Editing The Pen Addict 729/transcript (section)

== Pocket Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' To me, if I want, like, they call this a pocket pen, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I figure, to me, like, pocket is, like, small. Like, they took all of the length and just put it into width. Like, it doesn't feel pocketable to me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's like putting a baseball in your pocket. Oh, I love the petrol one, though. Whoa, baby. It's sick. This pen rules.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, if you buy this pen and buy it in petrol, I forgive you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. You know? I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it, but the greater you. I love how they have the images with the cap posted. I don't think they have any writing images. I mean, they're showing it posting. Are they? Do they write with it posted? I see there's a picture of them showing, like, a little gif that's showing the hand posting it. Oh, yeah. I guess you can post it. But that's not going to feel balanced. No, no, no, no. So I'm looking at the writing ones, and no one has this posted. No one's using it posted.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No. It's very funny that they have the, like, they're showing, like, this is how you can fill it, right? And you can use the Schmidt P8-126. So that's pretty cool. Short cartridge. Or the terrible mini Kaweco converter. Yeah, this thing sucks. Where the plunger is, like, you can fold the plunger, right, in the Kaweco one, but they're just showing it fully extended.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's the perfect converter for this. Again, it's a genius idea that's just terrible in practice. Kind of like this pen. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like that it exists for people that really like Kawecos and just want a converter, right? Like, you have it, and they made a clever thing to make it work. Sure. But again, like, you can see it. Like, this pen, you should be using it in the eyedropper mode. Like, that's the point. If you're not doing that, I don't know why. But yeah, look, I don't like this pen, but I respect it. And I love Nemisu.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So good luck to them. It's great. I'm going to tag this on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I guess not. I was going to say tag it on the platinum, some platinum conversation we want to have. But why don't we talk about our good friends at Red Pen Chalet first? Because it's actually a longer conversation. I kind of caught myself there.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I actually want to talk about a pen I just reviewed, and that's the Novalor Original Plus. So Novalor just came out with some new colors of their original. So there's a Novalor Original, and that's a piston filler. So this is your, you know, kind of midpoint price range, clear barrel, color finials, kind of, you know, TWSBI-esque style, you know, where the center is clear. And so this is a piston filler. It's called the Original. And then the one that I recently reviewed is called the Original Plus, and it's a vacuum filler. But it's the same kind of theory. It's the same essential, essentially the same pen build, and it feels really good. These are really nice pens. I'd honestly go out to say, like, underrated pens, which doesn't happen much these days, given, like, all the price increases, which we're going to talk about later.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're really good quality. I enjoy them. This is one of those pens, when you pick it up, kind of like when I pick up my Lamy Safari, it makes me smile, because something about it feels right in my hand. And that goes for the Original or the Original Plus, whether you want. They just released a bunch of new colors in the piston one, which is the original. So they just did some, like, violet and blue ones. They did some full transparent, like, where the full body is, like, all green, all blue.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And both of those styles just came out in the piston fill, but I got the Original Plus, which you can also get at Penn Chalet. And I could not recommend it more highly. It's one of those pens I wanted to, like, circle back on, because I reviewed it a few years ago when it came out, and I was impressed. And I always like to go back and see, you know, if those things continue as time moves on. That also goes for the Lamy LX, Myke. I didn't know the LX still existed. So they made one a few years ago. I think it was called Maroon. That wasn't Maroon. That was Maroon. It was kind of like a brown. Maroon. But Maroon. So the LX is basically your upgraded All-Star. Yeah. So they've taken the aluminum barrel All-Star and added, like, metal finials. They added a colorized, like, in this case, matching clip. So it's just like a fancied up. They gave you the black nib with the gold trim on it, right? So it's just kind of like the All-Stars upscale model, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Did we talk about this one last week?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We did when they released it, but I haven't seen them for sale yet. So they just came out, and they're now available over at our Friends at Penn Chalet. So, yeah, go check those out, and then go check out some of the inks to fill these pens up with. So they carry some of my favorite brands of inks, like Wearing Old, Dominant, and they do some really cool, unique in-store, or store-exclusive, I should say, ink colors. So go check those out.

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