Editing The Pen Addict 232/transcript (section)

== Pilot Pen ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' This is that, that's, this is, that is really difficult because like I have my favorites. I think, I think it's going to have to be the pilot M90. Oh yeah.

'''Anna:''' I forgot about that already. Yeah. That's a great pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I use that every day.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love this pen, but it's just because it was the combination of a long search for it. Right. And, you know, buying it from Thomas was, was an amazing way to kind of cap that. And I absolutely love this pen and I'm proud of myself that I do use it every day, you know, because this is a pen that would have been real easy to just display.

'''Anna:''' Yes. Right. Right. Right. But that's not what it's made for. I mean, if there's anything that design calls for that design calls for, let's go, let's use this pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And it is just, perfect. I love it. I love everything about this pen. And I cannot believe pilot don't make this. It boggles my mind that they do not have a standard version of this pen. It absolutely just boggles my mind because it's in every single way, one of the best pens I've ever owned. The size of it, like the, the weight of it, the balance of it, and just the design. It's one of the most beautiful designs. Like, I can't believe there is an A pen that is sold that looks like this.

'''Anna:''' They could charge whatever they wanted for it too.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You could, you could charge $600 for this pen and people will buy it. Yeah. Because, yeah, it really, truly boggles my mind, especially now, like, imagine this, but friction fit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So there's no lip on it. That's the only thing. It's like, there's that lip on it, right? Where the cap clips in. Imagine that friction fit, just this solid one piece thing, right? They just, you just really make a great seal, like a kind of invisible seal, which is possible to do. It would just be,

'''Myke Hurley:''' there would be nothing, nothing could come near it. Nothing could come near it.

'''Anna:''' Yeah. Tony's pointing out the E95 S, which is, has the same shape and the same click, but it's got that plastic barrel and the nibs not integrated. I mean, I love the E95. I have one. It's killer. It's not the same. No, that's not the same, but people who want that, people who want that style of pen, that's the best they're going to do. Unless they're going secondary market market.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. The nib, there's a seam, right? The thing that makes this so beautiful is that the nib is made of the barrel. Right. Right. Like it is one and the same.

'''Anna:''' Yep. All right. Adam's got one more question. He says, I love my cron dash 849 when I need a ballpoint, which I agree. That's a great ballpoint. Any pen suggestions for similar look, feel and refill. So if you want to stick on that reef, that ballpoint refill side of the ledger, the Schmidt 9000 M, I think is a better refill than the, what do they call the eight 49s? The gigantic or the monster. It's got some, some refill name like that. Um, it's a great refill. I love it. The Schmidt, I think is a little bit better in my mind. Um, for a pen, you can get the retro 51 tornado slims. They come with that. And I think that's a very comparable to the cron dash 849s Goliath. Thank you. Gentleman stationer, Joe in the chat room. Awesome chat room participation today. I know we went early, but maybe everyone's off today or at least everyone's slacking today, which I can appreciate. All right. So can we hit one more? What do we think?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Anna:''' One more. What do we got here? Oh goodness. Everything's falling. All right.

'''Anna:''' This one's from Heather. She has hash hashtag ask TPA right on the front of the envelope with a little smiley face. So I can get totally behind that. So let's see. Oh wow. Okay. So her handwriting is great, but what I'm oh wowing about is her stationary. This pad has a Parker quink ink bottle and box, like in the top corner of the pad. Like it's a stationary pad with that, uh, that little image on there. So that's very cool. It says, dear Mr. Dowdy. Hi, I love the podcast and website. I listen as I can, which is while at work or mowing the yard. So hopefully this note makes it to you in time. I have a fountain pen novice question about field notes. Lots of field notes questions, Myke. I wonder why. So this is a, this is a great question and I haven't read, but I'm looking at this next sentence. Am I using them incorrectly? My brother gave me a few three packs, snow blind, sweet tooth, and regular. I've been using them with fine and medium fountain pens and have noticed bleed through feathering, ghosting on some, but not others. Are field notes created equal? Do they all use the same weight of paper or some heftier than others? Any help is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Heather. So you've run into the issue that a lot of us fountain pen users have. Field notes are not all created equally. In fact, field notes are created differently. Nearly every single time. Yep. You got probably two of the, you probably got three of the worst additions to use fountain pens in, which is regular sweet tooth and snow blind. There's a couple that are worse, but there's some that are so good for fountain pens. So what you're looking for with field notes is they always lay out the specs. You want to start with the ones that say 70 pound paper on them. Yep. So they actually changed their regular stock from 50 pound weight paper to 70. 60, but still it's not quite as good as some of the 70 pound paper, which you'll find in this new edition, um, black ice. So for example, that'll be a good one. Um, the lunacy edition, I think has, um, does it have 70? It might have 60. I'll have to check. So that's where you want to start because they are definitely not all created equal. Some of the papers are 70.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Anna:''' So some, they're starting to change. They're not putting, if you noticed a trend here, Myke, they are starting to change a little bit in the paper quality. Yep. Um, you also noticed, which I forgot to mention when we did, um, when we were talking about black ice, that the, the base price has gone up, uh, or has stayed the same as the previous edition. They're now 12, 95, a three pack instead of nine 95, right? Yep. We knew that was coming. That had to come. There's, we kept, we've said for years, I don't know how they can afford this. So the last two additions now have been a new price point, which is completely fair.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I think what it's doing is allowing them to be even more creative.

