Editing The Pen Addict 306/transcript (section)

== Pen Flush ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' How about pen flush?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't use it as much as I thought because I use mostly modern pens. And I have good pen hygiene as it is. So, I'm never needing the extra that pen flush offers. It does come in handy. I've used it plenty. I just don't use it every time I'm cleaning my pens because my pens are maintained.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's not like an essential part of your toolkit. I like it. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I get you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. So, in the chat room is mentioning Brian Chewbacca and Ink Dependence are both mentioning a loop. And I do have a loop. I do like looking at the nibs. But I can't really like tell. Like I can tell born by feel if I'm on like a grit pad. But if you're like trying to fix a nib problem, you definitely need a loop to see what you need to work on there. So, that's another good call. And there's some pretty inexpensive loops. You don't need a super fancy one. All right. Zaza the drummer says, Is the Retro 51 refill slightly thicker than a standard Schmidt refill? I started making pens and got really excited because I thought I found a kit that would fit the best ink refill in the world. But it wouldn't fit. So, we need more information here. I think I got caught up in a Twitter chat on this one and found that it was actually the ballpoint refill they were using, not the Schmidt refill. So, Retro 51 does not use a single universal refill. It depends on the pens, right? So, the Tornadoes fit the Retro-branded P8127 refills. The Poppers and the other ballpoints fit the Schmidt Easy Flow 9000 refills, which is a different shape. It's a Parker shape. So, it depends on which refill. You know, you got to decide on which one it is. So, it could be you're just getting them cross-pollinated there on which refill you're actually using because there is no standard Schmidt refill. There's different Schmidt refills for different pens. So, let me know. I think you might have got this question answered on Twitter the other day. So, if not, give me a shout and we'll figure out exactly which one you're using. So, Captain Domestic asks, is there such thing as an inking book? Now that serious coloring books are a thing, how about books with nice paper and non-photo blue pencil drawings? Am I the only one who wants to buy this? Hmm, no. But it's like you and three other people maybe. So, it's not a big market. Like, I think getting the non-photo blue pencil in a book is probably a turn off just for general retail purposes. Like, I think it's very specialty. Like, I would like it. I would enjoy it. I would enjoy taking, like, the inking aspects of finishing off the non-photo blue pencil drawings. And I would enjoy, like, creating my drawing from that base. But I don't think, like, in the grand scheme, like, that would ever be, like, a mainstream thing. Like, we saw coloring happen with colored pencils and colored markers. Not that you can't use those things on this, but I think the hesitancy is you're starting with a page that's not as vibrant or not as direct as the standard coloring books are that we see these days. So, you're going to need a more advanced person to buy this type of thing. And there's probably, like, a teeny market for it, but I don't think it'll ever pop and become, like, a mainstream thing like we saw coloring go. I think it's a cool idea, though. And there might be something out there if you can buy, like, a blue, non-photo blue comic art and draw based on that. So, yeah, I don't know. That's not something I looked at. But I kind of like the idea. I just don't think there's a huge market for it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think that makes a lot of sense. Mm-hmm.