Editing The Pen Addict 158/transcript (section)

== Caran D'Ache Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' how it writes yet but um it's really really good looking so um i i'm gonna i'm gonna dig more into uh maybe that uh caran dash uh pencil and and see what i like the another thing that arrived uh from another spot another past sponsor note geist i i like to use our sponsors might not just i mean for obvious reasons they're sponsoring our show because they carry awesome stuff so of course i'm gonna buy from them um but i also want to be able to talk to our customers uh or our customers our listeners about the experience of being a customer of these people that you know are sponsoring our show right they want to know our feedback on that so i placed an order on saturday from gary at note geist i ordered these palomino graphing flex notebooks which i had never used before um they're like a standard memo book size and i wanted to try those out they're really beautiful um so i ordered those or a pack of black wing erasers because i wanted some orange erasers in my black wing pencils that i use i also ordered the cole usa cap which i didn't put in the picture um which gary had that on closeout it's always like half off something like 18 bucks so i bought that and then gary threw in some other cool stuff for me to try the uh adventure log from word um one of the paper o mini notebooks um that's the black and red dotted one and then gary has these uh wooden pencils that he throws in um threw into the order it's just like a a naked wood uh note geist pencil which is really really nice so what i found ordering from note geist and and maybe gary uh did me a solid because you know he threw some extra stuff in there i ordered it on saturday it showed up monday which is just sick that's awesome um shipping time is is is crazy good uh from gary so thank you for getting those out so i used uh whatever our we had a pin at it code for that one um i use that um art snacks i pay full freight for that just like any other customer note geist i use the coupon caris customs i also use one of their coupons to order the iron man inc which i've been waiting on good luck so i i keep when they sponsored us and this last time i kept saying okay now is the time for me to order because you know i can get a little bit off on it and i kept forgetting kept forgetting and it finally got right down to the end of the month i'm like oh crap i need to place that order and luckily they still had them in because they're really sold out on a bunch of these um a bunch of the inks and uh i got it in yesterday so i haven't even had a chance to ink up ink it up yet but it's there it's really pretty too the red their anodizing is just it's killer they should

'''Myke Hurley:''' give apple a lesson or two i think

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah yeah so i'm i'm gonna enjoy using that pen um that's the thing you know get i get all this stuff and then i it's sometimes it takes me a few weeks to get to get them in the rotation because you know i try to use the other things i have in the rotation like if i have pens inked up i'll try to you know not waste ink and and run through them so i got this caris custom ink in and it might be a couple weeks before i get it even inked up because you know i don't want to be wasteful and and uh dumping out of some of my other fountain pens that are inked up and i don't need 20 fountain pens inked up exb pen wraps is it's elizabeth bowling she's uh since she's out of nashville she makes these uh these very unique a lot of japanese fabric pen wraps that thomas hall got me into um he when he would ship me his pens he would send them in elizabeth's wraps because they help protect the pens and they roll up really nicely so i have ordered like four of them from her now they hold well there's like three slots they could hold more than three pens uh depending you know how much you wanted your your pens to touch but i just use them for three they roll up real nice um it's beautiful fabrics and this last time i ordered from her mike she threw in an extra one that's going to be headed your way probably this weekend oh that is that is not pictured she said she wanted to do that for you and uh i said i will get it to him so um look for one heading your way uh hopefully i will get that out to you this weekend but if y'all haven't if you're looking for a pen wrap i know i sell pen cases at knock this is a very complimentary product you know it's it's a very soft pliable wrap um it's very different than like what we sell at knock so you know if you're looking for something like this definitely check out what elizabeth does she just she just does it as a hobby um she has a website you can check out and um and look at all the fabrics and things and uh she does a really really good work and uh i i love these wraps so my mailbox uh my ups driver is probably pretty ticked at me because that's like half of what i've got uh just in the past like four days so let's talk about what else i can order mike before i before i uh wrap up this uh this whole mailbox uh issue i'm having right now

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah it's uh stipula is a an italian manufacturer and they make a uh it's like a mini fountain pen um say think like the uh caveco sports caveco classic caveco al sports it's like a uh it's about that size pen i've never used one i think i i've held one and and and looked at one at uh pen show before and you know i was thinking they're usually like a hundred and something yeah they're usually like 105 um and you know depending on how the drop goes you can get it down to 64 99 which is is pretty sweet so i i would look into this um you know if you're looking for like a a small portable fountain pen it's uh yeah it's about the size looks about the size posted of a of a caveco al sport but unposted it looks a little bit shorter um i haven't used one more than that um can i riff on this for a second i'd love you to one of the things that mass drop does that we don't talk about uh or haven't talked about before is they sell a lot of paper like they do a lot of rhodia stuff where you can buy like if you're a rhodia fan they have like the webbies like two packs of webbies and and three packs and all these different kinds of paper packs um that are really good deals too so if if not just into pens but if you're into paper um they do some do some good deals on that so keep your eye keep your eyes peeled for the paper drops as well because they have some they have some rhodia stuff up there right now that looks pretty good

