Editing The Pen Addict 226/transcript (section)

== A-Y Murasaki ==


'''Michelle Leung:''' yeah, I'm butchering, sorry, butchering the pronunciation. Yeah. It's A-Y Murasaki, A-W-A-I, Murasaki, M-U-R-A-S-A-K-I.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is so, so pretty. I, you showed me that in person. After you got it, it, it, I think you were waiting. I think you didn't get it to like the second day maybe. I didn't get it to the second day.

'''Michelle Leung:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I, you were like anxious. You like didn't want to shop around because you know this pin's coming, right?

'''Michelle Leung:''' Yeah. Yeah. I didn't, I didn't really need to shop around. I mean, I still ended up picking up other stuff. So I'm broke for the rest of the year, but. Yeah. But when you, when you showed that to me,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I was like, yeah, I was like, wow, this is it. Like you did really, really good. I, I, I love that pin. And, and I was glad to contribute because, uh, I, I picked up a pin that I really love in the Edison Menlo. That's a shape of pin. I talk about all the time. That's probably my favorite shape of Edison. But I don't necessarily need the pump filling aspect of it. So you had an eyedropper made, um, with this, I forget the name of it, but it's like this pink candy crush kind of thing that I call it.

'''Michelle Leung:''' It's called Candy Crush. I, I believe Brian calls it Candy Crush. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's, it's fantastic. You know, I love pink. And when I saw this pin and, and it was a Menlo and it has the ink window, I was like, okay, this is pretty much a Brad pin. I just kind of need to buy it. It's like, it's, it's fantastic. So I love that pin. So I'm glad to be able to, to pitch in and help. And, uh, I think, uh, you, you definitely came out good at the end of the day and, um, in, in funding that pin. So you've been, you've been enjoying it, right?

'''Michelle Leung:''' Oh, definitely. Like I said earlier, no regrets. Each time I look at it, I'm just odd by the beauty. And just to think that, you know, some craftsmen spent months and months applying this Yerushi. Cause I think what most people don't know, or maybe they do is that those fins, they're not carved in. It's, it's actually built because of the layers of Yerushi. And it takes months to cure each layer. And then, you know, the, the person working on the pen has to wait and then they keep building it up. So you get those fins. So the pen originally, it might've even been a cigar shape. I don't know how it starts off, but it does not start off with those, those fins that look like a boat or a samurai sword. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That that's fascinating. And that's why we love the Nakaya so much. It's, it's just because of that uniqueness uniqueness and craftsmanship that goes, goes into them. They're, they're pretty amazing. So like, are you done now? Like you're not buying any more pens, right? Is that what you just said?

'''Michelle Leung:''' Never. I never said that, but I am definitely, uh, because I've been in the community, you know, a while and I've tried so many pens. I'm, I've definitely reached a point where I'm, I know what I like. I'm very picky and I can spend more time, you know, enjoying what I have and yeah, pretty much enjoying what I have. I actually have a very modest collection. Uh, most people, I have like about 20 pens and most people that I know in this community have easily, you know, over a hundred. So I'm very picky. I keep what I truly like. And there's usually a story behind each pen. And that's what I am with. I have to say most of my possessions, I'm, I pride myself in not being a hoarder. I use everything that I own and yeah, I try to live, you know, kind of minimalist. I have to say. Yeah.