Editing The Pen Addict 409/transcript (section)

== Letter Writing Kits Discussion ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' tools for cleaning pens not that i use them bar i wish i had a tool bar if i had a pen tool bar cleaning bar then maybe i would do it anymore but i stepped over here clairefontaine you said right

'''Brad Dowdy:''' clairefontaine triomphe that's probably the most popular right it's just really good quality paper in a pad that's um like glue brown but it's very clean so like when you rip off the sheet it looks like you're just using a single sheet not that you tore something out of a pad of paper and it can come it comes with the envelopes you know as part of the kit so like that's what i'm assuming you're asking for the kit my favorite though would be the pilot letter pad which is just a really you know any japanese product is gonna you know pique my interest for sure i like this it has a really wide ruling which is kind of neat so if i'm writing a letter you know on the few times i've ever written a letter i have used this paper because one of the points is my letter of my letter would be to show off the ink and the nib so i'll have these big spaces between lines and use like a 1.1 stub nib and use my big blocky blocky letters it works perfectly on this paper it also can come with matching envelopes so those are my two really go-tos i actually use those papers all the time just because they're good

'''Myke Hurley:''' paper so next up mike hobby collector 9 says am i crazy for skipping over almost all cartridge converter mechanism pens i much prefer piston filler piston fillers and the like but i'm sure that i'm missing out seems like converters never write as well for me with regards to ink flow tell me that i'm

'''Brad Dowdy:''' missing something okay you're not missing anything i do think that the ink flow is comparable between the two i understand the idea that you might think it's different maybe it's like this placebo effect thing going on that oh this mechanism isn't as nice as the other therefore my writing experience is assumedly not as nice but you're not missing out if you choose to only use piston fillers like i don't think you're missing out like that's totally fine i know several people that do the same thing that you do that they will not consider a pen let's take leonardo as a perfect example and you know none of them are piston fillers so are you missing out no because you're enjoying what you like right and you shouldn't force yourself into purchasing anything that you're not that you don't have like a just a direction for liking right that you might question after you purchase like you never want to spend your money on something that you're just not dedicated to so no i don't think you're missing out right so you know there's brands you just have to eliminate but you like the piston filling mechanism you like what that brings to you and if that's all you want to use i don't think you're missing out at all because

'''Myke Hurley:''' you're using what you enjoy yeah i think so i mean honestly i can't i can't say that i have noticed any difference in ink flow for me like it's never something that i've that i've noticed like it's all they all i don't think i've ever used a pen where i'm like oh i think the ink flow is not so good because of the filling system but maybe i'm just not attuned to it i don't know but i've never noticed

'''Brad Dowdy:''' it yeah i haven't noticed that either i think that's probably just you know putting two two and two together like incorrectly i just don't think that's the case but you know can i can i prove that no but it doesn't you know based on years of using all kinds of different pens i've never thought oh this pen isn't working as well because it's not a piston filler that's never come up

'''Myke Hurley:''' frost virus asks after finding the show i wanted to try a fountain pen and got a platinum preppy to dip my toe into the water but i hated it i also picked up a sign of the x and it's my new favorite pen is it okay to like pens but not fountain pens is there something else i should try

'''Brad Dowdy:''' these these two questions are very similar right they want or they're looking for support to their stance and yeah like use what you like right we're always going to say use what you like some people absolutely hate fountain pens and you know love their gel ink pens or love strictly pencils and won't use a pen right you have to look at how you use things what you get your enjoyment from what makes your handwriting look great and it doesn't have to be all of the things like me like i use all the things and can find enjoyment in all of them maybe a fountain pen doesn't work for you that's totally okay my website was built on not fountain pens right like everything for the first couple years of the pen addict first two or three years there was probably just a handful of pen reviews if that fountain pen reviews if that so yeah it's totally okay like i love the signo dx it's one of my favorites of all time for obvious reasons like i've made helped make a pen barrel around that refill i adore that refill and you should too if that's the pen that works the best for you you know it's uh it's totally okay to use that pen and you know if that's your favorite pen you just say it loud and proud i'm i'm a dx person and that's my pen and it's the best because it works the best for me and that's all you need

'''Myke Hurley:''' and you know i would say stay open to things try things out over time like it might just be that the platinum perp just wasn't the right fountain pen for you but there is one um but it's not that you have to uh but using one pen doesn't mean that and not liking it doesn't mean that the brand the

'''Brad Dowdy:''' category wouldn't work for you very fair point and i totally agree with that so one good thing about all the variety of things that we talk about is maybe you'll hear something one day that clicks and you maybe you'll have an opportunity to test something out before you buy it right so you can take in that information say oh maybe this other pen seems kind of interesting so when i have the opportunity i might test it out and see if i can buy it and maybe it maybe that's a fountain pen maybe it's a pencil you know maybe it's who knows but yeah i think that's a very good point by you

