Editing The Pen Addict 12/transcript (section)

== Mother's Day Gifts ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' but it's no pens this time. So good. So yeah, remember mother's day. Don't worry if in the UK, it's already passed. We had it ages ago. If you're in the U S mother's day, was it the eight 13th or

'''Brad Dowdy:''' something? Yeah. Next, not this weekend, but next weekend. So yeah. Hey, pens make a good, uh,

'''Myke Hurley:''' mother's day gift, but I, I didn't go with pens. So you suggest the, uh, the, the Rodia. Cause it's called the web notebook. That's the one that's kind of like the moleskin, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's got that band and stuff. Yeah. Same general, same general design. Um, it's, uh, it's for the same large moleskin size. I think the web notebooks may be a fraction larger, like maybe a quarter inch or half inch in width as I found out when I was trying to fit one in my rickshaw bag that didn't fit. Cause it's a little bit wider. Okay. But the, the paper quality is excellent. Um, if you, you know, Rodeo, if you should, you should be able to find Rodeo, you know, I won't say it may not be the easiest thing to find locally, but you should be able to find a good distributor in Spain. Um, and, and I think, cause I think they're made in France actually. And same thing with the Clairefontaine, they have a, um, they have good paper. And if you can find a Clairefontaine or Quo Vadis notebook, it's going to be the similar type of paper quality to the Rodeo. Excellent. Um, a couple other things we can, we can knock out real quick. Um, cause one is an email, another email that I don't really have an answer to, but I want to ask the audience to, to help me out with this. It's fountain pen storage. Um, I've been asked this several times. Um, I've never really thought about it too much. So I did a little bit of digging. You know, I have several pens on my desk that are inked up. Um, obviously a fountain pen that's not inked up. That's easy. Store it however you want it. Um, but the inked up pens, I've been storing them horizontally. Um, I started to wonder if that was an issue with my Twisby that I mentioned before. I had that little pool of ink in the cab. Um, so I did a bit of reading. And of course the first thing I said, I read says, yes, absolutely. Store them horizontally. I'm like, well, okay. And then I got to read more in the consensus seem to be for fountain pen storage is to store them nib up, you know, like in a cup or, or, or something like that. If you, if you have them in store them nib up, which makes logical sense. I mean, it's not, it's, um, you know, it's a more fluid inking system than, you know, your pressurized refills or cartridge. I mean, or your gel ink refills or ballpark ink refills, you know, they're not going to be, they're not as finicky as a fountain pen. So

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'd love to hear some. I'm storing nib up, right? Does it not,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' does it not dry out the nib? The theory is that if you store it, no, pretty much no one would, would store it nib down, I would hope. But if you're storing it horizontally, you end up soaking the feed. That's, you know, that's where the ink's, um, coming from, for the nib and it might end up clogging your pen more and being more of an inconsistent, um, writing pen, it might glob it up a little bit more by storing it vertically, nib up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Everything I read says that as soon as, if you use a cartridge or, uh, you know, a converter, as soon as the ink touches the feed, it's going to go. It doesn't matter that it's been not necessarily touching this whole time. Um, like I said, I, I'm not an expert in that by any means. So I'd like to get some feedback, email, um, anything you guys can do to tell me how you store your fountain pens. Um, it's something to think about since I have, I have so many now and I try not to keep too many of them inked. I, I'm pretty good about cleaning. If I'm not going to use something for a while, I'll clean it out and store it away. But now that I've got more of them, I probably have, I'm probably looking at six of them on my desk right here. Um, and I want to make sure I'm storing them the best way possible. So I'd love to get some feedback on that. Sounds good. But you carry, you carry your safari in your shirt pocket and while it may not be, you know, a day or two days that you don't use it every

'''Myke Hurley:''' time you break it out, it writes, right? I've always sold my pens nib up. Yeah. I'm about, I've just taken the Kaweco out. I've not used it for a week and a half. Let's see. Yep. Right. It's perfect. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I think, I think nib ups the way the going to be the way to go, but I would love to hear

'''Myke Hurley:''' some more feedback. I'd kind of not really noticed that I did that. It's just kind of all of my pens are sort of like, uh, they cap up, you know? Yeah. Right. Or like, so, you know, like for example, on like a, a rocker, you see the top of the pen, you know, they just face that way of finish. It's just the way that I like store my pen. It's quite scary now looking at my pen cup and seeing them all like that. And I didn't know I did it until just then. And that's pretty much how I