Editing The Pen Addict 82/transcript (section)

== Anderson Pens Podcast ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool. Well, um, you know, I think, uh, we, we kept this show short purposefully today cause I'm not feeling so hot, but I think we covered a lot of good topics. It was like, uh, it was like the pen addict, uh, news of the day episode. I kind of like it sometimes, you know, to, to kind of catch up on some topics we've mentioned in passing and things like that. I did have one more, one more quick thing. And, um, not that anyone out there cares, but me, but, uh, my, uh, my nibmeister of choice, Myke Masuyama. Uh, I got the email yesterday that he is, his move is complete. He's back at work and he's taking, uh, taking orders at this time. So, uh, I'm gonna, um, I, I ordered some pen, I ordered a pen recently, a pilot. Um, I'll have to send you a link to it. I didn't prepare it for the show, but it's a, um, it's a pilot custom heritage 92, I believe is the name. And, uh, it's a translucent blue barrel piston filler. And I ordered a bold nib just so I could have Myke Masuyama transform it into like a blue, um, I mean, a blue into a small stub nib, like a micro stub nib, like a really fine stub nib. So I bought this pen. I'm not even going to ink it up and I'm going to send it over to Myke to get it to work on. So that's the, that's the extent of my, um, of my passion right now and my obsessiveness over these pens. I'm ordering pens to not even use before I send them off to get worked on.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I feel like I need to do something like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, you know, it's funny. We talked about it on the Anderson pens podcast last night and they were talking about how I like to do that. And the question arose, like, do you, are you afraid that people are just going to do that? That they, that don't need to. And I wasn't, you know, I said, I wasn't afraid that they were going to do it, but you know, you don't want to do it. Not every pen you buy actually needs work done. It's only if you want a modification of your own done to it, right? It's something personal to you that you might want to modify. Um, you know, not because your pen's writing bad. I don't want people to think that I'm, that I get a pen and I send it off to Masuyama because it writes every pen I buy writes bad and I want to get it smoothed out. That's not the case at all. I think over all the fountain pens that I've bought, I've had one that I felt didn't write real well. And that's the Lamy 2000. And he fixed that for me. Every other pen I've bought, you know, like a Twisby, a Pelican, a Sailor, whatever, they all work great out of the box. You just, you just really want to work with a nibmeister. If there's something particular that you want in a nib, like a extra, extra, extra, extra fine nib or, or a super, or a super fine cursive italic or something special. So don't think that you have to do things like this to have a good fountain pen experience because you don't. Um, it's, it's a personal thing that, you know, if you want to do a change, that's going to suit your writing style better. That's when you want to start looking into the services of, uh, of a nibmeister like Myke. So I just wanted to throw that out there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So I think that's about it for today's show. Brad, I appreciate you being here today, even though you're clearly feeling under the weather. So thank you for that. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I appreciate it. And you, uh, you kindly offered to postpone us a couple of days, but, um, this, this worked out okay. And, uh, I, I plunged through and, uh, now we'll go, we'll see if I can go get some, uh, get some meds in me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That'd probably be a good idea. If you want to catch up with Brad, cause he'll probably be tweeting some sort of hoose and like hallucinogenic type tweets later on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Pay attention tonight.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You want to do that. So that's going to be over at Twitter. He is at dowdyism, D O W D Y I S M. I am I Myke. I am Y K E. And of course, go check out Brad elsewhere on the internet at pen, pen addict.com and knock co.com. So that is about it for today's episode of the show. Uh, thank you so much. If you want to find the links that anything discussed today, go to five by five.tv slash pen addict slash 82. And, uh, we will be back next week for another episode of the pen addict. I think we're going to record a little bit later next week. We'll be releasing the episode next Thursday, just so you know, cause I know there are a bunch of you that like to get the show as soon as you can, but we're recording on Thursday next week. So a little bit longer wait than usual, but I promise you it will be worthwhile. So thanks so much for listening till next time. Say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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