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== Ink Mixing Contest ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. We'll see. We'll see. This other thing is cool Myke. And I'm part of it. The Anderson Pens have a ink testing. Or an ink mixing contest going on. Inkology contest. And they asked several online personalities. Several of their employees to mix inks from the Sailor's Story line. Okay. So it's Sailor's pigmented ink line. And they have a bracket. Where eight of us. Myself included. Got in on the bracket. To see who would mix the best ink. And I can't tell you which one's mine. But we're already into the second round. We started off with eight colors. There's four colors left. So go over to the Anderson Pens Instagram. Check it out. This is super. This has been really fun. I'm not going to lie. Me and the kids. Sat there for like a half an hour. Mix. Mixing inks. Trying to figure out what to do. Trying to figure out what color is going to work. And yeah. It. It's fun. So what do you think about this? So you're still in the running? I can't say. We're not allowed to say anything. To sway the votes. Of any. Any kind. Right. Because you don't want it to be. May or may not have lost. This. Right. So eight people started. And none of us can say what our inks are. Okay. Or aren't. Or if we're still in. Until it's over. This is fun. This is a lot of fun. Because you don't want it to be a popularity contest. Right. Sure. You want the inks to win on their own merit. So the colors go up against each other. The commenters vote in the comment section on Instagram. And at the end there will be a single ink winner. So it's very cool. So when it's done. Which it'll be done before next week's podcast. Podcasting I can tell you more about it. And what I mixed up. And some of the. Some of my thought process. In trying to win this contest. So yeah. All right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm going to tell you my favorites there. All right. Looking at these.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like the Cirque de la Mer. And the Acrobat. They are my two favorites. Let's see. Cirque de la Mer. Yeah. That's great. Where is Acrobat on this page? It's the pink one. It's like. It's a little bit down. So. Okay. Yeah. That one lost out to the unicycle. Which is just a. Dark. Like. I don't know. Like a blue black kind of thing. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So yeah. Okay. I can. This is fun. This is a lot of fun. Yeah. Go follow along on the Anderson Pens page. Yeah. On Instagram. Interesting. I'm trying. Interesting. I'm trying to see if I can guess which one you made.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So yeah. It's. Who named them? This is fun. We were allowed to choose a name but we didn't have to. So I'm wondering if some got named. Right. After the fact kind of thing. I don't know. But we were. In the rules that we were provided. We could provide a name but did not have to.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. And therefore maybe also the names that you chose didn't necessarily get used.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. And they said yeah you have to be careful so it doesn't give away anything. You know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Pan addict orange. Yeah. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So let's. Let's hit a few ask TPAs and we'll. We'll put a bow on this one. And we had a lot of EDC pin. Questions that I want to get to. Because we talked a lot about them in this episode already. So I want to talk about that a little more. And I'm going to bundle all these questions up into one. So Joe asked can you revisit your favorite EDC pocket pins? What's your favorite right now? Russell wants to know what's a great EDC pin for a sport coat. Light with a cap. And Sherry wants to know I try to keep a rollerball pin in my EDC just in case. Trouble is by the time I reach for it it's dried up and no longer an option. Will a gel pin be better? So let's kind of take all of these together from an EDC aspect. And as I mentioned before my pocket pins that I use for EDC. I think right now is probably three main ones with the shown design black aluminum. I think this one was called the 01 or something. It's the very first one he made.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I carry it probably 75% of the time if I'm putting a pin in my pocket. It's well built. It uses the Fisher Space Pen Refill. It's a ballpoint. It's always going to work. So that's where I'm going with Sherry's question. I wouldn't use a rollerball or a gel pin for an EDC. I would only use a ballpoint. And it doesn't even have to be a pressurized one. But you're going to get better functionality out of a ballpoint even though it's an inferior writing experience compared to gel and rollerball. Sometimes the situation just calls that you need to have a ballpoint. And that's what I carry in my shown. It's a Fisher Space Pen Refill. If I'm not carrying that, I do carry the Paca pins. It's the little small pocketable ballpoint. It's very, very lightweight. You know, the refills are kind of so-so, but it's so light you don't even notice it's there. And you can just kind of throw it in anything, everything. Which one was that? The Paca, P-O-K-K-A pin. It's a little small plastic ballpoint. It's like three or four bucks. I've reviewed them on the site before. Maybe, I don't know if we've talked about it. We've certainly talked about them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It doesn't ring a bell with me at all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's a cool little pen. It's a 3D printed, or actually it was a 3D printed originally. Now it's like molded plastic barrels. And they're very cool. They're like smaller and cheaper than a Fisher Space Pen, but not a pressurized refill. And then sometimes I carry my Timber Twist wood pencil. The bullet pencil, I should say. Because it carries the, I have the Blackwing 602 in it. I kind of keep all these around my keys, and my watch, and my wallet, and my pocket knives. Because these are all the things that go in my pocket when I leave the house. And those are the three that sit there. And most of the time, I'm grabbing the Schoen Design pen. Now Russell's question, what's a great EDC pen for a sport coat? None of these are going to translate to that for what he's trying to use. You know, with light, with a cap, rollerball, a ballpoint. He loves the TI2 Tech Liner, but those are too heavy. I'm having a hard time coming up with something. I know there's, you can get, you know, just your basic Uniball Jetstream, you know, retractable pens. It's a fantastic sport coat pen. It's light. You know it's going to work all the time. Same with any of the gel pens like the Zebra Saracic Clip or the Uniball Signo RT1. Those are awesome. But I don't know if that's exactly what you're looking for, Russell.