Editing The Pen Addict 232/transcript (section)

== Custom Pens ==


'''Anna:''' Uh, so question number two, wow, there's six questions. She wasn't joking. Uh, Brad, since knock is now in retail, will you and Jeff be doing any collaborations or blue label products? Yes. We are already trying to prototype for next year. We want to do something for the Atlanta pen show. We don't know exactly what that is yet, but we're playing around with a few things. You probably saw something in our Instagram, um, last week that we've been playing around with. Um, we don't know if it's going to work or not, but, uh, yeah, we're always going to be making stuff. Even if we're, someone's making, um, retail items for us, we're always going to be making and expand. We have to expand the blue label stuff. Actually, this will give us the freedom to do that. All right. Number three, Myke, what pen and nib combo do you have that you think best shows off the properties of Fuyugaki?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Um, I'm going to say it's the, I think it's going to be the sailor pro gear. Like I think it just does a really excellent job. Um, I have the gold nib. Uh, I think it's a medium.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I feel like that does a really good job with it. I mean, I think that the pro gear, probably anything that you put in it is going to do a great job. Um, but there is also something about using my orange pen with the orange ink. Exactly. That's what I was going to say. It matches too. Yeah.

'''Anna:''' That makes it show up better. It's, it's no joke. It appears better with an orange pen. All right. So number four, this is for both of us and we're, we're off the reservation here. What's your favorite movie? You go first.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, like my favorite ever movie. This is where I really struggle with this. So I'm really bad at picking a favorite movie. What I can do is tell you a small selection of movies that I keep on my iPad all the time because I'll come watch them anytime and I'm fine. Uh, Scott Pilgrim versus the world. Godfather one and two.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Goodfellas and Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross.

'''Anna:''' Nice. That's a great selection. I mean, that's some top tier stuff. My favorite movie all time is train spotting. Um, I never get tired of that. I watch it all the time and, you know, I have all the, the additions and the books and, you know, the 20th anniversary commentary and all that stuff. The movie I keep on my, my iPhone so I can watch it anytime as a movie called control, which is the story of joy division. What a surprise. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I could have picked that for you. I think.

'''Anna:''' Yeah. Yeah. So those are my, probably my two favorite movies. Um, very, both very, very, um, British, Scottish, musically inclined dark movies. Um, that's kind of my, my personal genre. So yeah, there's, um, while those movies have nothing to do with each other, they're actually quite similar in story. Yeah. If you will.

'''Anna:''' All right. So number five, is there a custom maker out there that you would suggest someone who wants a custom pen, but doesn't want to order strictly by just looking online? Is there a custom maker who does a lot of pen shows so I can try them first? Jonathan Brooks. Yeah. Um, that's, he does stuff that's not online all the time. Like he doesn't have, I don't check his store all the time because it doesn't ever seem to have all the stuff on there. Maybe he's changing that, but it shows he always has something killer. And even if you find a material in a different shape, you know, like the shape of the pen you like, does it match the material you like? That's something he can do. So you can always try something from Jonathan. Um, hopefully he'll be in Atlanta this year. Um, so you should be able to see him cause you better be coming to the Atlanta pen show this year. Do you, do you have any other suggestion on that? Or you, I feel that's like, uh, I'm, I'm pretty happy with that answer.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Jonathan is exactly who I would have suggested.

'''Anna:''' Yeah. Yep. So last question, who do you think makes the prettiest nibs? Do you have an opinion?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No.

'''Anna:''' So I would say sailor would be my favorite. Mont Blanc might make the best, the most prettiest nibs. Um, of which I don't really own any, but like one standard small nib for Mont Blanc. Um, but some of their specialty nibs, like their, um, what do you call it? Special editions, limited editions. Those nibs are, are crazy good on stock kind of gold nibs. I love sailors. Sailor's nibs are great. All right. Awesome. Awesome letter. Thank you. Hot cup of loving. Yeah. Thanks so much. She was still listening. All right. So what do we got here?

'''Myke Hurley:''' We got here. Rifling through those papers over there.

'''Anna:''' I am. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Um, wow. Some wonderful handwriting on this. Do not bend. We have, um, wax seal. Oh, this one's on a card.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, wow.

'''Anna:''' This is a whole big deal over there. This is from Adam. This is like, um, is this from page stationary? This card, that's real neat little card with a pipe on it. It's nice. This from Adam, um, with his nice, uh, wax seal. does love the pod at podcast. Thank you for always pointing, uh, putting out great content weekly. Two questions. What was your best slash worst pin purchase? So we get that one a lot. Um, best pin purchased. Hmm.

'''Anna:''' Hmm. Um, these are hard questions because I never think about it that way. Um, Oh, JBK. I do love Donnie Darko. I will say that, um, for the movie thing. They're talking about me in the chat room now. Best, worst pin purchase. Gosh, dog.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You can't think of the best. Like, what are you, what are you considering this from?

'''Anna:''' Just thinking of, I have, I'm thinking I have too much stuff. So it's a difficult thing. My best is my first Nakaya. I think that's the best because that pin has remained the best. Like there's so much went into the purchasing of that pin and for it to actually deliver and exceed my expectations. That has to be the best. Okay. Um, worst is hard because I tend to avoid things that I don't think I would like. I mean, nothing's like completely failed me. We talk about the Lamy 2000, how it had to have nib work done to be like a writing pen that I really enjoy. But I don't necessarily have a worst, uh, purchase. Do you have anything for either of these categories? All right. The worst is the Oto dude. That's a horrible pin. Yeah. Do you remember that? Oh yeah. I'll remember that. Cause that's one of the, uh, one of the, I think I did an article years ago about the top five worst pins I've ever reviewed. I think that was number one. I think it was the worst.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The Oto dude is horrific.

'''Anna:''' Yeah. Except I didn't pay for it. So I didn't actually purchase you. You, you did. And it's just trash tastic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So someone in the chat room said the vision air, but that's not, that doesn't count because I knew it was bad before I bought it. You bought it purposefully to, to see just how bad it was going to be. Exactly. So actually it ended up being a great purchase because it provided me with endless entertainment. Right. Yeah. That's a great purchase. And it's like, I bring that thing. I bring that thing to pen shows. People want to see it. I think out of all of my pens that I own, that's the one that people want to see the most. I'm not even kidding. People that come up to me at the Atlanta has happened many times. We're like, do you have to vision air? So yeah, I'll go to the vision.

'''Anna:''' Yep. Yep. I totally agree. All right. So I think of my best now.