Editing The Pen Addict 123/transcript (section)

== Pencil Appreciation ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. This doesn't this doesn't sound like you. But I was all over this one just because number one, I like the it's kind of that old school aesthetic back with like the old Field Notes stuff was based on like the farm notebooks. And those farm notebooks kind of had this partner with them. And it was these bullet pencils that had, you know, different, you know, seed manufacturers brandings or whatever. They just became just like a giveaway item. And then they I don't know if they were like hugely collectible, but there's there's so many of them and it's just kind of a neat old design. It's kind of a repurposed design. And so what they did with this Kickstarter project is kind of repurpose that design and modernize it. You know, it's similar to something called the Midori brass bullet, which is a which is also a pencil pencil holder, if you will, a bullet pencil type holder. So I just wanted to point this out because I thought it was pretty cool. It actually appealed to me a lot just in the design of it. I thought was really nice. And it's going to be it's something that I wanted to try out. So, Scott, we're going to talk about your junking expeditions when we get talking to you. But do you ever run across any old bullet pencils? Do you have any fascination with that at all?

'''Scott Fuller:''' I started to get into I don't know, like I started looking at him after after our little excursion out there. The last time I went up there, I just saw a whole box just, you know, a foot and a half deep just filled to the brim with these things. So I started, you know, you start poking through him a little bit. I'm not probably as into him as you guys, but I have to say I have to say they've kind of they've piqued my interest. They've kind of seen him in the corner of my eye. I don't know what I'm gonna do with him yet. But the colors, the design, the, you know, the craftsmanship on those things are still absolutely beautiful. And I love the twist thing that this guy's going with. I think that's a that's really, really cool, you know, concept of this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah, I think that's I think it's pretty cool. And I'm kind of like you. I'm not like fully into it, but I kind of appreciate it for what it is. And, you know, I can definitely see it like being a problem in the future.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. So but no, it's cool. I wanted to mention that I backed it and it looks pretty cool. So I wanted to to throw that out there real quick. If anyone hasn't seen it, if anyone's into the pencil stuff, this doesn't have a clip

'''Myke Hurley:''' on it, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't think it's like the image. Yeah, I think one of the old designs.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, because I think a clip is what I would want on something like this. Maybe. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I'm not a pencil guy. I mean, even even if his name was Huckleberry Woodchuck, I don't think I'd use it. I never use wood pencils.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'm starting to a little bit. I'm starting to a little bit. So the I don't know if it's the the diametric opposite of a wood pencil, but fountain pens, Myke, would you say that's about as far from a wood pencil as you can get?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just because I did just see the Kickstarter amount just click up a bit. Oh, I don't know. I don't know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But they just they just hit the goal about a couple hours ago. I got the email in my inbox.

'''Myke Hurley:''' In the in the chat room, fuzzy man just got the last one at twenty eight dollars.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You guys are worse than us. You are worse than us.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. We are in your Kickstarters.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. What were you going to say to me?