Editing The Pen Addict 158/transcript (section)

== Custom Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Althaven wants to know, how does a custom pen compare to a pen like Nakaya? One can be made to your specs. The other is the pinnacle of workmanship. I had a tough time deciding whether to include Nakaya in last week's podcast because I had people saying that. You should, you know, or is Nakaya going to be in there? Or Nakia? How are we saying it? Nakia?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nakia? Nakia? I don't know, man. Anything.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just like I say Sino still. I'm just not going to say Signo. So, it's... Wow. How do they compare? That's like... It's almost an unfair comparison to both sides of the ledger because they're very different. Nakias are very... I don't want to say they're a work of art to denigrate the standard custom stuff because those are works of art too, but this is on a different level of craftsmanship. The craftsmanship behind the two types of pens, either a custom pen or what you're getting from Nakia, is really different. And I don't think they compare at all. There's really nothing... There's no similarities about it. But you do have the benefit of knowing when you buy something from Nakia that it has been worked on by hand the entire way. You know, they take months to make. So, you know, how do they compare? I don't think they compare at all. They're just two totally different animals and two, you know, very, very fun, good, valid stuff. So, yeah. I don't know. All right. NetBui wants to know, giving a fountain pen as a gift for my son's graduation. Was wondering if you knew where I could purchase a good pen and get it engraved. There's two pen companies that I work with that do engraving very well. One is Vaness Pens. Another one is Goldspot. We'll put both the links in the show notes. They both have a huge lineup of pens and they both do in-house engraving. So that's where I always send people for a graduation gift. This always comes up this time of year. This one's for you, Myke, from Outer Nerd. What kind of tea do you drink and why do they call it English breakfast tea? And what do they call English breakfast tea in England?

'''Myke Hurley:''' English breakfast.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, if you want that kind of tea, we call it English breakfast. I don't really tend to drink tea, but if I ever do, my preferred tea is Earl Grey. I am a coffee drinker.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Yeah. I actually broke out some tea when I was sick a couple weeks ago and I quite enjoy tea, but I haven't gotten into the whole fussy tea thing. I could see me doing that just because I enjoy the taste and flavor of tea. I just tend to lean more towards coffee just for the full caffeine punch that I need. Like today, I woke up, so we're podcasting at 4.30 Eastern time today. I woke up at 3.47 is when I got out of bed and just, it was like a blitzkrieg for me to get ready for the podcast. So, um, I definitely had to make some coffee when I get up, when I get up and, uh, I don't know if tea would have had the same effect that it had on me right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I could also see myself becoming a fussy tea person. I, uh, we have a tea sponsor, um, on a couple of shows in a couple of weeks time and I'm very much looking forward to digging into some stuff that they're going to send me. So maybe, maybe I'm going to be a convert yet, but I'm a fussy coffee guy, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I go either way on the coffee. I, sometimes it's just out of necessity. Sometimes I get fussy with it, so it just depends. But, uh, I love tea. I just, I, uh, I just haven't gotten, um, knee deep into it. So Brody McDonald asks, uh, can you please start a wishlist service so my loved ones, uh, can buy me a cool fin, a cool pin I want and feel awesome about it. I think that's a really good idea. Um, I have lots of services that people want me to start, um, in my little notebook of ideas. I don't know which one is, if any of them are ever going to happen, but I, it's funny how many, um, how many things, uh, um, how many services that people ask me, hey, you should do this. And I'm like, I don't really have time right now to do that for you, but you know, I'll keep that in mind. So, uh, yeah. So, um, will you work on that for me?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, you bet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'll just assign that to you. I'm all over it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, that's, you can leave that one with me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. I'm going to assign something else to you right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.