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like a Fisher Space pen with a clip on it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that would be fine. It's lightweight. It's got a cap. You can add on the clip. Oh, I apologize. One other thing on the EDC pens. There is a fourth one, and I meant to say that. It's the Kaweco Lilliput. Because I've added that clip on there, and I'm really enjoying the Lilliput, my Fire Blue Lilliput. That's another that stays in my little EDC pen area. But I don't carry that as much. I tend to use that on my desk a lot just because I enjoy writing with it. The chat room's mentioning the Cron Dash 849. That's a great choice. Mr. Myke from Ink Dependents, who is also in the Inkology contest. So we'll have to commiserate after it's done and see how we did. The 849 would be an awesome pen. It is retractable. He does want a cap. But I kind of like the retractable ideas for an EDC pen anyway. So yeah, I'm not totally sure where to go with this one for Russell. Like, I like the Karis Customs EDK, but that's not light. And it's, you know, retractable. But that's a good... That's not one I carry in my pants pocket, but I'd carry in a shirt pocket. So I don't have the perfect answer for that. But Sherry, I would go with a ballpoint. And you can do a lot of cool things. If you want to get something cool, one pen that I carried in my car for years is the Tombow AirPress. It's a cheaper, cooler looking Fisher Space pen. And it's not going to dry up. It's going to handle all the temperature changes. It's just a really, really cool, cool pen. And then I wanted to give a shout out to Todd Crane, who emailed me with a fantastic idea. And it was EDC related, so I wanted to bundle it in with this group. And he said, you know, you do these top... He was talking about when we did our top five pens recently. He's like, why don't... You know, he's like, that's a great topic. But how about a top five most useful pens? And I thought, you know, that's a really good way to put it. Like, we talk about our top five pens, or we talk about EDC pens. And there's kind of not much crossover from there. Can you put together a top five of your most useful pens? You know, which can contain a fountain pen, an EDC pen, whatever you're using, a pencil. You know, whatever you're using most frequently. And I think that's a really good way to look at this topic. You know, trying to do it like any kind of top five. What pens are the most useful for you? You know, and I kind of say that... I mean, I kind of do that myself, like at my desk. That's where I keep... Like, I use a Pilot Hitec C all the time. And that's at my desk. You know, would that be a top five most useful pen? I don't know. But I keep my drawing pens there. You know, the Kirtaki Zig Mangakas, which I use all the time. That could be in there. You know, Sharpie pens. Different things like that. I just thought that was kind of a neat way to put it, an appropriate way to put it, to be quite honest. So, yeah, I think that's kind of cool. So, we will work on that for the future, or I'll write a blog post on it, or something like that. So, do you have anything to say on the EDC type stuff?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' M90?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It doesn't count. I don't think of it like that. Like, every day for me is in my office. Like, it's not, you know, that's where the pens are, and that's where I'm using them. So, I can use anything, you know? I will say, I went at a meeting today, and I had to take some pens with me, and I took the Sinclair. What a great case that is, Brad. Oh, well, thank you. It's the first time I've really used it, and I was able to get four pens and a notebook in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That's a good one. I think that's probably our most popular item. It should be.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I honestly think it is the best case that you make.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I think so, too. I don't disagree with that one bit, and when I'm at shows and people aren't familiar with our cases, you know, when I'm explaining to them, here's what each case does. You know, the Sinclair tends to register with a lot of people for the way it's set up, and you can close it up, and you can add paper into it, which not a lot of our cases do have, you know, an additional small paper option. So, yeah, Sinclair is my favorite case that we make, but that's like picking a favorite child, too, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just don't tell the other cases.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right, right. Brasstown, you're in the corner. No, just kidding. Brasstown. I think it's Sinclair, Brasstown, and Lookout are easily the top three with Sinclair. It's probably first, and then Brasstown and Lookout are right there, neck and neck for close seconds. So, yeah. All good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All good. That's my contribution to Everyday Carry.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, thank you. So, carry all your Everyday Carry stuff in a Sinclair by NotCo. Love it. Ding! All right, a couple more. Let's do these real quick. Is that good? Yeah, great. So, the real nib creep wants to know, what's everyone's opinion on Sailor medium nibs? More like Western fine or similar to Western medium like my Pilot 823? I say they're more like Western fine. They're a little bit firmer than the 823 in a medium, so maybe that's why it's a little bit wider. But at least that's been my experience with Sailor medium nibs. I know that's your primary nib size, right, for your Sailors?