Editing The Pen Addict 514/transcript (section)

== Scribe Inks and Esterbrook Cosmic Wine SD ==


'''Myke:''' I wish I understood what all of these meant. Yeah. Right. That's my issue. There's a chart. There's a, yes, but the chart is an image. So I can't try and translate the chart. I can translate all of the text. Like, so I can get, like, rough translations of the names of the nibs. Right. Right. I don't actually know what it means. so like I can get a translation that tells me that the MS nib is music or the C is special bold or what about WA which is translated as Waverly right like I don't know what that means

'''Brad:''' so yeah it's like yeah you'd have to go you know I'd have to go do some additional work you know like Waverly is a little bit of a turned up nib SU is stub

'''Myke:''' I just don't like the 912 I want to see this on a different pen yep I'm with you

'''Brad:''' but I'm ecstatic and I just hope this is again something that is the beginning of a bigger longer term trend with the 912 because I have been beating that drum forever alright next up the Parker Penman Sapphire Myke is one of the most famous inks in fountain pen lore it was a ink made by Parker I want to say early 2000s late 90s early 2000s that was a color that quickly became everyone's favorite right up until it destroyed their pens so there is always been it's always been held up as one of the greatest inks ever made except for that part the destruction part right everyone liked the color and like the depth of the ink the shading of the ink everything about that ink was kind of everyone's favorite blue and ever since that ink went away two things happened one people hoarded that ink and started charging ultra premium prices for it you know because it was rare and sought after now and two companies have tried to replicate that what if I told you the person who made the original Parker Penman Sapphire is now making their own copycat inks that look similar behave similar similar but won't destroy your pens and that is what the guest post I had on the pen addict on Monday by our friend Michael Harris Michael if you didn't put two and two together Michael is one of the two people behind the pen addict annual survey along with Catherine Palmisano this is the the other half of that glorious pairing to get us our survey data so Michael wrote this guest post because he has interviewed the chemist behind this and gone through all of the Parker original Parker Penman inks and the new scribe or new-ish scribe inks that were designed to match and this I know this isn't necessarily up your alley nor is it up mine to be perfectly honest but I think the idea behind this that we have someone involved with one of the most famous fountain pen inks ever trying to duplicate that in a more healthy fashion and doing it on their own I think is pretty neat and I wanted to make sure that people share people saw this article and shared it because I think it's just kind of the cool stuff that we can get in this community to where we have this creativity and this desire to make something that everyone loved but is no longer available and I thought Michael did a really great job so I wanted to give him a special shout out for this and this is something that I think a lot of people have enjoyed and I wanted you and everyone else listening to enjoy it as well

'''Myke:''' it's good to know it's out yeah

'''Brad:''' so I knew of this I knew of these scribe inks I didn't know that they had made tried to make a match for all of the penman series that happened so it's Parker Penman Sapphire is kind of like this one standalone standout ink but there was actually a lineup of I think eight inks but this is it's one of those things where 90% of the volume was probably the blue and then 10% comprised like the seven other colors right it was the Parker Penman Sapphire was the entirety of this ink lineup but there is a whole range of inks they look very very similar to the originals as you would hope they would with the original chemists being involved in trying to work on making a more sustainable less damaging ink that is still just as beautiful as the original so I thought that was a great a great post and I wanted to make sure to share it and give Michael a shout out and thanks for doing that because I learned a lot just from reading and reading and posting that

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'''Brad:''' yeah can I can I before we get to that can I tell you about the esterbrook cosmic wine SD that I just happened to see yes I just

'''Myke:''' saw it too I'm like hang on a minute

'''Brad:''' what are you yeah that caught my eye too Myke you could say I'm through the moon on that one too

'''Myke:''' I mean all I'll say genuinely reminds me of my the galaxy 3776 that I have

'''Brad:''' yep yep exactly it's a really it's a really great

'''Myke:''' stunning pen for a fantastic price

'''Brad:''' yeah I hadn't seen that I hadn't seen that before so what Ron snuck in here which I think I see what he did here he's got some sneaky pelican stuff in here that you shouldn't be able to to this is not your normal pelican sale right so this is your pelican special edition golden barrel this is your pelican suveron black with red stripes this is like your elite tier one pelican stuff that you want to check out you want to get in here browse around this page and you know aside from you know the great fountain pens like these pelicans the always popular for me Karen Dash 849 claim your style ball points in there Myke you know there's just some really really cool stuff as you scroll down there's a retro 51 in there which you rarely see happening there's even a set of pelican rollerballs which I have not noticed before so this is a great great lineup featuring several really really interesting and neat pelican pens so thank you Ron for hooking us up supporting this podcast and taking care of our listeners I appreciate it

'''Myke:''' so that's penshalet.com click the podcast link at the top of the website and enter the password penaddict our thanks to Pen Chalet for the continued support of this show and Relay FM

'''Brad:''' are we actually going to answer some Ask TPA

'''Myke:''' we're going to do a couple yeah and this was mainly because I kind of lost track of the show should have done another ad about 15 minutes ago but here we are so we're going to finish out with some Ask TPA today

'''Brad:''' all right let's do