Editing The Pen Addict 502/transcript (section)

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'''Myke:''' Look at you. This is some professional podcasting right here.

'''Brad:''' Hey, look, I told you I was in the zone today, didn't I?

'''Myke:''' Yeah, and I was so in the zone, I wasn't even paying attention. I wasn't even down with this. And look at you bringing in our good friends at Pen Chalet.

'''Brad:''' Because Pen Chalet sell authentic, amazing roller balls, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, and so much more from all of your favorite brands, like Pilot. But many more, Sailor, Kaweco, Pelican, and more all the time. One of my favorite things about Pen Chalet, they're always adding new stuff. Every couple of weeks, you see new styles of pens from new brands. And it's not just pens, right? It's also the accessories that go with it. So, if you want some ink or some cartridges, you know, bottles or cartridges, maybe you want a fountain pen converter, some cases to put your stuff in, you know, they do really nice pen cases over at Pen Chalet. They have everything. They have fantastic customer service, really fast, really reliable. And they're doing discounts all the time over at Pen Chalet. Every couple of weeks, you're going to find new discounts on new pens. But, of course, there are special discounts available for Pen Act listeners, which I'll get to in a minute. They do free shipping on orders of over $50 in the U.S. And they sell internationally with great shipping rates. Pen Chalet has low prices on high-quality pens. And they offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So, go to penchalet.com. That is P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T.com. And click the podcast link at the top of the website. And use the password penaddict for this week's special offering to get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at Pen Chalet. Now, Ron wanted me to let everyone know they're doing a bunch of special deals because it was Tuesday yesterday. Two, two, two, two, two, two, two. I heard that. So, there's still some deals going on from Tuesday over at Pen Chalet.

'''Myke:''' So, when you go to our penaddict page that Ron sets up for us, you can see the episode 500 giveaway winners. I know we had, I think it was Lisa tweeted us. She got her Bennu and Con Pecky combo. And it looks kind of amazing. I'm actually pretty jealous. It's like, hey, I picked this pen out and maybe I should get it for myself. So, you can do that at penchalet.com. In the deals section, there's some stuff you don't normally see in here. Number one, there's some Retro 51 Tornado Poppers in there. It looks like some of the, is this the train ones? No, Jim Ka. Those are in there. Tuesday is in there. Get it Tuesday. That's the new one for 2-2, 2-22, 2-2, 2-2, 2-20, 22, 2-2. The Gioia, Gioia, pen, Italia, special edition, the Partinope. I believe that's the one, that's a model that Kimberly has reviewed on the blog. She loves them and they are a really good price right now. That's maybe something I'll consider in that Leonardo, Esther Brook, Diplomat range as I get more experience with them in that $150 to $200 price point. It's a really, really cool looking pen. Very good quality and kind of newer to the market. And if you scroll down, Myke, there is a Pelican Suveron 405 Silver White, not to be confused with white silver fountain pen, which is a really, really good price. This is one of the best looking limited editions that Sailor has done. And interestingly enough, Myke, there is a new, not a new brand, but a new retail brand. It looks like Pen Chalet is starting to carry the Ranga pens, which is an Indian brand, which have always been very popular pens.

'''Myke:''' We've been able to get them in the US a little bit, but now it looks like they're maybe getting a little bit more widespread. And they've always been well-received and have good quality. And Ron's got them at a discount. Yeah, they look like a very good, that's something I'm definitely going to have to try. Actually, I might have to go after the show and grab a couple of these for review because they use Ebonite, Myke, is what Ranga is known for. They're Ebonite barrels. At that price? Yeah. That's always been the reaction because we're about to talk about a different Ebonite pen, and they're usually not at that price, as you say. And this is really, really good. So this is worth me personally checking out and get some review models for the blog. I think they'll do very well.

'''Brad:''' So go check it out yourself right now at penshalet.com. Our thanks to Pen Chalet for the support of this show and RelayFM.

'''Myke:''' All right, this next Ebonite pen I wanted to talk about kind of snuck up on me. It's the, ooh, here we go. Tuduria, I believe is the brand name. Tuduria Moonlit Fountain Pen. And this is a Kickstarter pen that a lot of people sent to me once it launched on Kickstarter, said, hey, look at this great new Ebonite pen made in Japan. It's got some interesting features. It's got kind of a standard barrel. It's got some unique grip sections. And it has the option, which is what really struck me, it has the option to be fitted with Sailor or Pilot nibs, I believe. At least Pilot nibs. I'll have to double check the specs. So friend of the show, friend of the blog, Andrew Kuhn, was able to get some samples on behalf of the pen addict and wrote a little preview, review post of the pens. And I wanted to bring these up for a couple of reasons. So it's kind of a dual conversation. One, talking about the pen in general. And two, talking about Kickstarter and how I think about products like this. So this is a new maker. And they have gone through, as best as I can tell from their Kickstarter page, an extensive testing and creation product. And they basically listed out their thinking of how they went through the manufacturing and the final design of this pen, which I always find very compelling, right? From a maker to sometimes, I don't know if you feel this way, Myke, but sometimes when the product is too glossy from the launch, too perfect, I feel a little less uncomfortable. I mean, I feel a little less comfortable kind of backing it. Not backing it, but I was like, yeah, this is like really polished. I mean, that kind of goes against convention. But like I kind of want to see in campaigns, I kind of want to see some blood, sweat, and tears saying, hey, I'm confident that I nailed it because I did all these things and I had problems and I solved the problems. And now here's the product and I am happy. That doesn't mean that the glossy productions didn't go through the exact same thing. But I think all of us, especially like on Kickstarter, you like to see the behind the scenes. How did we get to this final product? Well, that's kind of the point of it, right? Right, but some of them don't do that.