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== Pen Materials ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' copper or brass i would i would tend to go for just the copper section or a brass section i would never

'''Myke Hurley:''' go for the full yeah no i mean just the section i like the way the section looks but i don't i don't like holding brass or copper because they leave the smell on your hands and i prefer not to have that

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah i've kind of gotten over it because i i like the pins that i have that are made like that like i use my ink very frequently um with the brass section the iron man style ink and that one doesn't smell but then i have like a um a ti2 tech liner that's full copper and that one does make my hands smell but i don't know i really like the pen it's it's just it's one of my favorite pins and i'll just deal with it you know whatever yeah the caris it's not my favorite thing but i don't know

'''Myke Hurley:''' if i don't know if the guys at caris do anything different but it doesn't leave the smell on my hands but yeah other stuff that i've used does and like yeah i'm not a big dan dan uh dan uh kisses them

'''Brad Dowdy:''' his his special uh his special kiss he's in the he's in the chat room i'm seeing if he's paying attention it's a special kiss before they leave the uh the room uh before they leave the uh the shop there especially dan coated yeah dan coated um so yeah the brass one i have no issue with the brass one he says we make it with love that's why see that's exactly what i was saying dan he was paying attention they make it with love so yeah like my brass uh my brass uh iron man ink it does not uh stinkify my hands so yeah i'm i'm all about this just i will be ordering i'm gonna say two of them just because i at least want a polycarbonate one and then one metal barrel i just got to figure out which which setup i'm gonna go with so so there's that nibs as well so that's good yes and i already have um i saw the the namisu funded today it did uh yeah um so i already have a titanium box for that i ordered a stainless i mean a steel nib with this one so i'll have plenty of nibs so i probably won't buy i'll probably just buy steel nibs for these um for the gist i probably won't buy titanium i don't need i don't have all these pins inked up at once so i'm i'm free to just swap titanium nibs between uh

'''Myke Hurley:''' between pins so yeah that's all right let's follow up on this one next week so you can tell me what one to buy because i'm i'm a bit overwhelmed looking at this right now so okay you can just tell

'''Brad Dowdy:''' me what to get yeah one last kickstarter thing uh the pin shows about 45 percent shipped according to their um according to their uh project update yeah pens p-e-n-x-o it sounds like you're saying pen show like the pen yeah i know i don't know the correct pronunciation uh pen shoe pen but anyway that uh sweet sweet uh pencil so have you have your do you have yours yet no it's on the

'''Myke Hurley:''' way though i have a shipping reference okay well it's in the uk so it should be here in the next two days i just checked it right now it's in the uk so okay well you're you're ahead of me because i don't have a shipping notification yet so i think i backed mine before you didn't i well maybe it might have been because it was they kind of got all messed up when people were changing their colors and then

'''Brad Dowdy:''' some of the colors went out and some of them well yeah that's a self-inflicted wound right they just kept expanding the color range and i will say i will say someone got their green one in and i'm kind of regretting i didn't get the green one right now it was pretty awesome looking at this point i literally

'''Myke Hurley:''' cannot remember what one i got i guess it's gonna be a surprise to me i think i got the black with the

'''Brad Dowdy:''' red i think i did i think we might have gotten the same thing yeah because it looked really great in the video yeah it really did and then that was before they started adding all this extra stuff so yeah yeah all right let's talk about one another one of our good friends and then we're going to get into some uh some field notes uh goodness yeah deep field notes stuff and badness yes and badness

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' you get your fractures in nice all right so we got uh we got some good field note stuff uh the past week you know aside from the um shenandoah edition which i'm i'm still enjoying very much i i've used the whatever the brightest green color one uh is i've been using it uh religiously with a pencil for of all things i think it's uh mostly pencil filled so far but there was um a great uh over on the field notes group there was a great uh ama with uh jim kudal and field notes group sorry on facebook for uh jim brian and i forget the other uh other guy that was um that was answering questions though that works there as well i apologize but um if you want to if you're a field nut like uh like i am and like mike is you know you can go check out um all these questions and you know what brian and jim have to say what insider information you're going to get did you read through that whole thing mike i skimmed it yeah i actually sat down and read through the entire thing um after it was done i wasn't around when it was actually going live but um there's some really good really good questions some really good answers um within there so if you're a field notes fan at all and want to know what uh jim and brian uh are up to you should go check it out and one of the things they mentioned in there someone said hey you haven't done um any of the the annual colors recap videos that they started to do and brian was like you know what i'm pretty sure we recorded it and never published it so what he it was like six months ago they actually made this video then until this ama they forgot to

'''Myke Hurley:''' publish it so now they've released it is that how this worked published it and on their vimeo page it

'''Brad Dowdy:''' says uploaded six months ago but they never announced that it was actually there no yeah

'''Myke Hurley:''' that's well no they never published it it just they just uploaded it and left it

'''Brad Dowdy:''' so until someone mentioned that in the ama like hey where's the where's the video from 2014 you know where you you know go through all the the things you did he's like yeah you know what we recorded that a long time ago i should probably publish that that's just priceless i mean so that video i've watched the video so i haven't seen it yet you just i didn't even know it was out so you you you

'''Myke Hurley:''' taught me something it was just 21 minutes and they cover um shelterwood uh arts and sciences ambition and uh unexposed so it was really great um that's a wide that's a interesting batch of four right there yeah that's that was an interesting year right what a year um so they uh the main kind of thing that i took away from this because there wasn't a ton of real interesting tidbits i mean one of them is that they mentioned again that they could be looking at a larger size as a standard in the future um which i please i please please guys please um i'm running low on those arts and sciences now and it's making me sad to think that i'm gonna run out of them um but it's watching these videos i love these videos so much because you get such a sense of the incredible care and attention that they put into every single one of these they tell the stories of little things that happened during the way or you know i mean i love jim and brian doing this together because they really approach these things from a very very different place um because like brian will talk about like the particulars are doing this and the particulars are doing that and then like jim kind of he breaks it down it's like the way it makes him feel and and like why he loves to do things this way and that way and it's it there's such a great pairing for it because yeah they just approach it in such such uniquely different but kind of the same way that they're plus it's great together i love both of those guys and right we really really need to try and arrange uh to have to to talk to them again i think we'll do it yeah oh for sure we i feel like we talk about this every now and then but like we did i want i want us to think of some really good reason like you know like because we could just sit and do this ama with them right like we could do that we me and you could just sit and wax lyrical with them for ages but i would love to i don't know maybe like we could we could see if they'd be interested in doing this but like trying to talk to them about from beginning to end what it takes to to create an addition that might be quite fun so here here's a brainstorm and we haven't