Editing The Pen Addict 50/transcript (section)

== Pen Cap ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's really well done. I like, like if the cap was the same color as the barrel, I would have never bought it. Right? Like if it was a fully blue striped pen. Too much. Yeah. That would be too much. But the cap is solid black. The piston filler at the end is black. It, it's, it's really, it, I said about it in my original review. Everything about this pen is just right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a, it's one of those pens that's just flawless in build and construction and feel. I mean, it's, it's spot on everything. So, and it was also the most expensive pen I bought. It was, it was new. It's got a 14 karat gold nib. So that's expensive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I knew going into it, I kind of sort of budgeted for one if I could find one. So it was the last thing I bought. I had enough money left for it. And I think I would have regretted not coming home with one of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I'm thrilled that I did. And I love writing with this pen. And I think I'm just going to get it a little bit finer just to kind of fit my writing style a little bit better.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So you're going to send that one off to my C&M?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yeah. I'm going to use it a little bit more. You know, I've loaded up with ink. I've enjoyed writing with it. I'm going to write with it for a little bit. Just make sure what I really want to do. Because it's really fun to write with it. It's so smooth. But I think it's just a little bit too wide. So I will send that one off more likely than not to get fine-tuned a little bit. But, you know, those are the four pens I bought. I am extraordinarily pleased with all of them. So I think the show was a huge success for me personally in the pens. I also picked up like four, maybe four or five bottles of ink. I'll be doing some ink reviews. Ink's a great thing to pick up at a pen show because you don't get killed on shipping charges because that's a heavy thing to ship. So I got some really good deals on ink from the Andersons and from a couple other vendors there. I bought, yeah, I think four bottles of ink. Just some smaller bottles of things I wanted to try, mostly blues. I bought Mont Blanc, Midnight Blue, Platinum Blue Black.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's a company called Scribble Workshop that is basically just a guy making his own inks, kind of like how Noodler started. And I'm going to try that. So a few different things. You'll be seeing some more reviews of just some side items I picked up. But it was a long day. I got out of there about 4 o'clock. I got there about 9.45. I got out of there about 4 o'clock.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But it was well worth it. I was worn out by the time I was done. I'll tell you that. It was a long drive home because I was like, whew, all right, I'm tired. But it was hard. I couldn't wait to get home because then I could finally start, you know, using these pens, get them inked up, get them cleaned up. But I found when I got home that night, I didn't want anything to do with pens. I needed a break for a little while.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, you know, I chilled out for a while, let the pens sit. And then later on that night, about 1 o'clock in the morning, you saw a tweet from me about 1 o'clock in the morning. I said, okay. The things I start at 1 a.m., that's when I finally got all the pens out and got them all cleaned up and got them all inked and ready to use. So, it was a fun show, highly successful. And, you know, I'd like to say I wish I could do it every month, but I couldn't afford that. So, I'm already ready for next year, though.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I really want to go to a pen show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm pretty sure there's a London pen show, isn't there?

'''Myke Hurley:''' There is, but it isn't until October.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Ah, gotcha. But I will wait. You'll have to make that happen, though. You'll have to go.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I've just put it in my calendar.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I will definitely go to the one in October this year. If anybody knows of any that are not necessarily in London but local-ish to London before then, let me know on Twitter or email or something. I'd love to go because I'm so jealous of you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's a really great experience, and it's a really great learning experience. You know, I'm still a novice in the world of fountain pens, and the things you can pick up just from going and talking to someone like Brian and Lisa Anderson or Myke Masuyama or any other vendors that I talk to. You know, just the things you pick up and just kind of add on to your knowledge base are invaluable at a show like this, and it's well worth it even if you don't purchase anything. You can go and look at everything and learn about the history to some of these pens, why they were made this way, how you can make them better. And everyone is very, very helpful and willing to answer a bunch of questions from novices like myself. So it's just a way to build on that knowledge, and it was very, very fun. I had a wonderful time. I'm ecstatic with all of my purchases. You know, four pens, you wouldn't think is a lot, but, you know, I can only use one pen at a time, so I'm like anxious. You know, I'm switching them up. I've been using one per day is kind of how I'm going through them. I used the Lamy 2000 two days ago. I used all day. I used the Edison Pearl yesterday, so now I'll pick one of the other ones to use all day today. So just kind of give them a good rotation and see how I'm liking them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Awesome.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep, so you definitely need to get to a pen show one day.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I mean, because I've put a bid on this, you know, I've put a bid on one of these vacuumatics. But I'm not going to know what it's like until it arrives. Right. And that's the problem. Like, I'm not going to know if the color is exactly the same. I'm not going to know if I'd like the nib. I might hate the nib and then just keep it. I mean, but so that's, you know, so I'll be taking a risk on this just because I think it would be something beautiful to add to the collection. Right. Right. But really, I would like to go and, one, try these things out, but also find something myself, you know? Find a pen or something really beautiful or something really quirky on my own, like about, you know, you finding it and then me copying it. You know? Just so I go and I make my own discoveries because that's what you did. Exactly. You didn't really consider or know too much about the vacuumatic, you said, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, not at all. And you've come across this thing. I mean, I heard about them and I'd seen them, but yeah, no, it wasn't on the radar.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And you said that it's probably the most beautiful pen you've ever seen, right?