Editing The Pen Addict 166/transcript (section)

== Ink Brands ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So what inks are you loading these pens up with?

'''Jonathon Deans:''' What's your favorites? I've got to blame Myke Rosen for this as well. The Bung Bops inks, which he sparked the craze on Reddit, which has now led to, I think, Vaness pens in the US sells them now and maybe somebody else. And Bung Bops have had to stop selling them internationally because all the stock is basically just going to international buyers nowadays. They're struggling to keep up. The inks are made by Sailor, but their Bung Bops Sapphire is the perfect blue. I'm not going to disagree with you there. It's pretty amazing. It's a great ink. I also love Montblanc Irish Green. Montblanc inks, by the way, are really underrated. I think a lot of people know the price of those pens and they think, oh, you know, that brand isn't for me. The inks are, I think, $18, $20 a bottle, and they're really good inks. In terms of quality, they flow well, lots of shading, easy to maintain.

'''Jonathon Deans:''' I think they're probably the most underrated ink brand in the market. And Irish Green is just a great shade. If it's wet, it's sort of, it's quite a dark green, but then you get these hints of a brighter green in the shading. It's beautiful.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've had very good luck with their limited inks. I think JFK is one of my all-time favorite inks. I've had less enjoyment with their stock inks like Toffee Brown and Midnight Blue, but maybe I need to branch out a little bit more from those two. I mean, they're certainly, they're wonderful performers. They're just not for my personal taste. But like the JFK may be my number one overall ink. It's right up there with Shinkai for me, which is well known to be my favorite ink.

'''Jonathon Deans:''' Yeah. Well, if you like greens, check out the Irish Green. I think you'll like it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'll have to check that out. And we're going to have to check out more of your work at Fountain Pen Economics. I mean, I think we're just scratching the surface. And I knew this episode was going to be this way. And there's so much more I want to ask you. And there's so many more things we can dig into. I hope you enjoyed it today. And I hope you will consider joining us again sometime soon. I think it's, I think the listeners are going to be clamoring for it after they hear this episode. Yeah, this has been a lot of fun. Well, good. Well, good. We are, we are certainly appreciate you coming on. Why don't you real quick tell everyone where they can find you online, you know, where you like to communicate the most. And we'll go with that.

'''Jonathon Deans:''' The blog's at peneconomics.com. There's links there to the Twitter account and the Instagram account. The Instagram is my favorite. There's such a great community of people on there. And Reddit, I'm drjd16 on there. I'm on there most of the time. Or you can just email me, peneconomics at outlook.com. Yeah. Can I do a quick shout out? Is that cool? Please. All right. Well, I want to give a shout out to Myke and Brian Anderson. Brian Anderson has been an amazing supporter of the blog. He's just always available to have a chat or for me to bounce ideas off. But also my partner, Lisa, it's our anniversary this week. And she is, she's an economist as well. She's at a conference in Hong Kong. She is a big supporter of me doing this. And frankly, she is enormously patient with putting up with my pen nonsense. And I know she'll be listening to this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I just want to say thank you to her for everything she does to help. Well, tell her to bring you back a sweet anniversary present from Hong Kong. You know, stop in one of the pen shops there.

'''Jonathon Deans:''' She sent me a photo of a bag from the Mont Blanc boutique. So it's going to be a long wait until I get to see that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's awesome. That's awesome. And I second your commentary on Mr. Anderson. He's one of the good guys in this business. And I appreciate everything he does, him and Lisa do for this community. And I will hope to give them a big hug when I see them next week in D.C. They're legitimately awesome.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. All right, Jonathan. We appreciate it. And we will be doing this again very, very soon, I feel. And I should just go ahead and start making show notes now for the next time I have you on. Because I didn't even get to everything I wanted to talk about today. So we appreciate you.

'''Jonathon Deans:''' Just have one or two topics and we'll just use that as our jumping off point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right. That's how we do our best work, isn't it, Myke?

'''Jonathon Deans:''' Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Flying by the seat of our pants.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So fly us on out of here, mate.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Talking about the show notes, there's a ton today. Loads of great posts and pens and inks and stuff. And you can find those online at relay.fm slash penaddict slash 166. Or you can find them in your podcast client of choice. They should be in there if you're listening in an app on one of the various platforms available. But you can go and find them on the web. If not, if you want to find Brad's work online, he's over at penaddict.com. And you can also find him. He's penaddict on Instagram. Dowdyism on Twitter. D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M on Twitter. I'm at imike, I-M-Y-K-E on Twitter and Instagram. And thanks again to our sponsors this week, Squarespace, Pen Chalet and Linda. If you enjoy this show, go and check them out because it helps support what we do here. But most of all, thank you for listening. Thank you both for joining me. Brad to you as always. And Jonathan, thank you for your great input today. And I really look forward to having you on again in the future.

'''Jonathon Deans:''' Also, thanks for having me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Until then, goodbye, everybody.

'''Jonathon Deans:''' Goodbye. See ya.

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