Editing The Pen Addict 201/transcript (section)

== King of Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mostly, mostly because they've never really branched out in the King of PEN lineup. It's always just been black. Then they did like a demonstrator model, but it might even had gold trim. They might have done one with rhodium plating.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But they've never they've never done one in this color. Now they're starting to come out with some more. And then that's that's when it really started speaking to me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's very impressive.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm but just maybe because I didn't really get to use it very much or I don't really know a lot about it. It seems just like a very expensive pen. And I don't I don't really get it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You're thinking you're thinking is it is it really worth what you paid for kind of thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's kind of what I'm trying to ask you about saying that. Sure. That's understandable. I mean, how does it differ from a pro gear? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's just bigger in every way. It's got a little bit different built in internals to hold the cartridge in it. So it's got like more mechanism in it, if you will. The nib is probably twice the size. So there's a lot of materials there. The cap band has a lot more engraving and detail on it. So it's just lots of little things adding up into like one hugely awesome pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' OK, I'm struggling with this one. Yeah, I understand that. It's very impressive to see. I just I'm just wondering, is it like four times as good as a pro gear?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's a personal decision, I guess. Right. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, but look, we we all spend crazy amounts on these things. I'm not trying to criticize you. I'm just trying to ask, you know, I'm just trying to wonder. I mean, I thoroughly recommend the pro gear. I don't know if I I don't know if I glossed over this or whatever, but there are some you can get some pro gears on pen chalet. And there are one hundred and fifty six dollars right now. And you can use our coupon. They're not sponsored today, but you know all about it. So I'm just just mentioning this. I'm going to put that in the show notes. I was just looking to see if they had anything. And, you know, I thoroughly recommend the pro gear. So you should go get it. And then maybe if you really love your pro gear, you can buy King of Pen, which is the funniest name to me. I love it so much. King of Pen. It's like so matter of fact, because I would say King of Pens. Right. Or something like that. But I just love that it's just King of Pen. Like, apparently I found out that is it Sailor or Bung Box have an ink called Tears of Clown?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Which is, you know, again, just another just beautiful name that when I guess it's when they are translated, they just lose a little bit. Right. And then, but it makes them sound so much cooler. Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Tears of Clown. Yeah, so the chat room is asking, the King of Pen is one of Sailor's options where you can get all their fancy nibs, like all the names I can't pronounce that do all these great things. And I didn't want any of that. I don't like those. Those nibs end up being, number one, they would add a great amount of cost to an already very expensive pen. And number two, they don't really fit my writing style because they're all very wide, very wet, and I don't like that at all. So I got a stock medium nib on this pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So here's my now thinking about this. Really, really, this is like Anakaya.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because you can buy a platinum pen for like $200. Mm-hmm. And the nibs are, you know, in some instances the same as what you'll get spending $800 or $900 for Anakaya. Right? I'm right in saying that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Correct. You're correct in saying that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So this is kind of like Anakaya. So now, because I'm just trying to work it through in my head, right? Mm-hmm. And I feel like I can kind of see why you've done it now. Because it's like in the same reason that you'd buy a Anakaya, right? You buy them for everything about them. Right. And I guess, because I have to say that when I looked at that King of Pen, I was kind of astounded by it. It's a very impressive thing because it is so large. It's like larger than life. Mm-hmm. Because it looks just like a pro gear in the photos. Right. But when you see it, you could club someone with it. It's massive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's definitely been to like the Russian sports complex to get its dose of steroids. That's for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Man, that's a beautiful metaphor.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, it is. It's just like a pumped up on roids pro gear.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And you got an ink for it as well? Yeah. So I had the, I don't know how to pronounce the Sutin, S-O-U-T-E-N, Sutin Salton. There's probably neither. But it's a nice blue ink. This was theoretically the replacement for Sky High that didn't live up to the Sky High hype. So I've just been holding off on it. But I thought this was kind of a perfect match for this pen. So I went ahead and bought a bottle of it. And it's a really, really nice blue. So it was kind of the perfect match.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So do you usually do this? Do you usually buy, you usually buy inks that match a big pen purchase?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Kind of. Like I bought the pink ink for my pink pen, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That's what I mean. Like, cause you got a pink and then you bought a blue ink for the blue pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I do that a lot. So like my G10, my orange G10, I've only ever inked it with orange inks. It's not the same orange ink, but it's always orange inks. It's just, it's a mental thing. You know, I, it's hard for me to use my orange pen with a green ink and nothing against green inks, which I use plenty, but it just doesn't work for me mentally.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think I might start doing stuff like that.