Editing The Pen Addict 218/transcript (section)

== Eco Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' If you're looking at those three, if that is your choice, Eco, Safari, and Kaweco, the Eco is a cut above all three of those. It's like in a category all of its own, but with somehow the same price point.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, that, that's the correct answer. It's the Eco. I think the M nib is better than both the Safari and the Kaweco's M nib. Just because I like, I enjoy the firmness of the TWSBI Eco without giving you like a crazy wet wide line in a medium is like still very usable. So I definitely think it's the TWSBI Eco in this case.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Which is just a flat out fantastic pen. It's just incredible. It really is. Love it. Absolutely love it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But if you don't have a fantastic flat out incredible pen like this, Myke, not you, Myke, Myke is looking to sell some pens I don't really use. How or where do you suggest selling them? We get this question all the time. And I really don't like answering this because there's not a perfect answer. Um, I think the, there's two choices. One is the Slack, the Pen Addict Slack, which if you're interested in getting in the Slack, there's a, there's a sell trade channel, um, which is very, very good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' How do people get into the Slack?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Email me or send me a tweet or, or the contact form on penaddict.com. I just need your email address to send the invite to. So get in touch with me to do that. Otherwise the fountain pen geeks classified board is pretty solid. Um, they do a good job over there. And I think that's outside of that. I mean, you're on your own with like eBay or, or fountain pen network. Um, I just never use those things. So there's not a killer killer answer for this, but I think what seems to work the most is the FP geeks and the, the Pen Addict Slack, um, sell trade channel. So are we going with Nils? Is this Nils or Niles in, in your realm of the wood? N-I-L-S.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nils. Nils. That's what I thought too. So I'm going with Nils. Have either of you tried the Sailor Pro Gear Rialo? Wanted to get one, but read the barrel quality is worse than on the cartridge model.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have no idea what this is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So the Rialo, the Rialo, did we not answer this one? I think we answered this one. I think you're double dipping some of these questions. Am I? I don't know. You might have.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, this is one of those things where I feel like I've never heard of something.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So I'm wondering if like these right here, we've already done. That's okay. New listeners, new information, but I will tell you, I have not tried the Rialo. It's the shape of the 1911, but it's a piston filler. And I remember after this question, I asked some people about the Rialo and they've never, the people who use the Rialo have never had issues with them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I don't remember this one. So there you go. I now notice information for next time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. Yes. But these are new because these came from the last show. I got a bunch of email STPAs, which I thought were all wonderful. They're a little bit longer than our Twitter style STPAs. Yep. But let's, let's, we got like three or four of these. We'll get through real quick. So hello, Myke and Brad. My name is Dominic. And I just recently got into the pen world and all its wonders. I'm a computer science student. So I spend a big portion of my day glued to a piece of graph paper. And I noticed that many of the pens I use aren't that great. We've all been there, Dominic. We've all been there. It says the kicker here is I am a left-handed and I have a small handwriting. So anything with very liquid ink makes my notes look like a Rorschach test, but writing with a pig pigma micron is unsustainable. And I can't use erasables like the pilot friction since we have to use permanent pens for many things. What would you guys recommend? Thanks. And keep up the best, keep up the great show and best regards from Germany. In his very specific situation, he's a student. He's left-handed. He uses graph paper. It has to be permanent. I think the only answer is the Jetstream 0.38 or 0.5 millimeter. They're going to be able to handle the fine writing. They have Uni Super Ink technology, which is in all the Jetstreams now. They write really, really fine. And they're smear proof. I don't know what else ticks all these boxes, to be honest. I mean, maybe there's something I'm not thinking of. But the permanents, you know, he doesn't say it's mandatory, but we use permanent ink for many things. It sounds like it's all but mandatory. Sorry.