Editing The Pen Addict 198/transcript (section)

== Pilot Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. So he's a huge fountain pen fan, which is, this is well known and his favorite pen. And he uses it at book signings is the pilot eight 23, which is the big pilot. It's one of the best pens. It's a fantastic pen. So he, he posted out a tweet. It says after about a million signatures, it's time for a pilot. It's time for pilot eight 23 to get TLC. Should I go to pilot or a pen repair, a pen repair repair place?

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's difficult for me to say.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, um, um, a bunch of people were adding me in like, you know, to, to see the tweet and, you know, my recommendation. I think most people with recommendations, you want to go to a pen repair, golly, pen repair. Pen repair place.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Pen repair place. Um, just because you can get that, uh, um, extra little TLC, the real direct involvement, not that pilot wouldn't do anything, you know, wrong with it, but you don't know who's working on the pen. You don't know what their experience is. You don't know how long it's going to take with a pen repair place. You can get, um, you know, more customized work done. You can ask more direct questions and have, you know, just kind of a better one-on-one situation for your beloved pen. And this is his signature writing pen, right? For all of his book signings. So it's an important pen to him. So he wants it, uh, to be, to be worked on well. So, uh, hopefully that's what he, what he did. Not that sending back to pilot was, is anything wrong, but there's kind of no point, um, in sending that, a pen like this back to pilot. Um, I don't know what they would do anything better than what you could get from a Nibmeister or something like that. So, um, I thought that was pretty cool, but I would definitely recommend going, going to a local or, you know, regional pen repair shop. I'm sending it out to them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just find your local replier place and they'll replier it all up nicely for you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Second question from a Casey coffee. Can I put regular stainless steel Lamy nibs on my 2000? And the answer is no. Those are different shape nibs. The gold nib has, it's a very small nib, um, that you have to kind of, it has to fit correctly under the barrel design. So those, um, regular, anything that goes on the Safari, AL star studio, any of that shape nib, which is actually consistent across the product line, all the way up to the dialogue three. None of those are going to fit in the 2000. The 2000 is a unique nib of its own. Um, and you have to order those. Um, I don't know that any of our favorite resellers like Goulet or Anderson or any of those that are like really into, um, the, the brands carry 2000 replacement nibs. I think you have to probably order those straight from Lamy would be my guess.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I'd be interested to know why Casey wanted to do this. Um, my thinking would be that there is maybe some nib work needed on that nib because possibly those nibs are fantastic. I mean, I would, I would be, I would wonder why you'd want to replace it with another Lamy nib, right? Yeah. That seems like an interesting kind of peculiar choice, I think. So maybe, cause I know that, you know, we've spoken about this in the past. The 2000 can be a little bit, uh, I'm not so sure what you're going to get, right? Like you can get a good one or a bad one. Um, so I, I would suggest maybe just trying to get some work done on the nib if you feel like it needs to be changed in some way, as opposed to trying to find a new one or a replacement.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, exactly. I would totally agree with that. And, um, yeah, you just gotta, you might have to get your 2000 nib worked on, which a lot of people have had to get their 2000.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I was very lucky that mine came out practically perfect.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. Yep. Um, next one's from Mark Yeager says, I'll be in London this summer. What other can't miss pen and or stationary stores? Do you have any comment on this, Myke? Cause we, I kind of have a decent answer. Yeah. Um, from, from our friend Tessa who runs all things stationary. She keeps a stationary map of the world. Um, and that's where I point people to all the time when they're looking for something regional and she's kind of tracked them. But do you have any, any comment on this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, my comment was, is about this map actually, cause it's quite funny. A couple of weeks ago when I met Andy and we went for a drink with Tessa and we were talking about the state of things in London stationary wise. And I was like, I don't really know of anything. And she's like, you haven't looked at my map because there is so many interesting stores here in London, uh, that I had no idea even existed. And my excuse, uh, is I'm much more tied into the U S scene than the UK scene, I think in general. Um, but yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on here. I mean, but this, this stationary map isn't just London. Uh, there are really interesting stores all over the world on Tessa's map. Um, yeah, I think she, she takes feedback.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' She takes feedback to add more. So I, not only did I send this link to Mark, I had already sent it out like once or twice earlier in the week for people looking for something in some areas. Like go check out this map. So it's, it's a really cool resource that she, she set up. It's awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it is. Uh, it's, it is fantastic. And she really knows the stuff. So.