'''Myke Hurley:''' and carol asks i'm an artist and i'm transitioning for at koinor uh whoa from a koinor four by zero you want me to you want me to take this yeah i need you to help i know what

'''Brad Dowdy:''' translate this for me so it's it's a rapidograph right so the koinor rapidograph is a yeah so i'm explaining to you it's essentially an engineering pen where it has a very fine sharp needle in in carol's case uh 0.018 it's teeny tiny it's a pipe and these pipes out of these pens are completely flat with no rollerball in them okay so just think of it as this very needly type of deal and they use a very specific ink um to write with so very tiny very fine so carol says i'm an artist transitioning from that koinor rapidograph other companies make this but it's all the similar type of pen uh roturing is another one transitioning to a platinum century 3776 uef which is the ultra extra fine that's a one that's a 0.1 millimeter tip fountain pen right so it says i go through quite a number of nibs on the koinor because they're very delicate they are they're very delicate they clog they get dirty you have to clean and manage them like a fountain pen you could not use them i've tried i've decided to try to uh use a fountain pen and inks as a replacement as well as the koinor nibs are very expensive and now very difficult to find so agree with all that my question is how durable is the platinum nib or other fountain pen nibs in relation to technical pen nibs can i expect the wear from constant use and drawing cause the nib to wear away especially on the uef or the extra extra extra fine nibs i'm having mark back as grind me some custom needlepoint nibs to match the rapidograph can i expect that i may wear these down similar to what occurs on the rapidograph nib i appreciate your advice this is an awesome question like this is right up my alley even though i have to say i don't have a very like factual answer is so far above my pay grade this one this is right in my wheelhouse except i haven't tested this right so my thought would be your steel needlepoint nibs uefs triple extra fine are going to hold up better than the technical nibs gold nibs like the platinum you might have more variance in those nibs because they're softer and while they may not wear down you might have the tines go a little bit wonky depending on your hand pressure so right it's the i think the gold nibs are going to be a little bit more sensitive to hand pressure than the steel nibs but i like the steel nibs needle points i think would last longer than the technical nibs right they're not going to wear down like as far as like oh you're going to you know round out the nib because you use it so much it's not going to be like that but like the gold nib could become misaligned right you're not going to have that um like a technical nib is a round tube right the uef nib has a tine in the middle so there's movement between the tines i'm doing a little thing with my fingers as i'm talking right now so there's there's movement between the tines right there that over time those tines could get misaligned and i think that would tend to happen more with a uef gold nib than like a needlepoint steel nib it's just going to be firmer finer i think big picture general terms you're going to have better luck long term with the needlepoint fountain pen nibs than you are with the technical nib pins they're also going to be easier to clean those technical nib pins are not easy to clean so i i love this question that's why i put it in there because i've used all of these pins but i haven't done that type of comparison which i think is pretty cool so that's these are my general thoughts on what i think would happen having used both of these types of pins i don't think the fountain pens are going to be as fragile except the gold ones might they might have a little more maintenance with with the tine alignment so i think you might get a

'''Myke Hurley:''' little bit more variation all right did you write all that down yeah man i'm on it okay so you know for next time when i'm not here i can definitely give that answer i'm sure i'll remember all of it

'''Brad Dowdy:''' okay should we do any more today uh let's wrap it here today we have because we probably have about 10 more to go so we'll save those for next week knock some of those out i apologize if i'm a little bit slow in getting to your answers but when you get questions as awesome as these i want to make sure make sure they get in there we want to try to answer them all so though this is great thank you

'''Myke Hurley:''' everyone for sending them in yep and if you do have questions you can set out a tweet with the hashtag rstpa and it will get included or you can email them directly to hello at penaddict.com and we can pick them up there if they're longer than a tweet or two if you want to find show notes you can go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 409 uh you can go also there's a link there in the show notes which you can find on the website or in your show or your podcast player of choice to become a relay fm member we've got tons of great benefits for you there help support the show as well uh talking about support thanks to expressvpm pen chalet and hello for their support of this show by sponsoring and thank you most of all for listening you can find brad online he is at dowdyism on twitter at penaddict on instagram and you can follow along with brad's twitch streams tuesdays thursdays 10 a.m eastern you got anything coming up this week or next week brad that you want to talk about

'''Brad Dowdy:''' um probably next week i'm going to have a big unboxing of all kinds of stuff i tend to do a lot of unboxings i've had a lot of packages come in so that's what we've been on a kick on

'''Myke Hurley:''' uh here recently people love unboxings uh i am i mike i am yke on social stuff if you want to follow along there you can we'll be back next time until then say goodbye brad goodbye brad you

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