a thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Why not do that?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think it might just be out of control. Ink flow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It'd be fun though, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All at once. Yeah. I mean, I don't know what the retention is and like the holes. There's other, I've seen other nibs do like this, this circular thing to like hold, you know, more ink in there. I'm still not sure how that works. Do you have to hold that like on the vertical side of the nib so it's not spilling? Right. So you can, so you can meter your usage. Okay. I misunderstood. Type of things. Yeah. But it's, it's really good. So it's aluminum. I don't know the cost yet, but I imagine it's in the world of dip nibs and Ian's engineering. I still imagine it's going to be within reason. Like I'm guessing a hundred dollars, give or take 20, but I could be, I could be very wrong. Don't listen to me. I, I'm just guessing, but that would be my expectation, but I've been very wrong in the past. So as we know, Brad is wrong.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, so was I today. So it happens to all of us.