Editing The Pen Addict 100/transcript (section)

== Diamine Ink ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah, of course, because they're that type of people. So they're awesome. And when they started this whole diamine ink thing, the first one was deep dark blue. That was it. It was a bottle of deep dark blue. They were going to do like a limited run of it. They weren't sure how it's going to work. And obviously, it's worked pretty well for them because now they have five different colors. And they have cartridges and everything like that. And I use that deep dark blue ink all the time. So it's pretty fantastic. So thank you, Colt Pens. You guys are totally awesome. And, yeah, I order from them. Shipping from the UK to the US has been super simple. So it's been fantastic. And they've been fantastic supporters of the show.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can only imagine how the anticipation must be building because we haven't explained how this is working.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. These prizes are nice, but you don't know how you're going to get them yet, do you?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're going to make you listen. Next up is one of my favorite people on the planet. I have a lot of favorite people on the planet. That's why I asked these people to be part of this show because I have huge respect for so many people in this business and none more so than Mr. Chad Doan of Doan Paper. I don't know what to say about Chad other than I've pretty much been along with him on the ride from the very beginning, it seems, since he introduced his first product. I mean, since he was doing PDFs almost, he started out with just a PDF you could download, his grid plus lines, paper designs. And, you know, that morphed into, you know, the memo book utility journals and it morphed into these great notebooks and all these other products. Now he's making leather goods and everything. So this is one of my all time favorite products, product lines across the board. Chad can do no wrong in my book. And I love the format of his paper. I love the quality he puts into his designs. I love the utility aspect of everything of all the products that he comes up with. So let me tell you what Chad's put into the kitty here for this giveaway. He's donated a three pack of the large utility journals. That's the new that's the newest release, right? The, what's it, about five by seven notebook. It's really killer. I've got one. Five by seven. Yeah, I've got one. Yeah, I love it. I love that size. That's the ideal size for me. I know it's not as portable as like a pocket notebook, but man, I love that size. That layout just really works for me. He's donated a three pack of the small writing pad. But that's the, like the, what do you call it, like the notepad size, just the regular perforated notepads. He's donated one large flapjotter, which is one of his best designs, I think. It's just a large like steno pad of his, with the grid lines paper. A lot of people love that. That's a lot of people's favorite notebook. And then he's donated the one small idea journal, which this is just, if you've never used this idea journal that he has, whoever this, whoever's hands this ends up in, you will be impressed beyond belief by the quality of this notebook. The idea journal is just a knockout product. No one else makes a product like this idea journal. The idea journals that Chad does are one of my favorite products on the planet, bar none. So thank you, Chad. You're awesome. And everyone, you know, needs to check out Dome Paper. And you've heard us talk about it plenty of times. But if you haven't checked it out, please go visit Chad and check out all the cool products that he has to offer.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Next up is Mr. Myke Dudek. Now, the dude is like the perfect example of a listener of the show. Because I would be right in saying, I think, that both myself and Brad first came into contact with Mr. Dudek by him sending something to us. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And he sent the original one, which I can't remember.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Was the original one called The Block?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I think it's just called The Block.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And also the kind of the cool wooden iPhone amplifier stereo thing. Yeah. He sent them both to us and became very active in talking to us every week. And it's to the point where the dude is just part of the show. Yeah. You know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He's flat out blown up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. And we've had him on the show. We've, you know, we love to talk about his products. And he's just sort of the perfect type of listener, really. Because he's very generous, you know, in the things that he's time. And also the things that he's sent to us. And again, for sending something in to us again today. And then he's just become a face, like a friendly face. And he's always got great opinions and insights to give. He now has a pen blog of his own, right? And he's just dived in and has found his niche. And it's become part of the overall community. Because now all of the listeners know if they need to know something about road drawings, well, they go to the dude. And it's kind of like the perfect thing about this little community around this show. And that's why we love Mr. Dudek. And he has very, very kindly donated one of his fantastic pen holders, The Groove. Which is my favorite one. Which is the one that's got the slot in that you can put your notebooks in. It's where I keep my field notes in there. And he's also donated a Donutility Journal as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. That'll fit The Groove. Yeah. This is my favorite design too. It's such a great idea. Completely functional. Completely cool looking. Looks great anywhere. At home. Under office desk. Unless you don't want someone to steal it because it looks that good. I think there'll be some thievery involved.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Handmade. Amazing stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, yeah. This is all Myke doing this work in his garage or his workshop. I mean, he is knocking it out the park with his skills in doing this. And it's great to see. And it's great to see what he's really been. Recently, I've been seeing all these posts about some custom work that he's been doing for a lot of people. So, you know, if you have an idea for a pen holder that, you know, suits your needs the best. Like, I know he's done some for some pencils recently and just some different layouts for different people with larger pens and things like that. Get in touch with Myke. Oh, yeah. You should definitely do that. Yeah. He will totally handle that for you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, if you – the great thing about him is how much he knows about pens now. So, if you, like, say, I want a pen holder that's going to be able to hold a 2580, a, like, Karas Customs retract and ink, you know, like, you just tell him the type of pens that he's got. And he's going to make sure that it's drilled to the right sizes. Yep. Such a great guy. Thank you, Myke.