Editing The Pen Addict 235/transcript (section)

== Kickstarter ==


'''Myke Dudek:''' Did you see, uh, oh, sorry. No, no, go ahead. Side note with that. Did you see the, uh, adapter that Ian made?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, but I, for some reason I'm seeming like I ran across this.

'''Myke Dudek:''' You're gonna, you're probably gonna freak out. Okay. Yeah. Just prepare to freak out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I think the only person that buys more Kickstarter stuff than you and I is, uh, our friend Brian Draghi, uh, Mr. SketchScape. And I think maybe, did he have a link from Ian or something? Yeah. Okay. So what is, do you, what is this again?

'''Myke Dudek:''' Ian, uh, like side note as well about that. Like that's a solid pen. Like one of my favorite, like small pocketable EDCs, like, can't get really much better than, than kind of something like that. But he, uh, he designed an adapter to go into his pens that is, so this is a Fisher space pen, but it's an adapter that takes a D one. Oh, that's right. Yeah. So you could throw in like those Charbo, you know, point fours or whatever that you're

'''Brad Dowdy:''' crazy about, you know, that like get a good day out of them for $3.

'''Myke Dudek:''' I know that's, I didn't say it was cost effective, but that's true.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's the first one I would put in there. You know it.

'''Myke Dudek:''' Yeah. But anyway, I interrupted you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, that's, that's really cool. No, those are, those are right. Like I don't have too many fountain pens inked up right now. I have maybe like two or three if I'm not reviewing anything, but I'm, I'm using the Optima religiously. Um, the shown leaves the house with me, um, nearly every day and that's kind of it. And when I'm at my desk, I'm like you, I'm using a lot of pencils. I just got the, uh, the five 30 black wing, um, the volumes release. I use the 56 more, and then I probably use the 602 more than any of them. So, um, you know, when I'm at my desk, I tend to, tend to grab those pencils. So, so that's pretty cool. So one thing you didn't exactly mention that you're using is one of the things you're known for the most on your blog. And one of the reasons, um, you know, some of the hate laser beams coming from my eyeballs at you are for your, uh, wonderful roturing and vintage pilot collections. And I guess the question is, and this one's from Brandon, um, have you completed your shopping for these various roturings and pilots? Do you have more that you're trying to hunt down or are you kind of taking a break on all that stuff?

'''Myke Dudek:''' Uh, well, it's, you know, if you've ever looked into the price of vintage roturing and vintage pilots, a lot of times it's like, there's, there's some, there's some sticker shock there, but well, it's kind of your fault.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm just going to lay it out there.

'''Myke Dudek:''' Well, you know, I don't know if we, if we track market trends and, you know, but there was a time when like, when roturing was, was, was kind of the hot, the hot topic on the blog. And like, I mean, I'm not going to take credit that they like doubled in price, you know, but, but Hey, you know, we all have to make, we all have to make an impact on the world somewhere, you know? And, uh, as far as the roturing goes, um, I wouldn't say that I'm like in, in probably collection mode on the roturing side of things. Cause I've, I've tried pretty much everything and I've owned at least probably one of everything at some given time. But what I have been doing is one of my favorite roturing pens is just their standard. Um, well discontinued now, but like they're, uh, the older ballpoints, the neural ballpoints, you know, they're think of like the current roturing 600 pencils in the, you know, that kind of that super classic style, but like it's a ballpoint. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it has a, it's a knock ballpoint, not a capped. Okay, cool. Yep. And they're, and they're knurled like the pencil.