Editing The Pen Addict 260/transcript (section)

== Kaweco King ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' What on earth is the Kaweco King?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think it's my new favourite pen, Myke.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What is this thing? This was sent in to us a few weeks ago, and I've just been saving it for the right time. Sent in by HowManyPens, at HowManyPens on Twitter. And this is at a website called WeLovePens.co.uk, which I've never come across before.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But they are selling something called the Kaweco King, which is a Kaweco with like a tortoiseshell body, and it's got like a lever filling system and gold trim. And it comes in this box, this like special box with all these little swivelly sections. And it's £1,000. But you left off the most important part. Oh, yeah?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's got a crown. I mean, it's the Kaweco King. Oh, yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Look at that crown up there. Look at that. There's a crown on the cap.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, ever since we got this link, every time I click it, I have laughed every time. It never gets old. This pen absolutely cracks me up. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. And I think, I legitimately think it's the crown. Like, if they didn't have the crown there, well, maybe they couldn't charge as much. But if they just had some other kind of special finial with like a crown emblem on there, it would look way better. And, I don't know, I would never buy it. But it's the most random thing ever. I guess it's a throwback to their, it's just saying the filling system is one of their old, you know, they made lever fillers back in 1925. Okay. I don't know what purpose the king means. I don't know that that's a throwback. It's just like they wanted to say, hey, we have the Kaweco King and there's 300 pieces of it. It's their, one of their limited edition models. I mean, okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And there's some super weird nibs as well for these. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know what an S stub and a K nib is. Well, okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The K nib has a ball pointed tip and is 1.2 millimeter broad and rotund. The S stub nib is a 1.3 millimeter broad flat ground tip.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. So the K nib is a standard broad. It's just very wide. Yeah. Or rotund. Rotund. I've never, I've never heard of a nib description being rotund. I'm very familiar with the word rotund, but not, not in a nib description before.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh dear.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is just like a big, big broad nib. And then the S is a stub nib.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I basically, I could call myself a stub man now, right? Because I, you know, I'm a little rotund. I'm a stub.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So yeah, I got nothing. I, okay. So yeah, I don't know when or where or why this exists. Why is the thing for me?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Why did they make this? Like the page doesn't say anything, right? Like if it was like some kind of anniversary or something, but like this page, I'm going to see if I can try and find this answer out now because I'm interested. The Kaweco K limited edition.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So while you're looking, they had two of these pens and they've sold one of them because only one is available. Someone bought it. So someone bought it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. I can't find any reason why this pen exists. Okay. I'm looking around even on Kaweco's website and stuff like there's, there's nothing. It's just, it just is.