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thanks, Myke. We appreciate it. And, boy, man, these listeners. This is like the mother load. Mm-hmm. And we've still got a ways to go. So, this next company, I have a soft spot for many reasons. And it's JetPens. And JetPens, for a lot of reasons, besides the fact that I used to work for them, I worked for them for about a year, which was a wonderful experience. I learned a lot during my time with them. They were one of the first people to reach out. I started my blog in November 2007. I think by maybe January of 2008, they'd kind of picked up on it just from some of the posts I had done. And our relationship started right then. It's been consistent over the years. They saw enough in me to hire me at a certain point to come work for them full time. They've seen enough even that I no longer work for them to continue to be a monstrous supporter. And my loan – I love them so much that they're the only advertiser I have on my blog. So, that should tell you everything that you need to know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The people that work there are awesome. They go to all kinds of links to make sure their customers are happy. I really respect what they do. The product lines that they carry are bar none the best in the business. They carry – if it's some random thing that you want, they're going to carry it. They carry all the gel pens, all the micro gel pens, which is what I got started with and got the blog started with, up to the fountain pens that I'm using today. And it's been awesome. So, what JetPens has given – and I don't have all the details for a very special reason. They have given a Pilot Prayer fountain pen and a bottle of Pirate Oro Shizuku ink. Notice I didn't elaborate on those, on the specific prayer color, the nib size, or the ink color, because my friend Elaine that works at JetPens wrapped the pen and the bottle of ink in this killer pilot wrapping paper. I forgot I had this on my Instagram. Myke, I'll have to pull up the link, but I have a picture of these two products wrapped. So, this is going to be a surprise when those show up to someone because I don't know what barrel color the prayer is, and I don't know what ink color you're going to get in the Oro Shizuku, but you're going to have some killer pilot wrapping paper to rip open and discover what is on the inside. So, thank you, JetPens, for doing this. It's just really awesome. I appreciate your continued support, and I know a lot of people know and love JetPens, but if you haven't, definitely check them out. They have – yeah, Hydra – that's one of the most Hydra wallet sites on the entire internet, I would say.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's the interesting thing about JetPens. Without JetPens, there'd be no Pen Addict podcast.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There wouldn't.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because this is how we came into contact with each other.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It was when you worked there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Absolutely.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, yeah. Without them. Now, next one is another great friend of the show, massive friend of the show. It's Karas Customs. We've had Dan from Karas Customs on a bunch of times. They're one of the companies that we love to support with what we can ever can do for them with their fantastic products and the Kickstarter stuff that they have. And they've been super supportive of us. And, you know, they're always very kind to share things with us and to work with us. And, you know, they help make this show better by, for example, sending me and Brad early versions of their pens so we can give some killer reviews on the shows and stuff like that. And those sort of things always help. And these guys are so accommodating for us. Again, Karas Customs are a great part of the community because they're this small pen shop in the same way of, like, the dude, right? So, they kind of stumbled into this. And then as they've got sucked in to the pen addict community, you know, Dan is now becoming a pen freak himself. And Karas Customs are just, they are, again, like, everything that's great about the sort of the Kickstarter pen world you can find in these guys. And they're going to be giving away a render K in copper, which is awesome. So, thank you so much to Karas Customs for being so cool, so awesome, and for giving us something to give away to you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, some of our friends are so great that they, I didn't even get the chance to reach out to them to be involved in the giveaway before they said, I want in. And Dan was one of those guys.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And that just makes me so happy. I just, it's mind-boggling. He's like, I want to be part of this. Let me know what you want. Or, no, he didn't say, let me know what you want. He said, let me know what you need me to do. I said, dude, anything you want to donate is awesome. And he came up with the render K copper because they didn't have that. Copper wasn't a render K that was available during the Kickstarter. So, this is a new after post-Kickstarter pin that they've actually just released not too long ago. I think this year. It's that new. So, it's a beautiful pin. I mean, it is awesome. So, Dan, thank you so much for being involved in this and being involved in our podcast and being a guest on some of our episodes. And it's really, really special to have you want to jump in and be involved and give something back to all the listeners of the pin. I know they appreciate it and we appreciate it. So, next up is my friends at Word Notebooks. We've talked about them a bunch on the podcast mostly because Myke and I, you know, not only do we like these analog tools, but we, you know, we also dabble in the digital pretty heavily. And we're into, like, you know, to-do lists and note-taking apps and things like that that make our lives easier. And Word kind of captured a little bit of that in these notebooks to where they have a built-in system for lists. And it just kind of – it kind of – it really hit home with me because it's very simple. It's a very simple idea that's executed flawlessly. The designs that they have are beautiful. They're simple but cool at the same time. They make some of the coolest-looking notebooks, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And the system that they use on the inside, it's very useful for people who are just doing, you know, task lists, to-do lists. But it also came up really prominently back when we did our bullet journal episode when we had Ryder Carroll on, right, about doing the bullet journaling. The word notebook came up as, hey, this thing is almost like a perfect layout for – to do your bullet journaling, Lynn, because it's basically like a bullet point system with, you know, different lines and things for how you work and how you, you know, mark up your tasks and complete them. So they've donated five, three-packs of notebooks in all kinds of different colors, black, orange, natural, and a couple of different camo colors. They're beautiful. And I really appreciate Word being part of this, and thank you so much for doing this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Now, I'm giving something away. This is awesome. Now, I can unfortunately only give away one of these because it's all that I have except my own. There are some editions of Field Notes which are really hard to get hold of. One of those editions is the XOXO Festival editions. So I'm going to be giving away a 2013 Field Notes XOXO Fuchsia three-pack sealed to somebody who listens to this show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's so awesome. When you told me this, I was excited.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would have won that. I felt like I had to give something. Yeah. This is maybe the best thing that I can give.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It didn't even cross my mind. So that's awesome. Thank you for doing that, Myke. I mean, you're the best, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I am – You have a whole company. Well, yeah. We have some NotCo action, and we're not ready to quite give away the cases yet just because we kind of need to finish that whole Kickstarter thing first before I start giving away Kickstarter people's cases. That wouldn't go over so well for me, but we're not going to talk about that right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's a later episode.