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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Exactly. Right. Not everyone has to have, like, a $25 pen to start into their brand to get people learning about it. You know, Onodo has done this thing where they've made an insanely high-quality pen. They've charged a fair price for it. But it's also kind of their entryway into learning about Onodo pens, right? This was a $270 pen. And it's totally worth $270. But I hesitate to call it an entry-level pen. It's an entry-point pen, as you said. So the pen itself is great. It has a steel nib. It writes amazingly. I love the color. I love the style. I love Onodo's graphics. I love their logos. I love, you know, all the little bits and bobs they include in their packaging. This is a detailed entry point to a brand that would like you to explore their higher-end pens eventually, right? So this one's cool. I reviewed it. I have... I reviewed it very highly. I thought it was a very great pen. And then I matched it with a Ferris Wheel Press ink, which I have never reviewed. And Ferris Wheel Press has been around for years. I don't know, five years, maybe more. Beautiful packaging. Less than functional ink bottle. Great ink. So great packaging. Great ink. Bottle is not my platonic ideal of what a fountain pen ink bottle should be. It's, you know, it's basically a form over function bottle, which is fine. You just have to manage that differently. Like, I just was able to put the converter of the pen and draw ink into the converter to fill this pen. Like, I was not comfortable sticking the pen into the ink bottle if it would even fit through the opening in the top. Or I would tip it over because it is really not balanced for that. Not all of their ink bottles are like this, which I find interesting. But this more... Their most current ink bottles are this kind of perfume bottle shape that is very kind of tipsy and has a small opening, which is just... That's like two things I look for in a good ink bottle design is, hey, can I get the pen in here easy to fill while not knocking it over the bottle? And Ferris Wheel Press is 0 for 2 on that. Luckily, the ink is pretty good. So I used Central Park Greens just to kind of draw out some of the color in this pen, the Highland material from this Onodo. And I like kind of mixing in my ink review into a pen review. It's kind of a two-for-one type of deal to where I feel better about the review instead of just reviewing the ink, mixing it in with a pen review. So I think I'm going to do more of these because I have, I don't know, probably eight or ten inks sitting here and a decent amount of fountain pens that I can match them. It's not going to preclude me from doing like individual ink reviews, but this Ferris Wheel Press is pretty much just a standard ink, right? I like to review non-standard inks. So like I mentioned the pigmented ink from Octopus Fluids, the shimmer ink, the Shogun ink, which I reviewed last year from Shea Herbaugh, like those kind of really, really, hey, the ink is like a real interesting product on its own, real standalone. It's not just necessarily a standard product line ink, right? So that's the way I think about those things. And a lot of standard inks are really good, like this Ferris Wheel Press one, but I don't necessarily want to spend that individual time doing it. So I'm going to try to mix and match in these reviews a little bit more. So just kind of like a combo review. And I felt better or I felt good about the review setup for this to where I could do both of those things instead of breaking them out separately. So anyway, that's just me talking about doing me things. And I had fun doing it. So I'm going to do it some more. I think people liked it. So it should be fun.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Exactly. Right. Not everyone has to have, like, a $25 pen to start into their brand to get people learning about it. You know, Onodo has done this thing where they've made an insanely high-quality pen. They've charged a fair price for it. But it's also kind of their entryway into learning about Onodo pens, right? This was a $270 pen. And it's totally worth $270. But I hesitate to call it an entry-level pen. It's an entry-point pen, as you said. So the pen itself is great. It has a steel nib. It writes amazingly. I love the color. I love the style. I love Onodo's graphics. I love their logos. I love, you know, all the little bits and bobs they include in their packaging. This is a detailed entry point to a brand that would like you to explore their higher-end pens eventually, right? So this one's cool. I reviewed it. I have... I reviewed it very highly. I thought it was a very great pen. And then I matched it with a Ferris Wheel Press ink, which I have never reviewed. And Ferris Wheel Press has been around for years. I don't know, five years, maybe more. Beautiful packaging. Less than functional ink bottle. Great ink. So great packaging. Great ink. Bottle is not my platonic ideal of what a fountain pen ink bottle should be. It's, you know, it's basically a form over function bottle, which is fine. You just have to manage that differently. Like, I just was able to put the converter of the pen and draw ink into the converter to fill this pen. Like, I was not comfortable sticking the pen into the ink bottle if it would even fit through the opening in the top. Or I would tip it over because it is really not balanced for that. Not