Editing The Pen Addict 240/transcript (section)

== Nib Holders ==


'''Tiff Arment:''' Possibly Nick, Nick, N I K P on Instagram. Possibly underscore N I K P. Anyway, I'll give you guys a link. Um, so I was just, they just look so beautiful. He had some of them with like wood and resin combinations with like some gold leafing on it and stuff. I was just intrigued by them. And this particular one that I picked up, I could not walk away from cause it's made from a pine cone, which is awesome. Like they poured this, the acrylic resin onto the pine cone and then turned it and it makes this cool pattern. And it was just really, really neat. And I'm like, I could try that. So, you know, I picked that up and he threw in some nibs and he was showing me a couple of things. Like he wrote my name out and he was showing me a couple of things that you could do with it. And it's just more of, it's a, it's a nib holder for, for dipping and you can't just use any ink. You need like a more thicker, a thicker ink. You can't use a very liquid, I don't know, viscose, which, which way is that? Is that thick or thin?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' A viscous would be thicker. Thick. Okay. That's the one. More, more viscous.

'''Tiff Arment:''' There you go.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Tiff Arment:''' To attach to the nib. The viscous meniscus. Yeah. Okay.

'''Tiff Arment:''' So, yeah. So it was, that's a new thing for, to try out because now I have this beautiful holder and I am a big fan of obviously buying things and having gear and especially having attractive gear. I don't like to try something new with something ugly. So I like to get something pretty because then it encourages me to try the thing with the new beautiful piece of gear that I have for it. So there we go.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And I like having those nib. I don't have, I keep looking for like a fancy nib holder like this one. I have just like some of the basic, they call them comic nib holders, you know, just the very, very generic mass manufactured nib holders, but they're fun to just throw in one of those nibs and play around with. I really enjoy just having them around. It's such a different feel than writing with a traditional fountain pen. I quite enjoy it.

'''Tiff Arment:''' Yeah. I'm excited to start playing around with it. And then I spent a lot of time with Susan Wirth, which was great. I thought I was going to go get a flex, another flex nib pen. And she's like, you don't want that. She's like, everyone thinks that the flex is all sexy and it's not. And she's like, what you want is an italic. And I was like, okay. And then, so she started showing me a couple and having me write things. And then I bought two italic nib pens. So nice. Thanks, Susan. And they're pretty great. And she gave me a really very nice deal on them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I really like that Parker with the red cap on it. That's, I've never seen like that color matchup is pretty cool.