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== Notebook Editions ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' the best so the six color six notebook editions and six color editions or any you know I even like the you know the three color editions like um it's like drink local is probably my favorite six color edition or national crop is actually probably my favorite six color edition um unexposed is a six color edition those are always like my favorites and this is right up there because what they did here the exterior cover design is unlike any other book that they've done you'll notice with field notes I have a lot to say about these is that okay

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want you to well look we would have done this yeah

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah this would

'''Myke Hurley:''' have just been part of the show it actually was and I told you they were sponsoring this week so now like we're just gonna Brad's just gonna tell us how much he loves them and so and then we'll round off of a thank you to field notes

'''Brad Dowdy:''' so I literally just got them out my mailbox 30 minutes before the episode right so I've just opened the uh the the cellophane number one they ship in a box like you know you're used to getting your field notes in an envelope the way they design this slip case on them which this slip case is really thick and strong like if you're actually putting in this in the garage like and using this for all the uh intended uses this slip case cover is going to last uh it's gonna it's gonna take a beating it's designed uh that way um the what I was what I was saying before was the cover design is something they don't do very often in general terms and if you look back through all of field notes uh custom lineup the covers just say you know field notes 48 page memo book durable durable materials made in the usa they're embossed they're um

'''Myke Hurley:''' unless it's a custom right

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah unless it's a custom yeah they're they're embossed they're letter pressed they're things like that um the two rivers had a really wild cover america the beautiful had a very non-traditional cover i can think of very few editions that aren't just that don't just say field notes on the front and these the graphic design they did on this is the highlight for me the design of these notebooks it it's like right out my dad's garage in the 70s it's really really cool um the way they did it the each book is a different color like woodworking is brown automotive is yellow gardening is green paintings red plumbing is blue electricals orange and you know these colors kind of relate to things you see in in that space uh for the most part um the plumbing might be my favorite color out of the six with the orange uh electrical maybe second but they're all just so sharp looking and the new paper they're using mike is not just the cover paper it's also the interior so the cover is the craft tone 100 and the inside is the craft tone 70 so this is the thicker paper it's the 70 pound weight paper give me it

'''Myke Hurley:''' um i'm gonna have to buy another two packs aren't i um i haven't

'''Brad Dowdy:''' i since i literally just opened them up before the show i haven't had a time to test it but if you're if you're a subscriber um i also got the workshop reminder magnet which says measure twice cut once and what they did there's this little um six i guess what would you call i don't know if you would even call this a hexagonal logo it's

'''Myke Hurley:''' like a honeycomb

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah honeycomb so the honeycomb's on the magnet but if you notice on the each book the honeycomb is colored in its respective spots so it like rotates around so like the woodworking is in the top right and then the automotive is in the middle right and it just kind of rotates around and then also in the um in the workshop um companion slip case you have a peel and stick toolbox ornamentation kit so it's little stickers with those little logos that are on the front of the cover

'''Myke Hurley:''' when jim told me they were doing stickers i nearly did a backflip you know how much stickers and i've always wanted them to do them and the closest they ever got was the window transfer which is difficult to apply to a computer i tried uh but i'm i'm so happy that i'll get to put stickers on these now

'''Brad Dowdy:''' right so so did you see my instagram picture i put up right before the show i put added in the show

'''Myke Hurley:''' notes no i am gonna go look at

'''Brad Dowdy:''' it now go look now and tell me if you see something that i haven't mentioned yet

'''Myke Hurley:''' take a look no i don't i don't see oh wait what is that that would

'''Brad Dowdy:''' be a field notes notebook sticker it's this little teeny field notes craft cover style sticker that was in my envelope oh my god that's amazing

'''Myke Hurley:''' basically it's like i don't know like a third of the size and it just looks like a little craft that is