Not Another Pen Podcast

Alternative Titles

• Yoss said at least three dumb things

• Brownie doesn’t know what pacing is

Intro

• Send us an email at [email protected]    

What are we writing with

• Brownie: Lamy 2000 with an Extra Fine nib and KWZ Hawaii Blue on a BOND Travel Gear Tomoe River A5 notebook

• Yoss: Two Newest pens: Delta Gallery Blue Moon/Factory Stub/Chesterfield Siam and an OMAS Paragon/052 nib/Diamine Ancient Copper on my Hippo Noto.

Banter

• Brownie

  • Med school is hard

  • Also, I’m now into watches

  • Some cool stuff that I’m looking into starting over my break

• Yoss

  • Working, working, & working

  • I’m working off some weight, lost ~15 lbs this year.

  • I mostly stopped drinking!

Main Topic - How have you done with your pacing decisions from earlier this year?

• Yoss

  • I bought a pen. It was a piston filling Delta. Something I really wanted and found it at a good price.

  • Inks, well yeah…I bought more inks! Dang good looking exclusives like Fire on fire, Diamine German inks, etc.

  • I have been getting rid of some pens in a “mailing them to newbies” like Kondo event, in some servers I’m a part of.

• Brownie

  • I say I want to pace but I do the exact opposite

  • I have moved more towards collection pieces instead of just mass acquisition, things to round out the collection

  • I will most likely doing a mass sell off of the stuff that isn’t in storage when I get back in the country, both pens and watches, which will lead into my real hiatus (mostly hiatus)

Social Media

• Brownie’s Insta

• Yoss’ Insta

• Yoss’ Discord

• Brownie’s Discord

• [email protected]

Alternative Titles

• Got you that lemon pepper wet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLQO6UYTt58)

• “Let me keep my headcanon”

Intro

• Send us an email at [email protected]

What are we writing with

• Brownie: Pilot Stargazer, Fine nib, inked with a Pilot Blue cartridge, on a Rhodia #16 dot pad

• Yoss: OMAS Galileo Galilei Fine-Medium, Inked Diamine Jalur Gemilang, on a Hippo Noto

Banter

• Brownie:

  • New developments in my life: MED SCHOOL

  • Now living in a new country, but only for two years

  • Cut down to just 19 pens (for this semester)

• Yoss:

  • How was Christmas?

  • Life changes, grandma passed after Christmas

  • Tons of fun

Main Topic - At what point do you feel like you’ve reached a stopping point?

• Yoss

  • Recent acquisitions made me reconsider more purchases

  • I’m not writing as much anymore is making me reconsider more pens

  • I’ve been thinking about selling more

  • I’ve actively filled out the bookcase for ink

  • I think I’m hitting full saturation of pens & inks

• Brownie

  • I’m at a point where taking all my pens with me isn’t really practical

  • But do I need all 200 some pens? What about the 200+ bottles of ink and 100+ samples? (yoss probably says no, and so does brownie)

  • I’ve been selling more and acquiring less, with only a few pens that are actively on my radar

  • I feel like if you have reached a point where you are comfortable with your collection, it doesn’t mean that you stop acquiring, just actively doing it.

Social Media

• Brownie’s Insta

• Brownie’s Discord

• Yoss’ Insta

• Yoss’ Discord

• [email protected]

Intro

• Brownie

  • Went home for Thanksgiving

  • Got some samples and inks from you and Sandra, and Zenmarket

  • Ralph pens showed up

  • Bought VP #19

  • Finals time

  • Brownie loves Smokey Quartz woof

• Yoss

  • I met up with Sandra

  • Received the exclusives from Brownie and sent of his.

  • Got a Voyager, bought and sold an OMAS in the same day.

• Holidays

Main Topic - Starter pens

• Brownie

  • Pens

    • Chinese might be the way to go

    • Personally started with Parker 15, then went to Parker Urban, then collected, but didn’t know better, don’t recommend this at all

    • Would probably recommend a Platinum Preppy for ease, then something like a Metropolitan, shudder Safari, Eco, Moonman, WS 698

  • Inks

    • Definitely go with Diamine and Waterman

    • Would have said Sailor in the past, but now that they’re more expensive, I don’t think it’s the best option

    • Stay away from pen cancer like OS

  • Paper

    • Rhodia, Clairefontaine, BnR, Fabriano

• Yoss

  • Pens

    • I started off with a Safari

    • I gave Metros, ecos, and WS pens away

    • Chinese wouldn’t be the wat

  • Inks

    • Diamine

    • Noodlers

    • KWZ

  • Paper

    • Clairefontaine

    • Rhodia

[Images](https://imgur.com/a/W0SzB0N)

Social Media

• [Brownie’s Insta](https://www.instagram.com/dsabharwal326/)

• [Brownie’s Discord](https://discord.gg/Vt2Uv9n)

• [Yoss’ Insta](https://www.instagram.com/yossagram/)

• [Yoss’ Discord](https://discord.gg/NubE58M)

Lamy is bad, and you should feel bad.

