Editing The Pen Addict 198/transcript (section)

== Ink Capacity ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' How, well, you say that, but they're, they're clearly over two. I mean, you say that, don't you think they know that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' And so far, they're over two. Well, they clearly do because they're trying to make something, right? But like my, my thinking would be something that was a system very similar to eyedropping. And not eyedropping, sorry, like a syringe filling, right? So that you, you create some kind of metal cartridge, which is the shape and dimensions of a, uh, international. I don't know, maybe with like a little screw top or something. I don't know how it would work. And you, they would just give you something like a syringe that you could fill it with. Like it just feels like, whilst that's not elegant, it would be the best solution to something like this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Cause something, what they did here, they wasted so much space with that piston. Yeah. It's just, it's, it's nonsensical. And, um, you know, I'd like, what would be nice is like, I want this converter to work like a vacuum converter. I want to push the piston down and have it suck in the ink and have the piston like at the end of the barrel. That's how I wanted this thing to work.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The size of the barrel, couldn't it? Yep. So there are, you know, there are many options here, but for whatever reason, they chose probably the worst.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cause it's just the pure amount of ink you get in this thing. Once you've also got an air bubble in it too, it's, it's kind of a joke really.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's bad. It's, it's, it's a, not a good product.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That would last most people a day.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You shouldn't be filling your pen every day. No.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And if you, and if you use this pen and you're used to that type of type of writing, you, you're carrying around extra cartridges, cartridges with you anyway. So, I mean, something like this isn't, isn't going to be a benefit at all.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No. What a weird product. What a weird, weird product. From a company that seems to usually get it right. They really, really got it wrong on this one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, their pens are great. I mean, everyone loves their pens. I love their pens and gosh, I've got too darn many of them. Did anybody use it there? Like, just make it? Like, did anybody actually try and use it? Yeah. With products like this and that squeeze converter, it's like, how do you make this and, and not realize that it's not very good? I got me. You got me. So a product that is very good, because I have it myself and it was actually kind of a, huh, this is pretty good, is the Baron Fig Squire. Were you a backer of that on Kickstarter?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. Remember last week, I spoke about the fact that I thought it was great that they got it all shipped in time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So have you gotten yours in while you were gone?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, I don't think mine's shipped yet. Or if it has, I haven't seen the shipping notification.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. So mine shipped last week, and I got to say, this is a really good pen. Um, I love the shape of it, the size of it. It's smaller, but it's full enough to be, you know, just like a full size pen. I don't feel that it's a mini pen. Um, it's not extremely long. It's not extremely heavy. Um, the finish of it is well done. The twist mechanism that they use is pretty cool. Um, the shape of it's good. It uses the Schmidt P8126 slash seven, uh, rollerball refills that we like, um, from the retro 51. I mean, it's just kind of an all around pretty good pen. Um, I don't know what else, uh, I have to say of it. I got a link in the show notes to, uh, my buddy Joe's, uh, review over at the Gentleman Stationer. He enjoys it. Um, I have a, uh, guest review coming on the Pen Addict, uh, hopefully eventually by one of the readers is going to go ahead and do a guest review of this pen for the blog. So, and they enjoy the pen. Um, I pretty much, uh, kind of across the board praise for this pen. So good job by Baron Fig and, and making something pretty cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I have some observations from looking at Joe's post and also some questions for you. Uh, I thought it was interesting. Joe mentioned this, that the, uh, the Schmidt refill was Baron Fig branded. Okay. Is that true?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, they posted that on the Kickstarter or one of their pages. So yeah, they had that on one of the images either. I don't know if it was in the project images or one of the update images that yes, they, they definitely did that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's pretty cool. Um, the branding on it. What do you think about that?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I love the sword I could do without Baron Fig. I think it's, it's, um, it's not quite to the jarring level, but it kind of doesn't belong.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think they should have gone with one or the other.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I don't like the both. So the, the sword on it is awesome. The, the packaging, and I am not a packaging guy at all. They did a good job on the packaging. Um, I could generally care less about packaging because that's not what's writing on my paper. Right. But they did, it was a great presentation. It looks good. Um, love, love the sword on the barrel. Don't like the Baron Fig on the, on the barrel.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, I mean. How's the twist mechanism?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's great. It's like a little quarter turn click, click out, click back in. Super smooth. Um, I don't know any other pin that's got like this type of thing. It's, it's, it's a very short, uh, action, if you will. Um, very quick to deploy and quick to, to pull back in. Um, it's a very short, I don't know, maybe it's a half turn. I don't have it here in front of me, but it's, it's a short turn. It's not a, it's not a twist. Um.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think this thing is going to end up being a bit of a favorite of mine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They did the balance well and the shape of it. I, I, I really just from a performance and feel wise, I don't have a single bad thing to say about it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's really nice because it's kind of looks like it, it ticks all the boxes of the Ajoto, right? It's the refill I love in a really nice body. Yes. You know, like I love the retro 51s of course, but they're like, you know, they're, they're, they are what you pay for them. They're like 25 bucks a piece or whatever. They feel good. Some of the bodies are nicer than others. Some of them you pay a bit more for, but this is just like a real classy made looking thing. Yeah. I'm excited to pick one of these up. Well, when it arrives, of course, I don't know when mine's coming. But I hope it's soon.