Editing The Pen Addict 314/transcript (section)

== Twisby Go ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Just really great music to help set the, the scene, I guess for the Twisby Go. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So let me try to explain what this is. It's not a piston filler. So, okay. It's a demonstrator. Say, take picture of the eco. For those of you who couldn't watch the video right now, picture a clear barreled eco, but kind of thinner. It almost looks like a platinum, platinum preppy ish size. It looks a little bit thinner than the eco about the same length.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And in the barrel section, there's this spring loaded filling system, like literal spring. Like you see the spring and I'm not talking about a spring, like on the end of a ballpoint pen, where you have just the little, little tiny spring that's engaging the refill. So this is like half the length of the barrel spring to fill up the, to help to use as a filling system for this pen. It is extraordinarily ugly. I think I'm being kind just in, in my perspective, but it could be cool if this is a low end price point pen. Like I could see this being like a fun pen to have. It's got to be priced less than the eco, right? What do you think about this pen?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It has to be cheap. Right. This has to be low end because you couldn't sell this pen looking the way that it does. Because it looks like if MacGyver built a piston filler, this is how it would come out. It is a very interesting idea. And if it is a cheap pen and I'm hoping that this is a cheaper than eco, like this thing is like $20, $15 or something, right? It would be game changing because this would be the example that you could give to people and be like, are you interested in getting into fountain pen inks, right? Like you want to get into that world. Here is the pen for you. It's like a super, it's got a fun mechanism that you can get nicer ones of in the future, but it is a super easy way to like cleanly fill a fountain pen and go for it. Like it doesn't look like it has a very big ink reservoir. Well, because half of the pen is a spring. It's a spring, right? So again, it's like another reason why I think it's cheap, right? Because it would be on the cheaper side because this would be a very, it's a weird pen to sell to people. But it would be a great like ink testing pen as well. I think that it looks very fun, but I, I don't know about it. Like it's with all Lamy, with all TWSBI stuff, all we have is like a video right now. It was like no information, no idea when it's going to market, no idea if it's ever going to go to market, no idea what the price will be, no nothing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So that's always part two of any new TWSBI conversation is does this exist? And we didn't have time to get all the information beforehand. I haven't talked to Sonny, but I mean, Sonny, I trust what Sonny says, but he just provided, he didn't provide any details on the pen. He just provided, Hey, TWSBI sent me this video of this pen, not here's the release date. Here's the price point. Right. So it could be TWSBI vaporware, like, you know, some of their bamboo pens or some of the cool stuff they post on Facebook, which is fine. Like I like them playing around with this stuff, but yeah, this has to, this has to come in sub $20. I'm thinking I hope, I should say, I hope, I don't think it has to, but I would hope that this comes in as a sub $20 pen and I think it will do well.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think, I think it has to, I don't think you can judge that you could charge more than 20 for this. Right. Like, because it's a cool looking pen. It's not a good looking pen. Mm-hmm. Right. Like it's, it's cool in its functionality, but like a huge spring like that with a big plastic like piston is not good. It's not good looking, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's like, well, but if you make the, uh, if you make a solid color barrel to where you can't see it, is it cool anymore? Right. Then they don't sell any probably like.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Exactly. Oh, but that's what I'm saying. Right. That's the cool part. Like the cool part is that it's like super weird, but you know, it's not attractive in the traditional sense.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. It reminds me of like, uh, uh, larger platinum preppy with like more bells and whistles. Like that's what it looks like to me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And that's the market that this one is probably aiming at. Right. And that would be the right kind of idea that it's going for that market. Like Twizby is potentially looking to hear over the last two major pen releases to establish themselves as the low end player as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Right. So that's good. I mean, I, I'm y'all know I'm a Twizby fan. I know not everyone likes them for valid reasons, but, uh, I'm, I'm a big Twizby fan. I will be all over this the moment it releases and I'll be giggling all the way home immediately because it's, I want to see it. I want

'''Myke Hurley:''' to see, I want to try it. I want to see it because as well, I mean, I, I would love to be able to have a pen like this that I could recommend to people. Right. Like that, that, that's, you know, it's kind of perfect. Like sometimes I'm interested in getting into fountain pens. What should I do? It was like, go to this website and pick literally any ink that interests you, buy a bottle of it

'''Brad Dowdy:''' and then buy one of these. No, buy the Twizby Eco. It'll be worth the five or 10 extra dollars.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You don't know that. We don't know that. I mean, I expect yes, but like it's a, it's a good, it just, it's just like another, like, I don't know. And plus as well, I think that this is more to, I reckon to a, to someone who's getting into it, something like this would be more exciting to use. Like it'd be more fun and weird to use than an Eco. Oh, my kids would love this. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And then that's a way to get them into a fountain pens by, you know, seeing how this stuff works.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Absolutely. I'm all about it. So like this mechanism looks way less prone to becoming faulty.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because it's just a huge spring as opposed to twisting parts of a piston.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You're talking about build quality and Twizby in the same sentence. We're going to have to wait and see. Yeah, they've done better. They've, the Eco has had no problems for me, but let's not, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. On that note, Michael, we should probably wrap this week up because we have a plethora of Ask TPA, lots of good questions, but we have two shows to record next week and we'll do a full Ask TPA show. How about that? And we'll save all these questions and we'll protect, we'll get more for next week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So if you have any questions, please tweet with the hashtag Ask TPA. Any questions of any kind, just send them in to us. Or if you're in the pen addict Slack, you can ask them there as well and Brad will collect those up. But tweeting them really is the best way to do it because they get collected into a sheet. Nobody needs to actively save them. Right. So tweeting with the hashtag Ask TPA is great for that. We really enjoy that and it's very helpful to us. If you want to catch Brad online, oh boy, there are a lot of places. You can go to Twitter. He's at Dowdyism. He is penaddict on Instagram and you can go to twitch.tv slash penaddict or you can go to penaddict.com or knock.co as well. All the great places. You can find me on Twitter. I'm at imike, I-M-Y-K-E. If you want to find our show notes for this week, which have a bunch of links, including that video to the Twisby Go in case, in case you need to get to those, relay.fm slash penaddict slash 314. But they should hopefully show in your podcast app of choice. But I know that not, not every app shows show notes. So you can, there's always, there's always stuff there on, on our website at relay.fm. Thanks again to our wonderful sponsors this week, the great folk over at Mac Walden and Harry's. And we'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Bye.

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