Editing The Pen Addict 18/transcript (section)

== Journal Dimensions ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. They're all, they're all that, that size, I think is three and a half by five and a half.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want to say.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh, field notes. I'll open it up now. Cause it's actually got the measurements in the back. Uh, they're three and a half by five and a half. Yeah. So it's slightly bigger, but I didn't, I wanted it to overlap, not to be smaller, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, so I fit all, all of that style, like utility journal, you know, small pocket notebook, basically almost all of them are that same dimension. So yeah, this is like the perfect cover for those. I thought, you know, I was like, well, I did not think of that. That's just right there, right in front of you. That's perfect. I think that's a great use for them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Um, I was, I had a brainwave cause I've been looking for, and I've had, I've suggested it on the show before I wanted something to put my field notes in and I've had a couple of people suggest a couple of things, but they've like been leather and they've been really expensive or just not, just not what I'm looking for, for whatever reason. And then I remembered cause I wanted one of these journals, but they were sold out for a long time. Yes. And then I thought when I was sort of flicking through, um, when I was basically that this, this big, um, purchase on jet pens, um, there was nothing that I was looking to buy. Like I had a couple of things I wanted to knock off the list. Like some cheaper stuff like the, the, the sign pen and stuff. Um, and then I just started trawling the top lists for, I try out some new things like of my own rather than just, you know, things that you suggested to actually try to see, you know, what can I, what can I get here? Like, let's have a look, let's have a dig around. And then I was just looking through the top lists and buying the things that made, that looked interesting to me. And, and then I ended up going into the notebooks and saw the Pelé and they had them, um, in stock. I was like, I've got to buy one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it sort of just occurred to me and like a fleeting moment, but it was cool. I'm really, I'm really pleased with it. I love it. Absolutely love it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Now you're, you're, I'm going to have to, when we're done, I'm going to have to go get, get mine out and start using it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think you should. I've been putting it off and putting it off and putting it off. So I need to, I need to get on that. Cause it's really nice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Really? I like it a lot. So, uh, I mean, I have spoken a lot in this episode and it's, we're already at 40 minutes. If you've got anything you want to add before we wrap up today?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I just want to know, didn't, I guess it didn't get stuck in customs this time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, I got it all. Um, the, I didn't go with the, um, I went with the cheap shipping, the untracked shipping. Gotcha. So I was able to, to get it all in, in, in good, good time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, you did, you did awesome. You got some, you did get some awesome stuff. And that's, that's funny about the, uh, the Teffa pin case, because I, I wrote down the, the one thing I want to talk about was I got that case and just say, you know, the, the couple issues that I had with it. And, but you know, it, it's still an awesome case. The other one other pin that I've got, which I didn't have high hopes for, um, when I bought it just because I, I don't know, I w I was a little unsure, but I bought one of the, um, the Lamy Tipo roller balls from jet pins.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh yeah. They look really cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. The Tipo has been around for a while. I don't know if I'm, I don't know if it's Tipo or Tipo. It's been around for years and years and years, but I don't know if these colors that they introduced are new. Um, that's really kind of, it's one of those pins where I had low expectations and it's kind of surprised me in a, in a positive way. The, the, I have a, um, Lamy AL star, the aluminum barrel roller ball pin, and I didn't like it at all. It's, it's very large. Um, I didn't like the refill. I thought it was too inky. Um, you know, most of those come with a standard 0.7 millimeter, uh, liquid ink roller ball refill. This one, for some reason, it, I don't know. It, it reminds me a lot of the retro 51 and how it writes, you know, that, that type of refill. When I, when I started writing with it, the, you know, the barrel is very different than the retro 51. It's hugely different. I mean, it's a lightweight plastic molded plastic, you know, plastic grip. Um, you know, it's, it's about half the price of the retro 51 too, but from a writing experience, it was awfully close and I haven't broken them out side by side, but I keep finding myself going back to this Tipo and it's still, you know, it's a medium tip. I mean, it's, it's 0.7 millimeter refill, but I don't know. I'm, I'm enjoying it very much. And, and one thing about this pin I'll, I'll explore it before our next episode. I'm pretty sure that, you know, people that like to do pin hacks. I think this pin fits a few very common gelling pins like the G2, like you could put a G G2.38 refill in this without any modifications and use that as a upgraded G2 barrel, but I'll verify that before next episode. So I was, I was, this was on the pleasantly surprised list.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So yeah, it's always nice to be pleasantly surprised. Like, like I was with the Pentel 3D. I didn't really know. I thought I was getting a cheap fountain pen. Like, you know, Pilot do the V pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. I have some of those.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Which are cool. Nice disposable pen. Mine are probably those. I used that. I've been used, I had been using those for years, but they run out quick. And the reason I used to buy, I used to buy those when I was in school, because you could get really bright colors and really like wild colors in a fountain pen. And at that time that was quite new to me. You know, you could get these really bright colors because I, you know, I didn't know anything about inks or anything like that. But yeah, no, I liked it. I liked it a lot.