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== Fountain Pen Recommendation ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Der Kommissioner wants to know if there's any recommendations for a starter fountain pen for an 11-year-old. My niece has a birthday soon and she likes to draw and write. I was thinking a simple cartridge pen like Pilot Kakuno, Pelican Pelicano, or Kaweco Sport. So I would scratch the Sport off the list first and go with either the Kakuno, the Pelicano, and I'd add in the Pilot Metropolitan. If you think she's really going to get into it, I would look at one of the TWSBI Ecos because those are just super fun to use and look at. But that takes a little bit more. Are you going to trust an 11-year-old with a bottle of ink and not making a mess? Things like that. That's why you're thinking cartridge pen here.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want to suggest a Lamy ABC in that too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Yeah, that's a cool pen. I've always liked that wooden barrel. I like that style. But if I had to pick just from the list, I'm a hardcore Pilot Kakuno fan. Love those pens. Kakuno's great. But the Pelicano gets a lot of love too. So pick one of those two. You can't go wrong.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' SideRose says, My friend and fellow penatic Austin has gotten me into Destiny 2. And I think you need to start a Destiny 2 notebook. And I think I need to start a Destiny 2 notebook to keep track of everything. I popped in on Twitch and saw you playing. And wanted to know if Stationery plays a role in your D2 experience. So yes, I play Destiny when I'm not streaming about Stationery. I'm streaming Destiny 2 most of the time. And that takes up most of the hours of content, honestly, when I do stream. So I'm going to try to stream tomorrow, by the way. Thursday, October the 4th. And I haven't been using a notebook for Destiny because they do a pretty good job at allowing you to see what you have going in the screen. But it is getting a little bit overwhelming. And I should because all the other games I play, I've always used notebooks. Which it's funny. That's why I put this question in here. Because I actually do use notebooks. Like when I played World of Warcraft, I probably played it heavily for five or six years. I'd write down all the formula recipes that I needed to make different potions. And what materials I needed to collect. And I would write all this stuff down. Or if I needed to build some piece of gear or things like that. I'd write all these things down that I need to collect.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I do that when we play Study Valley. Absolutely. Because we kind of lose track of what our objectives are. So I have to start writing down in a notebook. So then I can remember later on where to go back to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely. So it's kind of like you don't think those things go hand in hand. But I know a lot of video gamers log things in notebooks. And I've actually shared some links like in Missville. Like I remember this link just a few weeks ago where I shared this guy's notebooks from the 80s. Where he like wrote down all these maps and mazes and puzzles and was solving everything. So it kind of helps to have a notebook and a piece of paper. And I keep one by my console in case I do want to write anything down. But I haven't written them for Destiny 2. But I do find myself going back to the director a lot to find out what I need to do. So I need to implement that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sith and Sense says, Would it be weird if I gave a professor a better red pen to grade my work? I wasn't impressed by the waxy, globby red mark in my homework. Yes, you should give your professor a better pen. And you don't even have to. I mean, you could do it completely on the stealth, right? They wouldn't even have to know. I'd start with something like the Pilot Sign Pen. Or the Paper Mate Flare. Which are the more marker style pens. You know, with like the felt tips. You know, they're very good for like marking up papers. Or I would use like a Pentel Inner Gel red gel ink pen. And I just like buy one or two of each of those. And just leave them on their desk. And see if they, you know, they may not get the hint. They may just go, oh, new pen I can grade with. And then later on you can drop the bomb on them. Say, hey, thanks for the F, buddy. At least you're using a better pen now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I guess if you give them the pen, you could buy a second one. And if you need to change the grade.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Ah, true. Right? True.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You've got the right ink. You can just, I don't know if that's how it works. But, you know, go for it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yep. So here's the question I was referring to earlier, Myke. So Crane RXN realizes there are price differences. But if you can only buy one, which do you go for? The Pelican M600 Vibrant Orange. The Pelican M800 Stone Garden. Or the Sailor 1911 Key Lime. Assume they all look as good as you could hope. Asking for a friend. Winky face. We kind of, you probably know our answers by now. But do you want to take a stab at this? What are you going to do out of this list? Even though there's a huge price range between these three pens. If you could just pick one of the three, which one are you going with?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. But there's a spanner in the works with this question. Uh-oh. Which is assume they all look as good as you could hope. Now. I think they do. Well, but then I would want the Key Lime. But I don't think it's as bright and vivid as I want it to be. So, you know, if it was as bright and vivid. Like, if it was to green that the tangerine was to orange, then I would want it. But I don't think that's what it is. Right? So, I mean, if it was as good as I wanted them to be, that's what I would go for. But considering everything that I think that I know, I would go for the M800 Stone Garden.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. And myself, I'd go for the Vibrant Orange. The Stone Garden doesn't speak to me, even though I think it's a really, really pretty pen. Like, they did a good job with that. But not all of the Pelican Limited Editions, like the marble one they did last year. Like, that one didn't speak to me. But they do such a good job. They sell them really well. I would pick the orange out of this list. I'm interested to see what you think about the Key Lime now that you've said this. You might like it more than I like it. But I'm interested to see, you know, now that our vision's been a little bit skewed. So, I'm picking Vibrant Orange. Myke's picking Stone Garden. And he's holding out hope that the Key Lime might be something that it's probably not. But, yeah. So, we helped you none there, Todd. We helped you zero. Jagen wants to know, what is a good pen, not a mechanical pencil, as it's on Tomoe River, that is good for use with thin stencils? That is one that is thin enough to work with a stencil that doesn't allow for a huge pen tip. So, the first one that came to mind is the Oto Graphic Liner. So, it is a needle tip arc pen, if you will. It goes down to 0.3 millimeters. There's the line. It's a liquid ink pen. So, it might smear a little bit now that I think about it on the Tomoe. Because it won't dry immediately. Outside of that, Rotring does make a drawing pen that has a metal lining under the felt tip. The plastic tip, I should say. So, that's good to use against rulers. I'll have to put that link in the show notes. One of the Rotring drafting pens. They're kind of expensive for what they are. They're like $4 or $5 each for what's essentially a disposable pen. But, if you're looking for a very specific use case, that might fit. Those are the first two that I thought of. And I love the Graphic Liner. It's a pen I don't use enough. But, it's really, really good quality. And it will hold up to that stencil. And, surprisingly, that Rotring will too.