Editing The Pen Addict 95/transcript (section)

== Mad Men Props ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So this guy, this is George from My Supply Room. And his blog goes way back. And I have a special place in my heart for George because he reached out to me long, long ago when I was starting my blog. And he said he was a reader. And he's got this crazy collection of pens in his garage or basement or some room in his house. And he wanted a place to, you know, he thought he should start a blog and have some place to show and talk about these pens because he's, you know, he's passionate about it. And he's a collector of old and vintage pens. And so, you know, we had some conversations in the beginning about getting him started. So I've always followed George, not just for that reason, but because the guy's collection is out of hand. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. After he started this blog. And I've mentioned this on the podcast before for a long time listeners might have caught me mention this. But once he started putting out all these old pens, like from the 60s, certain Hollywood types reached out for from the prop department. A show you may have heard of called Mad Men. Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No way.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So George provides the pen props to Mad Men out of his collection.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's so awesome.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Wow. Yep. That's so cool. So how cool is that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's a small world, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And he doesn't talk about it very much. He's he, you know, he keeps it pretty much on the down low. He's mentioned it a couple of times because they gifted him like a big display unit one time for, you know, sending them some pens. They got him like an old, you know, like an old retro, you know, I can't remember. It might have been like a Parker display or Schaefer display something. You know, they said he talked about, you know, with my work with the show and they gave me this. And so that was pretty cool. So if you want to see a very cool pen collection and learn something about, you know, where a lot of pens we're using today, like, you know, the big clicks and and some of the traditional ballpoints. And, you know, one of his recent posts, he's got an old paper mate flare, which I mean, this thing looks like it's from the 60. Yeah, it's 1966 paper mate flare, which, you know, is still in use today. So you can learn a lot of good history from his site and you should definitely check it out. So that's George. His blog is my supply room and we'll have the link. It's my supply room dot blog spot dot com. And we'll have that link in the show notes and make sure you have some time to kill because once you start scrolling through the links, you're going to be lost there for a little bit.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I did a few reviews in the past couple of weeks that we haven't had time to cover. And I always like to I now like to at least mention those on the podcast. So sometimes, you know, I get a little bit of feedback on the reviews or, you know, it's good to not just hear or not just read the words about the pen, but to kind of have a little bit deeper explanation and conversation. And one of the ones I wanted to talk about was the Uni Jetstream Prime 3 color ballpoint. And what this is, it's a multi pen and Jetstream. Uni is cranking on the Jetstream line in Japan. I mean, they make all different colors, all different sizes. They make tons of different multi pens. I was actually this one. I was actually surprised this one came out because it's like a high end multi pen. This is like a metal barrel business.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Desk, I don't know, just a real nice, nicely done Jetstream multi pen. And I was actually I was excited to review it. It's pretty expensive. All things considered, it's $45 at Jetpens, which is real expensive. But some people want a nicer barrel pen, you know, for whatever reason, for work or for durability, who knows?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And the one I chose is really cool looking. It's a black and chrome two tone barrel. It's really nice. The refills are great. The Jetstream refills. The good thing about them is they're standard D1 size refills. And if you're not familiar with the D1 refill, it's a real small metal refill that actually fits in a lot of pens. It's kind of a universal size. And you can mix and match different different D1 refills. Like I could use this Jetstream barrel and I could use the D1 refill of the Zebra Charbo gel 0.4 millimeter. And it would fit right in this pen. No questions asked. So that's a great feature about this pen. But they did one thing on this pen that kind of blew my mind and kind of throws it off for me. I really think they've kind of gone on the Lamy design path here, which is good. It's a very German looking pen from a Japanese company. It's these sleek lines and, you know, this black and chrome. It really, if you told me it was a Lamy, I would almost believe you until you look at the end of the clip. And there's this little faux plastic blue jewel on the clip. I don't know where the heck this came from. It's so random. And it really confuses the design of the pen completely.