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== Gift Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' It depends right? Like I love the TWSBI Eco and the Pilot Metropolitan but I'm kind of probably not giving that for a gift pen. Like I'm probably going to like the Lamy Studio.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Something that's a little bit nicer but doesn't break the bank. You know the steel nib Lamy Studios are like $70-80. They look beautiful. They write really well. I prefer the finer nibs on those. Like I stick with extra fine only. Those are really good. Then you can depending on your budget you can go up from there into you know a whole world of pens between $100 and $200. But I think like the best quality from someone who has no idea about a pen you can get some really nice Lamy pens. Even if it's not a fountain pen the Lamy 2000 roller ball and ballpoint are real good. The Lamy 2000 ballpoint is one of my favorite ball points and it was like $60-70. A fantastic pen. For the librarian I want to say pilot vanishing point and I don't know why. I think it's just a good utility pen to take all around the library. Take notes as you're walking around. It's got that retractable feel. But that's not really a pen for everyone. That's not a pen for someone who's just getting into fountain pens. Maybe one of the lower end pelicans with the steel nibs like the 200-205 series for the librarian. Something like that. Or you can if your budget allows for it getting something like really neat and cool like a Franken-Kristoff. You know barrel something like that. You know I you got any suggestions for the librarian. I I'm not totally sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No one of my problems here is that with these questions I feel like I'm I don't recommend things as widely as you. Like my recommendations typically seem to be very similar these days. Right. Yeah. Because I have I feel like I can make a bunch of recommendations but I don't really feel like I have anything specific for this one. Like I just don't really think that I have something that can can really help.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Because I keep looking at the Lamy Studios even for Doc Krog because they make a piano black Lamy Studio that's got this great polished black barrel which would be great for maybe the trumpet player. Even the left even the left hander. I you know it's really really hard like without a budget. What do you classify as a nice pen you know is are we talking like a retro 51 like rollerball like that's an extraordinarily nice pen for a lot of people. Are we talking about like a Lamy Studio in the $80 range or are we looking at like a Pilot Custom 912 that's like $200 that's just a beautiful like wedding present pen. So it's a it's a super tricky to answer these questions. That's why I kind of wanted to talk through and a lot of my answers are the same like I really recommend the Lamy Studio a lot for gifts because it it ticks a lot of boxes for gift expectations right. like you're probably not going to go wrong if that's the kind of thing you want to do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah I agree. I agree. I was trying to wreck my brain for like something that I feel would be design specific like for a librarian like kind of think of a pen that has words on it or something. Yeah. Right. And I can't really think of anything.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well like some of the retro 51 like the retro 51 cursive or some of the retro 51 like metalsmith historic type things those would be great for librarians and they make fountain pen models of those as well so you know that's a that's kind of a cool like theme theme look if you will. So yeah it it it really just depends like it's super hard to answer these questions so that's why I lumped them all together just to go through and give a few ideas out. So you know and if you're in it also it's very budget dependent right under $100 is one category 100 to $200 is like a million different types of pens like it would be impossible to narrow down you know. but there's good stuff everywhere and I'm glad to help you out so if you have very if you want to get even more specific on those answers where can they find me Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' You can send tweets to Brad he's at Dowdyism on Twitter but also you can send in questions to us with the hashtag ask TPA and they'll go into a spreadsheet for us to pick later. You can also find us on our show notes is where you can find a bunch of information go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 310 for today's show notes. Brad is also on Instagram he's penaddict. I am iMike I-M-Y-K-E on all social networks. You can find Brad's amazing products over at knock.co and I want to extend our thanks again to Away for their support of this episode and of course thank you for listening. I'll be back in two weeks. Brad will be back next week with a special guest. Until then say goodbye Brad. Goodbye Brad. Goodbye. You

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