all of their ink bottles are like this, which I find interesting. But this more... Their most current ink bottles are this kind of perfume bottle shape that is very kind of tipsy and has a small opening, which is just... That's like two things I look for in a good ink bottle design is, hey, can I get the pen in here easy to fill while not knocking it over the bottle? And Ferris Wheel Press is 0 for 2 on that. Luckily, the ink is pretty good. So I used Central Park Greens just to kind of draw out some of the color in this pen, the Highland material from this Onodo. And I like kind of mixing in my ink review into a pen review. It's kind of a two-for-one type of deal to where I feel better about the review instead of just reviewing the ink, mixing it in with a pen review. So I think I'm going to do more of these because I have, I don't know, probably eight or ten inks sitting here and a decent amount of fountain pens that I can match them. It's not going to preclude me from doing like individual ink reviews, but this Ferris Wheel Press is pretty much just a standard ink, right? I like to review non-standard inks. So like I mentioned the pigmented ink from Octopus Fluids, the shimmer ink, the Shogun ink, which I reviewed last year from Shea Herbaugh, like those kind of really, really, hey, the ink is like a real interesting product on its own, real standalone. It's not just necessarily a standard product line ink, right? So that's the way I think about those things. And a lot of standard inks are really good, like this Ferris Wheel Press one, but I don't necessarily want to spend that individual time doing it. So I'm going to try to mix and match in these reviews a little bit more. So just kind of like a combo review. And I felt better or I felt good about the review setup for this to where I could do both of those things instead of breaking them out separately. So anyway, that's just me talking about doing me things. And I had fun doing it. So I'm going to do it some more. I think people liked it. So it should be fun.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' It made me think like Brad Dowdy, ~~Penn~~ Sommelier.		'''Myke Hurley:''' It made me think like Brad Dowdy, Pen Sommelier.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Even if you bought like the most expensive Prera and the penmanship, you're still probably less than 50, honestly. And if you do the Metropolitan, you're probably like less than 35. So, yeah.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Even if you bought like the most expensive Prera and the penmanship, you're still probably less than 50, honestly. And if you do the Metropolitan, you're probably like less than 35. So, yeah.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' Cool project. You can do it. Yep. Do it. If you would like to send in a question of your own or you have some follow-up or feedback about the show, just go to penaddictfeedback.com and you can send it in to us there or you can click the link in your show notes. You can find those in your podcast app of choice or you can go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 556 to get that. If you want to catch up with us in the meantime, there's a few ways you can do it. You can find Brad. He's over at penaddict.com, spokedesign.com, streaming three times a week over on twitch.tv slash penaddict. He is penaddict on Instagram and you can find Brad on Mastodon. He is at mastodon.social and is at penaddict. I am on mike.social and I'm at imike there. So you can come and hang out with us, see what we're up to. You can also find my products at cortexbrand.com and my other podcasts here on RelayFM. Thank you to ~~Penn~~ Chalet and ExpressVPN for their support of this week's episode. But most of all, thank you for listening. And we'll be back next week. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.		'''Myke Hurley:''' Cool project. You can do it. Yep. Do it. If you would like to send in a question of your own or you have some follow-up or feedback about the show, just go to penaddictfeedback.com and you can send it in to us there or you can click the link in your show notes. You can find those in your podcast app of choice or you can go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 556 to get that. If you want to catch up with us in the meantime, there's a few ways you can do it. You can find Brad. He's over at penaddict.com, spokedesign.com, streaming three times a week over on twitch.tv slash penaddict. He is penaddict on Instagram and you can find Brad on Mastodon. He is at mastodon.social and is at penaddict. I am on mike.social and I'm at imike there. So you can come and hang out with us, see what we're up to. You can also find my products at cortexbrand.com and my other podcasts here on RelayFM. Thank you to Pen Chalet and ExpressVPN for their support of this week's episode. But most of all, thank you for listening. And we'll be back next week. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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| name = The Pen Addict
| number = 556
| title = Pen Sommelier
| date = March 22nd, 2023
| hosts = [[Brad Dowdy]]<br>
[[Myke Hurley]]
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| link = [https://www.relay.fm/penaddict/556 Episode 556]
| audiolink = [https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thepenaddict/The_Pen_Addict_556.mp3 Audio Episode 556]
| length = 58
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