Editing The Pen Addict 88/transcript (section)

== Vintage Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' He also says he wants to try at least 20 new inks and buy something vintage, like a VAC or a 51. And I think that's a good move.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Myke, the man doesn't buy enough vintage already.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. I know. I know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Toffer. Make me an offer. His resolution is to destroy my notebooks more, not with fire. When he did that last year? No. Around last year, around New Year's, he took all his old notebooks that he'd filled and burnt them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't remember that. I feel like I would have blanked that out of my brain.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That was his way to cleanse. He took all these old thoughts in his notebook, notebooks. I mean, it's like stacks of notebooks. He's throwing them in like a fire, like a chimney, like a little fire pit thing. And to start fresh, he torched them. Wow. So, I mean, I thought that was good. So, he's going to work on that this year.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Susan Piggott. She has a pen and paper resolution. To practice her penmanship, mine is still horrible, she says. And I've seen hers. It is not horrible like yours. You need to practice yours, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, yes, yes. Whatever. No.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. Did you see, we saw that link Thomas shared where a left-handed overrider is just putting us all to shame in her penmanship. I forget the name, but it was on Fountain Pen Network. That was fascinating to see.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I'll find that. Was that today?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yesterday. Yesterday. We'll share that link in the show notes. Go check out this handwriting. It's pretty impressive to use a left-handed overrider using a flex pen. Pilot Namiki Falcon. And it's just really, really good handwriting. And that's pretty much it. I mean, you know, I got lots of other ones. Sorry if I didn't read everyone's, but it's a lot of common things. You know, use the things we have. Use the things we have better.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And, you know, lots of, you know, getting into vintage pens or getting, you know, something classic like Alami 2000, things like that. So it's been awesome. Awesome to read all these things. And I really appreciate everyone chiming in. And it was fun to see some of the extreme ones like Mr. Thornborrows and some of the other ones too. Some of the other wishlist items that helped me add to my wishlist as well. So thank you all very much for helping us out with this episode.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Agreed. We love it when you guys get in touch with this stuff. So much appreciated.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So are we done for this week's episode?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. And I was just going to say best of luck with all the resolutions and the wishlist items for 2014. I know we'll be following up on it later in the year. See how we're all doing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Indeed we will. If you want to catch up with us online, there's a few ways you can do it. Brad writes over at penaddict.com. You can find his pen cases over at knockco.com. It's knockco.com, isn't it? Yep. N-O-C-K-C-O.com. Got it. Still waiting. I know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. We sent out an update this week. We're going to be a little bit delayed.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nice. That was a nicely written, nicely worded update, by the way.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, thanks. I appreciate that. It was hard to write. It's not something you want to write. But I think that level of transparency is a must, in my opinion. So that's the things I believe in. And so I'm going to live by that as well. And even if it's writing things that you don't want to necessarily write, that's the way we operate. So we'll be a couple weeks, a few weeks maybe behind our normal January schedule for shipping. But just know that we're working hard on getting all that stuff out. So you will get your cases, that's for sure.