Editing The Pen Addict 109/transcript (section)

== Stone Paper ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, what about stone paper? I want to ask you about that specifically because I had an experience with stone paper that was less than positive.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Did you use the Ogami?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I did.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Okay, because I haven't tried that yet, but somebody sent me a sample of some stone paper that they found at their local drugstore that I want to say was maybe Mead or something very...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oxford makes them.

'''Anna Reinert:''' The Oxford.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep.

'''Anna Reinert:''' And I tested that a little bit, but I didn't feel like I had enough to actually write a review. Okay. But I didn't have any issues with that. I mean, it was one of those things where it was like, I'm not crazy mad in love with it, but I didn't really have any problems. And I put gel and gel pens, some rollerball and some fountain pens, but again, like a fine nib, sort of my everyday pen and everything seemed to write okay. So, maybe the Oxford uses a slightly different formula than the Ogami, but yeah, I read your review and I'm like, I'm not touching that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Maybe you should. I want to get, I want to see if I'm insane or what, but I don't know. I was, I've gotten to the point where I know what I like and I'm very particular. So, sometimes that I'm not as open in my reviews and I have to tell myself to, you know, look at this, not from my perspective, but from the reader's perspective and what their use cases are. So, you know, I want to try to give everything a fair shake, but you know, I still call a spade a spade, you know, from my personal use cases.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Absolutely. And you know, I did the same thing when I reviewed the Expedition Edition. I was like, it's so pretty. And, but, you know, and then I did the review of Right in the Rain and I went into Right in the Rain thinking, okay, this is going to be different. I'm going to have to think about this differently. And I came back going, okay, I'm going to need to go back and look at the Expedition Edition again. Exactly. Because I'm seeing the benefits of using something like this. Now, obviously that Field Notes Expedition Edition was a limited edition and it's not as if, you know, they're going to keep stocking this. And so, this is something that people are going to be able to get. So, it seems a little unfair to go back and review it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, no, they turned that into a stock edition.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Okay. Well, then it is worth going back and taking another look at it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. They decided afterwards that they wanted to keep a stock edition of that one. So, yeah, it became a permanent fixture. Okay. But your point is valid because I changed my opinion on things over time too. You learn, it's a learning process, right? You know, what we thought at the time and, you know, taking the, you know, whatever tools we're using at the time and applying that to, you know, a product or review or something like that, you know, that's, you know, that particular use case. Well, then you find another use case. Like, you know, you just mentioned, maybe I should try my oil-based pen that I don't know what to use it on, on something like Expedition Edition. So, yeah, it's a learning process and things change, opinions change, and it's all part of the process. So, that's good stuff. All right. So, when we talked about you coming on the show, you had a really good idea that I wanted to talk about. And it was revisiting some of our old favorite pens. Like, I find myself getting lost and, you know, I definitely skewed more fountain pen heavy here recently on my blog. And, you know, sometimes you forget, you know, some of the old favorite pens that are still around. And we don't talk about them as much because they haven't changed for five or more years. But they're still awesome pens that people should check out. And people who are new to our blogs and things like that, they don't get the benefit of coming along for the ride, if you will, as we're going through these things. You know, they'd have to dig back and look for something specific. So, we wanted to highlight a few pens that, or pencils or whatever we have on our list to kind of rekindle some of these old flames, if you will. Some pens that we really, really loved that have kind of just kind of fallen, you know, to the back of the desk drawer, if you will. And I'll go first. I'll read a few of mine real quick. And it's made me go and grab these pens out and start carrying them more is what happened here. But one pen that I love and I haven't used for a year or two is the Kuretaki Fudeigo Kochi Brush Pen. Super fine. So, when you think of a brush pen, you think of a very, almost like a paintbrush style tip. And with this pen, it's very, very firm with only a slight bit of, for the lack of a better term, flex in the brush. I love how this pen writes. I love the design of the pen. It's a very basic, classic design, plastic barrel pen. It's a super good writing pen. And that's what I do the most. And it writes on several different papers very well. You know, and I'll have all these links in the show notes so people can go check out our reviews on these pens. But when did I review this pen? It was in 2011. 2011. August 8th, 2011. And I used that pen. I used the heck out of that pen for, I don't know, probably six months. And then it just vanished. You know, something new and pretty came along and I ignored it. And it's time to break that pen back out because it's awesome. It's a really good pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The second one I put on my list is really unfair. But I use this pen and I love this pen. And I'm going to have to open up a change.org petition for Pilot to bring back this pen. But it's the Pilot Explorer. The Extra Fine. It's such a great pen. And I know not everyone can find them. They don't make them anymore. And if you're lucky enough to come across one, you'll see why it's such a cool pen. But I still use this pen pretty frequently. And like I said, it's kind of not fair that I put it in here because it's not easily attainable. But yeah, I got to work on this petition for Pilot to bring this pen back.

'''Anna Reinert:''' So what makes you love it so much?