Editing The Pen Addict 143/transcript (section)

== Ink Colorways ==


'''Dan Bishop:''' Yeah. And that happened. Actually. It's funny. Because. One of the colorways. That we. We sell. Is the gray ink. And online. Everybody kind of looks at it. And goes. Ugh. You know. And they just. Because nobody buys them. You know. And. At the show. I took one. And I put a. A copper grip section in it. And I put it out on display. In one of our little. Our display cubes. That everyone kept trying to steal. And or buy.

'''Dan Bishop:''' But. So. I put it out there. And people would open it up. And they're like. This is awesome. You know. And we sold. I think we only brought like. Six. And we sold them like. In the first day. Even. And it was super slow. Otherwise. And so. It comes Saturday. Everyone's like. Do you have any of these? Or. Or whatever. And we're like. Sorry.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're gone. You talked me into the gray. Years ago. On the. Render K. Because I was buying a gift for someone. And the first. My first choice. Wasn't in. I was. And you said. Man. You need to check out this gray. I promise you. You will like it. And I got it. And before I sent it off. To the person I was giving it to. I was like. Holy crap. You were right. The gray is. There's really a legit. Looking color. In person. It may be hard to relate. Online. But. It's a. I can confirm. That's a pretty sweet pen.

'''Dan Bishop:''' Yeah. It's. Color is such. A subjective thing. Too. And every. To every batch. That you get back from anodized. Can be a little bit different. So. Like you said. We had some. Some variations. With the orange. The orange. From the. From the inks. Wasn't as bright. As it had been in the past. Because the vendor. Had sold the business. To another person. And. So we've been chasing orange. You know. For a while. And. So we didn't have any orange. We didn't have. Any blue. Because we'd sold out of them all. People kept buying them. From Kickstarter. And losing them. So we ran out. And.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Orange and blue man. I'm telling you. See. Mine were orange and blue. You guys did something. Like self-destructing. Or something. I don't know. So.

'''Dan Bishop:''' But. Yeah. We. People. Seeing things on the internet. Is. Is entirely different. Than handling them in person. We had several people. Yeah. Come by. And pick them up. And go. Whoa. These are so different. Than what I expected. And. You know. I got to run down. To. You know. Nibs.com's booth. And like. Look at all the Nakias. And like. Open up the titanium one. And look at it. And then run back to my booth. Like. Nothing happened.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I saw the pictures. Of the Nibs.com stuff. It was. Pretty. Pretty cool. Pretty cool stuff.

'''Dan Bishop:''' Well. Some of the. I mean. The pen world. Is so crazy. I mean. There's. You know. I saw everything. From Nakias. You know. Where. Completely understated. You know. You know. Lacquered pens. To. You know. Like some of the Montegrappa. You know. The chaos pen. The Sylvester Stallone. Chaos pen. Oh god. Yes. Yeah. So. Yeah. I. I want that poster. On the wall. If any reader. Can get me the chaos poster. I'm going to forge his signature on it. And put it up on my office wall.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Is that the one where he's like. Kind of standing to the side. He's flexing. He's like.

'''Dan Bishop:''' Yeah. Oh this pen. Yeah. I don't want my pen. I'm going to find it. And put it in the shot.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's so good. That. Talking about that pen. Never gets old. I've never seen one in person. So that's awesome.

'''Dan Bishop:''' No. But it was. It was interesting. I mean. You go to the show. And you see all. All kinds of characters. Oh. And here's one thing I need to ask. The pen community. So. One thing there was an abundance of. At the show. Was older guys wearing. Fly fishing vests.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I saw that. A lot of that in London.

'''Dan Bishop:''' Well. What's. Well. I mean. I never saw anybody utilize. The pockets. Maybe. I mean. Maybe. I'm not. You know. Watching these guys constantly. But I'm thinking. Is this some kind of. Pen vendor uniform. That I'm not aware of. Because. I'm just a Bass Pro Shop. Like. Two miles from the shop. And I can. You know. I can get her done. So.