Editing The Pen Addict 106/transcript (section)

== Pelican M405 ==


'''Guest:''' It's scary sometimes. But in my Brasstown, I carry the Pelican M405. So we have some similarities there. We both carry the Pelican.

'''Guest:''' This one's got the extra, extra fine Masuyama nib and Pelican blue black ink. Then I've got my Edison Perlette, which I love, love, love that pen. And it's got the combination of the Roaring Clingner Salix and the Roaring Clingner Scabiosa, which I got an email, I got a pronunciation guide on Scabiosa. I've been saying Scabiosa. It's actually, which, you know, you don't really want to say it, but it's actually Scabiosa is the proper pronunciation.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, maybe expect it to be a little nicer or whatever, but no.

'''Guest:''' Yeah, yeah. I was trying to be nice, but Scabiosa it is. And I don't have the email in front of me, but thank you, whoever sent me the correct pronunciation of that. Then I have my Platinum Psy, the 3776 Demonstrator, with the Sailor Sky High ink in it. And then I have my TWSBI Micarta. That pen I'm loving because I got Sean Newton to grind a stub nib for me, and it's really firm and really sharp, and I'm liking that nib a lot. And it's got the Sailor Bung Box Blue Black in it, which is the Sailor 4B ink that you can only get in Japan. Then I have a pen. I look at these pens, and I'm going, haven't reviewed that, haven't reviewed that, haven't reviewed that, haven't reviewed that. I don't know that I've reviewed. I think I've reviewed one pen in this entire shot. Pilot Custom Heritage 92, which I'm loving that pen. The blue color is great, and it has the Organic Studio Blue Merle ink, which a bunch of people are wanting to get me to do a review on, so I'll try to work on that soon. A bunch of people are asking questions about that. It's a good blue-black ink. It tends to run very gray, but it still looks pretty good. And then my Edison Menlo, which pretty much the two pens, if I had to just pick two, I'd pick the Edison Menlo and the Nakaya to carry around all the time, the Menlo pump is great, and I have the Roaring Cleaner Blau Schwartz in it right now, which is a dark blue-black, which is really good. So I tried like a few days ago, Myke, or probably this weekend. I got out my pen case, and I said, okay, I need to figure out what I need to clean, what I need to rotate out. And I started pulling out all these pens. I was like, I don't want to. I want to keep all these in here and keep using these.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I find the rotation thing so strange. I just change it when I get a new pen that I want to use more, and then I just have like a couple.

'''Guest:''' Yeah, so it's like a lot of times I do it for testing. So I don't want to end up with 20 pens inked all of a sudden if I'm having to test out different things or do random things. Of that nature. But this is more just the types of pens that I like to use if, you know, just for writing. You know, it's kind of got a range of super extra fine nibs to stub nibs.

'''Guest:''' A little bit of ink variation, but that's okay. I don't mind, you know, having five or six blue-black inks inked up. I actually enjoy seeing those different shades. I don't have any oranges inked up right now like you normally do. I've got a bright blue, and I've got the Salix Scabiosa mix in there, but everything else is a blue-black ink. So yeah, I started to go, all right, let me get some fresh blood in here. Let me clean these out. And I started taking them out and writing with them. I was like, this is going to stay right here. This is the pen I'm going to use. The pen I'm going to use today. The pen I'm going to use next week. And yeah, so I wonder if my, this is a topic we can discuss, you know, down the line. I wonder if my collection is becoming more concise. I'm learning exactly what I want, when I want it, why I want it, and how I want it. And, you know, maybe there's going to be less randomness in the future. Although there'll be some of it because I still review a lot of pens, so I'm getting a lot of new things in and have to do a lot of reviews. But you can see which ones stick after a while. And it's kind of like this group here. I mean, this group has just stuck with me for a while now. There's not, I mean, there's obviously some new pens like the Nakaya and the Menlo is pretty new. But a lot of these other pens I've had for months, if not over a year on some of them that I just keep using and want to keep using. So that's the most important thing. So that's kind of it. You know, our bag dumps aren't exactly thrilling, but we had a bunch of people that like to get on the inside here, get inside of our brains and see what we're carrying. So what does this tell us about us as a person, Myke? I don't know. Did we learn anything?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't think we have, but maybe other people have about us.

'''Guest:''' Yeah, maybe so. Maybe so. I learned that umbrellas are mandatory in the UK, which, you know, I think people take that for granted.

'''Guest:''' And your stupid Rotor Fodden Toshen McGlider, that thing is insanely functional. Whoever gave you that has got to be like your hero.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. And you've now done that thing.

'''Guest:''' Good luck.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, I'm like 90% sure of his name.

'''Guest:''' I won't get you in trouble. We talk about it often enough.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, no, I'm now looking because I can't allow something like this.

'''Guest:''' I'm just amazed. It's good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. So I'm just going to keep looking here for a moment.

'''Guest:''' And I'll keep rambling.

'''Guest:''' But I don't know. Maybe I need to go look at their website again. I'm sure they've gotten a lot of link love from us. Actually, I told you they sent me an email one day, right? Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Christian Hessman. Yes.

'''Guest:''' No, you didn't.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You didn't tell me this.

'''Guest:''' I didn't tell you that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No.

'''Guest:''' I swear I told you that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So what is it?