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== Mayu Pen Discussion ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so this is the vintage Mu. This is the 1970s. This is not the M90. So the question is, should I peel off the sticker and should I ink it up? And Myke's answer is yes to both.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, Anna. What do you got?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I'm inclined. This is the one case where I would not peel the sticker off, but I would still use it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, okay. I guess the sticker thing is your personal preference. It would drive me bananas. I'd be constantly picking at it.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. I would leave it on. Eventually, it's going to, just from rinsing ink out and things like that, it'll start to peel off. But I would leave it on for a little while just as a, you know, new old stock.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I am shocked to say that I would leave the sticker on as well. And I'm absolutely inking it up, but I'm leaving the sticker on. I think that's the bigger question is the leaving the sticker on question than inking it up. I think it's such a great pen. You have to use it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And any modern pen, even if it's like a limited edition or some rare out of stock thing and it has a sticker on it, I'm taking the sticker off. On the Mu, I'm keeping the sticker on. Or if I got a MuRx, I'm probably keeping the sticker on. And I can't explain why other than, like, it fits the aesthetic of that pen. I don't know why. It just feels right. So I would leave the sticker on and definitely ink it up.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Either way, I would say make sure that you get a good photograph of the sticker just because the look of those is, you know, is so classic and so beautiful. You want to archive it one way or the other. If you decide to take the sticker off or if you leave it on, just to have a record of what it looked like.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Take some pictures of the pen before you inevitably destroy it by using it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And as you're wearing down the sticker, I think you're going to love it even more knowing that you did that, right? Like, that's part of using your pens, right? You're the one who has put the miles on and you know that that was your work that did that. I think it's pretty cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And the last question comes from Tim underscore Loblaw on Twitter too. What is the best way to fill a cartridge converter and get as much ink in the converter as possible with or without the nib? What is what you would recommend?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I'll go first. Syringe fill it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' A hundred percent.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't think I care enough about filling to also add another piece of complexity. Like, for me, like, you know, like you just, I just fill it up and as much ink goes in there is great. Like, that works for me.

'''Ana Reinert:''' There's a couple cartridge converters that if you try to fill it through the nib or just fill the converter on its own, tend to only get like half full, which is super annoying. So if your goal is you've got a big broad nib or something like that and a half fill is going to get you a day writing and you need to really fill that up, try syringe filling it. That's going to give you at least a full fill.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, the Japanese converters are notoriously poor. At doing anything to get a full fill. So that's why I tend to syringe fill a lot.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah, it's funny. This question came up in Twitch and people were, like, surprised that I would say, like, syringe. And then a bunch of people chimed in. It's like, no, that's how I do it, too. And I was like, yeah, that's how you should. It's okay to fill your stuff with syringes, listeners. It's okay. You don't have to stick the nib in the bottle if you don't want to.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's okay to do that, but it's also okay to not do that and to do what I do, which is just to stick the entire thing in the ink bottle. That's how I go every time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, if I have five pens I'm sitting out to ink, I will probably have, like, two or three different ways I'm filling them just by the design of the pen, right?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah, and you can use a pipette as well if you don't have a syringe. Like, usually those will fit. So if you have to do a couple of pens and you don't want to have to rinse a syringe, you know, you can use three pipettes and then rinse those all out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. They are a little bit easier to clean.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. All right. We did it, Myke. We did it. We did it, Anna.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Anna, thank you so much for being on the show today. And, again, massive congratulations. Ten years is a long time to be doing anything, especially an online project like this. So congratulations. Thank you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, big congrats. We love you, and we hope we have ten more years and a thousand more podcasts to have you on.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I love you both, too. And I'm bummed I didn't get to see you both in person in Atlanta.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. Us, too.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You can find us all online on social media. You can find Brad. He's at Dowdy. He's on Twitter. Pen Addict on Instagram. Anna is well, apptdesk on Twitter and wellapptdesk on Instagram. I am the only one who offers any level of consistency. I am iMike. I-M-Y-K-E in both places. You can go to wellappointeddesk.com for our honors work. Go to penaddict.com for Brad. Brad streams live on Twitch Tuesdays, Thursdays, 10 a.m. Eastern. You can check him out there. Thank you so much to our sponsors this week, the people at Harry's, ExpressVPN, and Pen Chalet for their continued support of the show. And most of all, thank you for listening. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, everybody.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye. Goodbye, everybody.

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