Editing The Pen Addict 163/transcript (section)

== Colt Pens Pencil ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Initially, I wasn't sure about it. And so I've been using the Colt Pens mechanical pencil in a .7, because somebody asked this recently, since they sent it to me. And then they sent it to me for free. They just sent it to me. I didn't know it was coming. They just sent it to me in a box because it was one of their new products.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. They told me they were doing it and sent you and I one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And they're proud of them. So they like to send them out. And they have every right to be proud of this thing. I love this thing. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. It's really nicely made, really nicely designed. I have a silver one. My very favorite thing about it is this thing. That is. So there is a button on the side. And I think a double knock. I think it's called.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I've gotten a little bit corrected before. I don't want to. It's not actually a double knock. I don't think there's a different term for it. But yeah, it basically retracts the lead pipe. So you're not poking yourself is the theory.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So you have this button, which is the button you're used to. It does this and puts the lead out. Yes. Yes. And then you press this button on the side and the whole thing like the knock on the top flies right up and you end up with the lead pipe, as you call it. Is that from Clue, right? Yeah. By the way, that game here is called Cluedo. What? Yeah. It's not called Clue. That's ridiculous. Well, it's not really ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous that it's called Clue.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But yeah, it's called Cluedo. Like Ludo. You know the game Ludo?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. Is it called Lou here?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Probably because you guys do weird things.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They call it the Colt Pens Double Knock Mechanical Pencil. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, maybe that's the correct term.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Whether it is correct or not, but that's what they call it. I've just been looking that up. That is definitely what they call it. And I love this thing. It is really, really fantastic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Can I, I'm going to interrupt you and say, I've never been so happy to see you fascinated with a mechanical pencil because this is like legit. I mean, you got this pencil, like you would have never purchased this pencil. Never. Never. And you've gotten this and you use it just constantly. It's like you found this, you found a new friend and you're in love with it. And now you've made a purchase on top of that because you got that first pencil, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. So like the main, the main way that I use writing instruments these days is the show notes that I take. So when I say show notes, I mean, like as we're recording, I take little notes down of things that I need to edit later and stuff like that, like timestamps and stuff. That is the main use that I have with pen and pencils these days. I don't use a lot, do a lot of notes. If I have a telephone call or like a Skype call, then I'll usually grab a pen or whatever. But I have been using this. I've been using my current notebook here since episode 157. So let's say it's been about six or seven weeks. And I can't remember what was in the previous one, but every single page on here is written in mechanical pencil lead.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So the Colt Ben's mechanical pencil has taken over as the thing that I have on my desk at all times, like just out. Like I have a bunch of stuff in my, uh, my block. What is that? What is, what is, what a Dudek and Karas? Dudek. What do they call it? No, the cube. The cube. That's it. The cube. I have like, you know, my favorites in the cube. We were talking about our like, what did we call it last week? The number one tier one. So my tier one pens are there. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But then I have the mechanical pencil that sits right next to me by my left hand side. So when I originally got the rotaring out of the packet, uh, I was underwhelmed initially. Um, I was sad that I didn't have the double knock mechanism because I like that. I like playing with that. I like just pressing that button. Right. Um, and there was like this thing about the rotaring 600, the rotaring 600, the rotaring 600, like it's this mythical being, right? Sure. Of a thing. Um, but I've been using it for about five or six days now. And I've really loved this one as well for completely different reasons. So what I love about the Colt pens, mechanical pencils, it's so light. What I love about the rotaring 600 is that it's so heavy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That doesn't make any sense. I know. No. But that's, I love about them both. I love that one is really light and one is really heavy. Uh, the Colt pens has a, a large clip on it, which stops it from rolling around. Um, and the rotaring has a, like a hexagonal body to stop it from rolling around. So they both have, again, they're completely different, but I love that they both have that. Um, the knurling on the rotaring is, is very aggressive and quite strong feeling, which is not so much on the Colt pens. Uh, and again, I love them both for that. They are, they feel like to me, this is no surprise to anyone, right? Like, I feel like I've just discovered this new thing here, but they are two very different pencils. And I love them both for their different things, which is just like why all the things that I love about pens. Right. Right. Give me two fountain, give two, give someone two fountain pens. And I like, these are two fountain pens. Like they're different. It's the same with this guy. And also the pencil lead. Uh, I don't know what is in the Colt pens. Uh, what, what the lead is. I don't know what it is. Um, it says Einstein lead. Yeah. That's the unit. I assume that's what they put in mine. I don't know what's in the rotaring 600, but I prefer what's in the rotaring 600. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, I really, I really, I think that, I think the uni Einstein is one of the, um, kind of the breakage, one of the breakage prevention leads. I believe I'm not sure. Like it's a little bit stronger.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It does feel very strong. Actually. That's a great way of putting it because I was going to say the rotaring 600 feels soft. Uh, and that's what I really like about it. It's a very soft feeling lead. Uh, it has a 2B4, hey, uh, no, that's the lead grade indicator. Sorry. I'm reading something else. That's something I didn't understand. Like it had this little thing. You can turn it on the top. Right. Right. And you can say what leds in there. I'm like, is it changing the led? I'm like, I'm so confused. I was like, what is this thing?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So back, back before the days of, of computer aided drafting, you know, the, uh, architects and engineers would have four of those rotarings laying on the desk and each one would have a different lead grade in them for different tasks. So that's how they would know which one to pick up. If they had all silver rotaring 600s, all loaded with lead, and then the, they would just turn the indicator so they could pick one up and, uh, know which one was, what was loaded in that pencil.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I got the 0.7 millimeter again, and I assume this has rotarings pencil lead in it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I don't even know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't know, but I'm going to assume that that's what's in there. And I prefer the lead in this because it's softer. Okay. It feels nicer to use over a longer period of time. I feel like I'm going to go deep into this, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is actually one of the best conversations we've ever had on the show. I love seeing you like discover this was like really random. I think that's what, what, you know, interests me the most about this. This was, this wouldn't have happened. Not, not expected at all from you. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There is no way I would have ever gone down this, this road because as I had said, and I have, you, you could find the audio of me saying this. I believed I had found the perfect mechanical pencil, which was the Kurutoga because it fixes the problem. Right. But now that problem I think is a thing that I love. The fact that the lead wears down, I like that because like with a fountain pen, depending on where that I use it after a certain period of time, I can like get a thin line, I can get a wide line. And one of the great things that I have for using this mechanical pencil, as I mentioned many times on other shows, I like to keep my hands and eyes busy while I'm recording. It actually helps me focus on listening because I'm not being distracted. Some ways that I do that is by playing mindless iPhone games. Some people think that this is horrific, but I know that you understand it, but some listeners, they think it's really weird and they think that I'm not focusing. But trust me, if I'm not doing something, I'm not focused because I'm looking at my computer and there's things on my computer, you know, there's like the internet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Agree completely.