'''Anna:''' Right. Like we've, we've said for years, we didn't know how they were doing it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nope.

'''Anna:''' So, so Heather, there is absolutely a difference. Start with any edition where the paper lists itself as 70 pound paper. Um, you still may, you're fine in medium nibs should work fine in most of those. There's going to be a couple where the papers finished differently. So not only is there different weights of paper, there's different finishes on the paper. So not everything's going to be the same, but you can find a couple of really good additions. I have a feeling this current one, black ice is going to be a good, good fountain pen friendly paper. So check that one out.

'''Anna:''' All right. So, um, let's do one more. Cause it's a postcard and it's a short one. Then I'll leave some of the longer ones for next time. Okay. Sounds good. Time for last one. Yeah. This is from, this is from Joel. He sent me a cool, uh, postcard, um, from science fiction, monkey planet, planet of the apes. It's like a book. It's like an old penguin book cover. It's a very cool postcard. So let's see. Myke and Brad as collectors of writing instruments. I assume you guys write all the time. Is that accurate? What kind of writing makes up the majority of what you do? Journaling, letter writing, lists, short stories. I used to collect guitars, amps, and pedals. At one point, I felt generally like I didn't play enough to justify the amount of gear I owned. Have either of you ever experienced this with pens? Looking forward to hearing your review of that book on handwriting. Yeah. I need to email Andrew back. Don't I keep up the good work, Joel? So what do you think, Myke? Do you ever feel guilty for owning all this stuff and just of having to justify using it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes.

'''Anna:''' Yeah. I think that's fair. Yeah. I don't necessarily feel guilty. Yeah. But all the time, but a lot of time, yeah, I totally feel guilty.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I feel guilty when I'm faced with more than usual. So looking at my desk right now, I have like nine of my most expensive pens in a dudek block, a bunch of field notes, two of my custom acrylic pens just sitting there, one on a pen rep, one on a stand. That is totally fine. That's standard desk. When I opened that wardrobe over there a couple of days ago and took all that stuff out and put it in boxes and looked at just how much dead tree was just in my home. Yeah, I felt bad.

'''Anna:''' Yeah, I do have some guilt from time to time about how much stuff I actually have. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' At some point with my field notes collection, as I mentioned, I want to make a video out of them at some point. When I do that, I'm going to siphon off the stuff that I'm going to sell or give away. Because I have too many. I have way too many of all of it. And I don't need as much as I have. Like I know that.

'''Anna:''' Yep.

'''Anna:''' Yep. I'm with you. I can't really argue with that. But just as to what do we write the most? I write notes and lists the most. I don't write stories or journals. But I mean, I'm always writing, you know, just constant, constant scribblings.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I'm notes and scribbles. Like notes and doodles. You know, I have a couple of shows where I just break out the cross field. And I just doodle the whole time.

'''Anna:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's what I use that for, by the way. Cross field, because I know you were surprised I picked it. It has two purposes in my life. It is my doodle pad and my new pen testing pad. Because it's flat out the most comfortable and nicest paper I own. Yep. So it's perfect for that.

'''Anna:''' That's what it should be used for. No, I thought it was a great pick because I didn't expect it. Yeah. It's wonderful.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Love that pad. Yeah. All right. That wraps up this week's episode. If you want to find our show notes for today, head on over to relay.fm slash pen addict slash 232. If you want to find Brad online, he's over at penaddict.com and at knock.co. He is on Twitter at dowdyism and he is on Instagram at penaddict. I am iMike, I-M-Y-K-E on all of them. You can find, I'm on YouTube as well. YouTube.com slash Myke Hurley. You can find my videos there. We spoke about it a couple of times, so I'm going to promote it. Thanks so much for listening. As always, thanks to our great sponsors this week, Pen Chalet, Dudek, Modern Goods, and Tom Bin. Go support our sponsors because that in turn helps support the show. Thank you for listening. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad.

'''Anna:''' Goodbye, Brad.

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