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== Nakaya Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' It says and Nakaya Portable Writer.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's like, oh my. Well, you know, let's see what this portable writer looks like. So the Nakaya Portable is the first Nakaya I bought. It's the longer, larger Nakaya. And I bought mine. Mine is a standard. It's not a writer. Writer means it has a clip. Okay. So mine is just a smooth barrel, no clip. This one is for the same model with a clip. And it's the solid black one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Not only that. But there's more. There's more. Not only that. There is. It's a ruthenium nib and clip. Which is extra. And it's silver colored. Right? It's a medium nib. Which I don't have.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And he bought it from nibsnot.com. So I know it came from a reputable vendor. And he just bought it in April. So it's like two or three months old. And if the pictures are any indication, he keeps these pens in perfect condition. So I've gone from enjoying my Franken-Christophe Model 19 saying, wow, this is a really great writing experience. I should find more large size pens. And see if I really like them. To about two hours later. I found this classified. That not only had one pen that is dead perfect fit for me. It's got a second pen that is a dead perfect fit for me. I mean, if the Nakaya had gold furniture, I wouldn't have bought it. If it had an extra fine nib, I probably wouldn't have bought it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, there are several things that would have made me not buy these pens. Or make an offer on these pens. But everything about these pens was exactly what I wanted. I was like, this post was made for me. Which is a problem. Because now, there's two pens. He wants 400 for the Pelican and 500 for the Nakaya. So I made him an offer. We haggled a little bit. And I bought him for less than. So he wanted 900 for the pair. I ended up getting for 850 shipped. So, the other thing that I was even looking. Is I did have some space credits too. To apply to this. So I was kind of shopping. But not really. Like, I knew if I found something, I would buy it. Because I had some money. Some play money. Some pen fund money.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What's space credits? I think we've mentioned this before. That's what you refer to your...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' My PayPal account.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so my PayPal account. That's kind of my pen fund.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So since I hadn't bought anything in a while. My pen fund had some money. I didn't have enough money to buy it all. So I did pay for some of it outside of space credits. So I made arrangements with this seller on a Tuesday. We finalized everything. Sent him to PayPal Tuesday morning. I had the pens in hand Friday afternoon when we recorded this show. I had just gotten them in like an hour before we recorded the show. But I could not be happier with both of these pens. It's one of those purchases that went so fast that, you know, I... I mean, I tried to do all my homework, right? And this is why, you know, from episode one of the Pen Addict, from blog post one of the Pen Addict blog, this has all been like a... I don't know, just like a culmination of knowledge, right? Your knowledge base just grows and grows. And you have things you can... You're constantly learning. You're constantly building off things. And you're learning how to discern what pens are a good fit for you. What pen would not be a good fit for you? What makes a pen a good purchase? Why would you buy an aftermarket pen? It's just this huge learning experience that culminates in something like a purchase like this, where I had, like, you know, two years ago, I would just have... I mean, number one, there's no way I would do this. I would spend this much money or go through with a, you know, a classified purchase on Fountain Pen Network. I would just be too nervous that I didn't know... So, not that I would get ripped off, but, like, I wouldn't really like the pen. But it's part of this whole education that I've been going through in these past years, where I can... I don't know, it just kind of comes to a head, and you can kind of determine how... You know, what you think. And you could still be wrong. There's still room for error. But I am ecstatic with both of these pen purchases.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's... The Nakaya, compared to my other portable, is completely different. I thought they were going to be very similar. But the added clip and the weight that it adds to that, it makes it almost two completely different pens. And it's actually a much larger pen with the clip on it. It's heavier, wider. And, Myke, these Nakaya nibs are ridiculous. It's so good. The medium nib, just right out the gate, it's perfection.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What are you trying to do to me, Daddy?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's really, really, really, really good. And then the Pelican has this... Pelican's design, as you could expect from a German engineered product, it's spot on everywhere. The weight, the feel, the balance, the looks, the way everything all works together. The EF nib, I wouldn't want anything larger, unless it was a stub. But it's so smooth and clean and crisp. It was just a perfect storm of events that led these pens to me. You know, any other day, any other time, you know, that I would be thinking about purchasing, you know, a larger pen, this wouldn't happen. It was just this randomness that made me think, this is a really interesting story because the way it happened. I mean, this all happened within the span of hours. Thinking that I want to try some larger pens and finding something available that was perfect for me, and then having the same guy have a second pen that was maybe even more perfect for me than the first one, and being able to get them both, and them both being unbelievably awesome on top of that, I was pretty happy. I've been a happy camper.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, what are these similar in size to?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's hard to say. I mean, I don't have anything similar in size to the M800 just because it's large. I mean, it's probably as long as the Franklin Kristoff, if not a little bit longer. It's much heavier, and it's much more dense.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The Nakaya feels more like the Franklin Kristoff, but it's also longer, but it's more lightweight like that Franklin Kristoff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. They're big pens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, they're large pens.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The image that you sent last week, which I've also put in the show notes so people can see that secret image that was intended for the chat room, they don't show that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, it does not. There's no comparable size. There's no scale. You know what? I'll take a picture of the 205, and I'll tweet it out tonight. You have the 205 that you have. You have a 205, right? Yeah. Yeah, because you have the lines one too that you use, but I'll tweet it out just for a size comparison for some standard pens so you can get a view. But it was just, I don't know. It was strange. It was like a fate type of thing. It was very weird. It's not something that I would normally do, just go out and spend that much money on a whim, but it was one of those things I couldn't pass up, and the timing of it was impeccable. So I'm a happy camper. I will say that. Those are the only two pens I've been using since I've gotten them, so my other pens are jealous.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, dear.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's not just the listeners that you affect.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah. I'm sorry, man. But I wanted to tell that story because, like, I forget who said it. It might have been Shireen in the chat. She says, oh, no, it's Tech Relic. Now, this is addict behavior, Brad. We support you, man. I do. I feel like a junkie when I tell a story like this. I was like, it was like a high, right? It was, you know, it, I don't know. It was just the perfect storm of events that happened. It'll probably never happen again. You know, I don't troll, you know, the fountain pen classifieds all day because I don't have, you know, all the money in the world to buy whatever pops up on there, so you try not to be. But when something pops up like this, I was ready, and I'm happy that I was. So that's my story.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a good story.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And I'm sticking to it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think that just about does it for this week's episode of the Pen Addict podcast. If you'd like to catch up with the links that we've discussed today, you can go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 118. I'd like to, again, thank our sponsors for this week's episode, Pen Chalet, Squarespace, and Igloo. Remember, this show does record live. We record live on typically Tuesdays, but for the next few weeks it's going to be on Mondays. So that you can take a look at relay.fm slash schedule. But we do record at 10.30 London time, 2.30 Pacific time, and 5.30 Eastern time. And the next recording will be on Monday until we tell you otherwise. If you'd like to catch up with us online, I am at imike, I-M-Y-K-E on Twitter, and Brad is at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M, and he writes over at thepenaddict.com. So we'll be back next week with another episode of the Pen Addict podcast. Until then, thanks so much for listening. Say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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