Intro

• Brownie

  • New inks

  • Additive pens

  • Bungubox Witch the Third

  • Homo Sapiens

• Yoss

  • New Aurora

  • New inks

• FPD was recent

  • Acquisitions

Main Topic

• Lamy is bad (Brownie)

  • Nib is inconsistent at best

  • Body don’t feel right and aren’t really balanced

  • Feel: what feel? The nibs literally feel like nothing on paper. There’s no character!

  • Grip surprisingly not an issue since I actually like it and it is my grip

  • Dialog 3 and L2k are the only ones that fit my hand

  • Inks: Dark Lilac is only good ink, everything else is poop

• Lamy is ‘ight (yoss)

  • First pen was a safari

  • Loved a 2k before I found da way (OMAS)

  • Still thinking about another 2k.

  • Ehhhhhhhh Everything else is bad.

  • Inks? Dark Lilac, Turquoise is ight. I like

Show update

• Now on iTunes and Google Play!

Social Media

• Brownie’s Insta: https://www.instagram.com/dsabharwal326/

• Brownie’s Discord: https://discord.gg/Vt2Uv9n

• Yoss’ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yossagram/

• Yoss’ Discord: https://discord.gg/NubE58M

Images: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KecFugCbyv2jlgaBXh_QAmFdgutuoKSQ

HELLO AND WELCOME TO NOT ANOTHER PEN PODCAST

Email us at: [email protected]

Yoss Intro

• Anything new?

  • F1 Race in Austin

  • Cult Pens order

Brownie Intro

• Anything new?

  • Mental torture with school.

  • Our group buys that we’re both doing and the struggle

  • Bought two new Vanishing Points since the last episode (oops)

  • Buy my pens! Also Yoss’s, but mine first!

Catch up

NOTE: About Yoss and the 88, W&G caused no issue with the holding capacity. The pen dripped before having W&G fix it, and now that it properly pull ink into the body, the pen has become more of a laughing topic for Yoss. Both hosts have had work done by W&G and would recommend him to you.

Topic Introduction

• What we daily carry

  • Pens

  • Cases

    • Yoss

      • FC 20 

      • Girologio 12 (rarely it’s not tall enough)

      • POONDA!

        • https://www.instagram.com/p/BpKd6rolmtR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

        • https://www.instagram.com/p/BpKeHMoFxC4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

        • https://www.instagram.com/sharpeleatherwork/

    • Brownie

      • FC Lucky 13 Boot Leather Brown

      • Visconti 12 Black 

      • Rickshaw Walden Model 3 Houndstooth

      • Rickshaw Hemingway 6-pen roll Blue

      • Pilot Pensemble Brown

• Paper

  • Yoss

    • Rhodia 18s

    • HIPPO

    • Right now: I do show notes in Life or a Black n Red.

• • • Brownie

      • Rhodia #18

      • Clairefontaine Notebook

      • Rhodia Meeting Book

      • Rhodia #16

      • Taroko Breeze

      • Birmingham Tomoe River Passport

  • Ink choices?

    • Yoss

      • I like Blue, 29.1% of my inks are Blue. 12.8% are Purple.

      • Chesterfield Zircron, Diamine Blue Velvet, Colorverse Quasar & Supernova, KWZ Hawaii Blue, Menthol Green, Straights’ Poor Man Sapphire are among personal favs.

    • Brownie

      • Dark and dusky colors, mostly blues and purples

      • Love Eternal Blue and Yama Dori. Really like Sailor Shigure, Montblanc Irish Green, Blackstone Barrier Reef Blue, and Akkerman Dutch Masters 12.

      • Everything and anything Sailor basically.

• Social Media

  • Brownie’s Insta: https://www.instagram.com/dsabharwal326/

  • Brownie’s Discord: https://discord.gg/Vt2Uv9n

  • Yoss’ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yossagram/

  • Yoss’ Discord: https://discord.gg/NubE58M

• Shoutouts

  • W&G Pen Co (fixed Yoss’ Aurora 88)

    • https://wgpencompany.wordpress.com/

    • https://www.instagram.com/wgpenco/

• Images

Discussing one of the most polarizing pens in the hobby: the Pilot Vanishing Point

“Not Another Pen Podcast “NAPP”

Intro:

-Welcome message

    - Explain the name change

-Intro us

-Anything new with us

Topic (VP) intro
Our experience with VPs (use, ownership)

-Yoss - bad experience initially

-Brownie - first gold nib, first over-100 pen, first over $300 pen with the raden galaxy, currently own 16 with 3 having custom grinds

History on the VP (http://carmenriverapens.com/Vanishing_Point_images/index.htm)

• Was originally called capless, still persists in Japanese versions of the pen

• Debuted in November 1963 as a twist action (like the modern fermo) and had an aluminum nib

• Second version came out in December 1963 and was a gold-filled version of the same design

• Became a click-action pen in the May 1964 release, dominated the history, first iteration of the modern design

• May 1968 had a unique sliding cap mechanism that only lasted in this model, incredibly rare and one brownie’s grails

• Truly modern design debuted in December 1998

• The twist action came back in September 2006 as a Japan-only release called the FERMO

-opinions

 -Yoss - traded mine for a parker 51 set, clip placement, grip issues, dislike of the CC

 -Brownie - The convenience, sheer number of finishes, easy nib swapability, cartridge makes it easy to fill worst case scenario, grip actually works in my favor because that is my grip

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Email for questions: [email protected]

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