Editing The Pen Addict 126/transcript (section)

== Surprise Ink ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' as we get to number three this is where I need to spill the beans a little bit about my big surprise because it's more about well that's more about I have to to set for me to explain why I love this pen I have to talk about why there's an omission from this list my top five pens does no longer include the retro 51 what

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yep that's a shock I am okay that is a surprise I'm very very surprised so I

'''Myke Hurley:''' need to I need to explain what it's been replaced with the Karas Customs ink ah yeah now there's a very specific there's a very specific and I think quite obvious reason if you own an ink now I love the retro 51 line I love the designs and and I have I continue to buy them I bought one last week it should arrive in a couple of weeks time I'll talk about on the show because I'm now a collector of them because I love the way to look and I'm a collector of them because they bring out all these different limited editions and they're nice to own and they're not very expensive for me to to do that with they are awesome and they write excellently but they write excellently because of the refill the refill is what I love the most in the retro 51 so that Schmidt p1865 something

'''Brad Dowdy:''' like that refill the p187 is what it ships with okay the p186 is generally what I swap it into the the 7 is 0.7 millimeter and the 6 is 0.6 millimeter okay but it is

'''Myke Hurley:''' that Schmidt refill like the 1.8x whatever you know your size is the one I have in the Karas Customs ink is the 8126 so I guess it's 8126 8127 or maybe 817 but anyway the p8 I've just forgotten I've just read it like and I forgot already the p8126 that that refill is what blows my mind I cannot believe it's it's as good as it is and I genuinely believe that the Karas Customs ink is a better pen that holds that refill nice I have been using my exclusively for the last nearly two weeks the Karas Customs ink in both forms and I kind of I can't split them apart like in the idea of I can't say oh the fountain pen is is on and the the like the rollable refill isn't like I I have to put them on together and I know that's kind of cheating but I've been using the fountain pen at work and I've been using the rollable home I love them I love the way they feel I love the way they look I love the build quality I love the fact that it makes this noise I and this noise yeah like they are just fantastic and I know that they've been a sponsor and they're going to be a sponsor in the future and there's nothing I can do about that if you believe my credibility or not I would like to believe that you would I love these pens now I could put this and the retro 51 on the list if I really wanted to but I genuinely think the Karas Customs the Karas Customs produce a better pen to hold this refill in my opinion it's comfortable it's made of aluminium but it's like warm and soft and I hold it I love them I love them and I I'm making more of a point of this and even the two and one because I know that longtime listeners will be very surprised I came to this decision last night when I was looking around and I was like I wouldn't put them both on the same list and I think Karas Customs have made a superior pen so

'''Brad Dowdy:''' you know Dan's in our chat room right

'''Myke Hurley:''' oh no he's got to be freaking out right now right oh yeah he's going he's going crazy so you didn't know

'''Brad Dowdy:''' that as you're like railing through this I'm watching Dan just I had no idea our chat room yeah that is hilarious I mean I like it because I

'''Myke Hurley:''' mean I think that that was kind of what they were going for I think at least that was how I felt when I was originally talking to them is they wanted to create like Dan fell in love with the refill too and I'd like to think that that's what kind of made them create this because it is just fantastic and yeah I'm a big it's just a huge fan I love it and you know you should you should check it out listen to last week's episode we have a promo code you can use if it's still available or listen to future episodes because Karas Customs are going to continue to sponsor the show this year so number two the Pelican M205 I would be surprised if anything can can rock this pen out of the list why did you

'''Brad Dowdy:''' say wow I that wasn't on my radar for you that's it's such a good pen I'm now I'm saying wow because that's a really good really good call yeah well

'''Myke Hurley:''' you know I own one right I mean I know

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know I like I'm saying it wasn't on my radar for this to come up so good

'''Myke Hurley:''' that's good continues to be a superb pen I must mention that I do have a gold nib I bought a gold nib I wasn't a massive fan of the nib that shipped with which is made of metal steel steel there we go stainless thank you and the gold nib made a massive difference to me and I fell in love with it but my number one and it's a new number one it's the Lamy 2000

'''Brad Dowdy:''' look at you that's really good I am so so what makes that the number one for you and and I totally I'm totally behind this and I can understand why but tell me it's for everything that you said in

'''Myke Hurley:''' the past tell me a story I was nervous of this pen but I gave it a shot and you know I gave it a shot mainly because Ron gave us everybody a fantastic discount on it right so I felt like it was the time to do it you know but that was when I bought it bought this pen was when the pen chalet did a discount on it recently it's you know Lamy pens are fantastic the nibs are top-notch right but what you get is this pen that seems to defy everything that you would expect it to be so like you you look at it and like oh yeah that's made of metal and you look at it right you just look at it like or that's like some some material of some kind and you pick it up and it's like light as air but it's balanced in such a way that it's not too light because it seems to have some sort of waiting in the back so when you're holding it and using it it's fantastic and when you're holding it you've got this like beautiful carbon fiber I assume that's what this pen is made of right it's some sort of carbon no it's a

'''Brad Dowdy:''' no it's a fiberglass but that's what I

'''Myke Hurley:''' meant to say not carbon fiber that's insane I meant to say fiberglass yeah

'''Brad Dowdy:''' which I'm blanking on the exact name but there's an exact name for what it's made but it's essentially a fiberglass and

'''Myke Hurley:''' you can feel that if you've ever felt fiberglass it's got like this what feels like brushed aluminium but it's not and that's what it looks like it looks like brushed aluminium but it's this light thing and it it's just fantastic it's just fantastic I love that the clip has that little spring in it yeah such a simple thing but like just as a way it's so many pens need this but don't have it so you can press down on the clip and it brings it up at the other end right like so you press it down at the top and it brings up the bottom so you can clip it onto things like a peg like little things like that I love the fact that the build quality is so great you cannot see the seam where you unscrew the thing like I love the fact that it has those little ridges that clip the cap shut like that

'''Brad Dowdy:''' it's it's macrol on the the chat room has reminded me thank you of the name

'''Myke Hurley:''' of the material you know it's I'm such a fan of this pen I thought I was going to like it I didn't know I was going to fall in love with it and I would be using it every day I've only not been using it every day because I've been taking one pen to work recently and I wanted to take my carous custom sink because it's my new pen and I love it but the the Lamy 2000 were it's the it's the favorite pen that I own like it's because it ticks so many boxes it's beautiful in an elegant way it's professional looking it has an incredible nib right and I know that there's some problems with them but you know contact your vendor if you're having issues or get it ground down like Brad did right but I love I love I just love the pen I just think it's fantastic and I'm pleased that one you talk to me into it and then Ron pushed me over the edge it's a

'''Brad Dowdy:''' fascinating pen it it really is it's

'''Myke Hurley:''' great to look at a great hold yeah yeah