Editing The Pen Addict 265/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I've never seen them before. So they're basically pens that hold one or two ounces of ink in them. So you don't need to dip them as often.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So it's like a desk style pen. I have never used one of those, but I am a big fan of dip pens in general. I actually had Sean Newton make a holder, just the barrel part for my Estherbrook nibs, because they just screw in and you can use, they have so many, you know, hundreds of different styles of nibs. And they just screw in. So I use that barrel if I want to use an Estherbrook dip nib, but I've never, I've never even seen one of these for purchase, although I haven't been looking for them. I'm sure they're available, but these look really cool. Like I would buy one of these if I saw it, just because it has that added ink capacity.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They look nice. I mean, I can imagine these being very nice desk pens. Yeah, exactly. You know, like you have them in the little ink thing and you take them out when you need them. It's kind of nice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Very cool. All right. Kim wants to know if we have any advice for nice pen displays. And I think I answered this or wrote back saying I need more information because you can go a lot of different ways. Are you trying to have like a dudek modern goods holder where your pens stand up vertically so they're easy to access and look good on your desk? Do you want a storage chest kind of things with three drawers and you can open the drawers? Do you want a glass top fountain pen? Are these fountain pens? You know, I need more information for nice pen displays because there are a lot of options out there. Some much more expensive, some much more reasonable and feasible, but depending on what you want to do, there's a lot of different ways you go. But I look at dudek modern goods for like vertical pen holders. And then I just search for like cigar boxes with glass windows or some type of window on the top if you want to see through and have the pens lay flat. So I don't have any specific ones to point you to, but I can definitely point you in the right direction if I figure out more what you want to do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You cannot go wrong with a dudek modern good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nope. Nope. But I have both types of things on my desk. So I have the dudek blocks and then I have cigar boxes with clear tops. And you can find lots of pen cases that hold, you know, around eight to 12 pens and you can display them real nicely with like a glass lid. And it looks real pretty. So Jane wants to know, is it wrong to encourage pen addiction and friends so I have people to talk to in real life? If not, what's the best way to do it? It's definitely not wrong to encourage pen addiction, Jane.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But there's something you have to do though. If you're going to, if you're going to do this, if you're going to try and encourage friends in your life to become pen addicts, they also have to be encouraged to listen to the podcast. That's, that's what you must do. You must get your friends to listen to the show as well as getting, as listening yourself and or, and or getting them to convert to buying stuff. Very important. Two step process.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. You went one step beyond there real quick. You're like, come join us and listen and buy all the things. You're welcome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. I think it's pretty simple to be honest,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' but yet, but no, what you want to do, Jane is you want to have a starters kit because you never know what someone's going to like. So carry a starters kit with you or plan. If you're going to meet someone, you know, have that starters kit ready, have like a 0.5 gel, have a 0.7 ballpoint, you know, nice stuff like uni ball stuff. Um, have a Sharpie pen, not the marker pen, but like the drawing tip pen, you know, have a mechanical pencil, have a nice wooden pencil, like a black wing and lay all these things out there and get a nice pad of paper. You know, right pads, if you want to do something fancy, um, and lay them out, let them try, talk about what the differences are for each and they'll click with something. And once they click with that one thing, well, now you have a path to talk about the other things and what other pens related. Do you like it? Okay. Do you like this gel pen? Do you like it finer or wider? Now you can keep going down this route. So, and then you can get them into looking at other pens, like a retro 51, you know, that's more expensive and, uh, things like that. So you just got to open the door a little bit. And most of the time they'll either just flat out, not care, or they'll latch onto something. And once they latch onto something, then you can just go from there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And Brad, what is the best possible pen case to, uh, assemble a, uh, start kit in, do you think?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' probably like a not co Brasstown or a Sinclair.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Good, good idea. Good idea.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'll have to look those up. You're like in full pimp mode today.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What can I say?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I like, yeah, I like you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like you. So, all right. It's because I've realized how much money I'm going to spend in DC. I need to make sure that we're, we're breaking everything impossible until then.