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' the show so you need to get uh federico to uh to edit that in yeah she just dove him in yes all right so today was the day of my pending arrival of my franklin christoph amber ice model 20 that i teased last episode um and i got it also about 30 minutes before we started recording this podcast so i haven't had a chance to ink it up just had time to take a picture and throw it on instagram it's uh it's pretty much all all i expected it to be it's a really cool barrel um i love the shape and the slip cap design of the model 20 marietta which is what this is this is a new design for franklin christoph and in talking with laurie they were experimenting with this amber color ice and this is a prototype of that and they may not be coming to market with it they don't know yet she was kind of leaning towards no that it wasn't going to exist um so i i'm super happy to get my hands on it um i paid full price for it and in uh disclosure but she did throw in some uh ink samples and some paper for me um which was nice thank you laurie so um what do you think about this pen mike

'''Myke Hurley:''' i'm so jealous of you what a color like it's i mean i guess if we talk about it enough and like maybe we can bully frank and christoph into making it more so we can all buy them i don't know but

'''Brad Dowdy:''' that's kind of my uh beauty that's kind of what i'm thinking i'm thinking along the same lines because they actually had some pictures up from the uh raleigh pen show where they had this for sale at their table and they just didn't sell it um so she told me if they didn't sell it she would get in touch with me and sell it to me um they also had some other like prototype type colors that they were doing in other models in ice and like one of them they did so the same amber ice but with like a red i don't know is it finial the right words like the end caps on it so it'd be like a solid end cap on it um that looked pretty neat too so you'll see you'll see a lot more about this pen just because i have to ink it up and and get it used um and i'm i'm sure pretty sure i'm gonna love this one and um hopefully we can twist their arm into making this a real thing yeah i'm very jealous of you yeah friend of the show and i can't believe i hadn't i keep forgetting to photograph these friend of the show ben quok who made us the fiend notes remember that back in the day mike you bet oh man that's such a ben is such a legitimately good guy he like he saw some like stickers i had like the sassafras and you know the pen addict stickers and things like that he's like hey do you want to do a sticker exchange i'm like sure ben you know i i love you and your work is awesome and i have one of your stickers on the front of my laptop right now so i sent him like these little small stickers that i had and i was like here you go and like two weeks later which was like a couple days ago i get this package from ben and it's like a half inch thick full of his stickers so um if anyone uh is getting something from me in the near future i'm going to be sure to uh slip in some of ben's uh stickers in there because these are not stickers in the traditional like two inch by two inch stickers these are like five inch by four inch stickers i mean you see them right i've got some on my laptop yeah they're about the size of your hand right about the size of your palm and fingers these are and not just that ben's work is spectacular oh gosh it's mind-blowing um so if you're not familiar with it go familiarize yourself with uh bioworks.com in atlanta um when we had the party

'''Myke Hurley:''' people were doing a field note swap and i brought my fiend notes that he made people were going crazy

'''Brad Dowdy:''' for it i didn't even know you brought that that's awesome very cool very cool um so i i put the field notes up there so that image is up there which we we shared a little bit ago and then the last thing i got which is the most frivolous the most non-analog the most thing i least needed is that even english is that a proper sentence we'll go with that it's the apple watch yeah you go on this isn't the show for this but i'm pretty i i had no intention of buying one yet i i knew i would end up with one eventually maybe whether it was next version whether it was down the line whatever i wasn't like super interested like in being like a first um what do they call it early adopter yeah early adopter on the watch i'm an early adopter on lots of things um the watch i felt like i could wait on and then our friend jason snell um being the apple fiend that he has is he ordered two to see which one he liked best so i got his i bought his uh the one he didn't like which actually would have been the one i ordered the uh sport um and uh i'm really impressed with this thing so i bought a green band a couple of days ago i like it so i said if i was gonna buy one myself i would have bought the aluminum sport with the white band i think the green band was actually the better choice i like it um i think i would have liked i like it better than the white and i would

'''Myke Hurley:''' have ordered the white if i was ordering crazy thing buy some more because this is madness the bands the different colors they feel different huh they have different properties to them so like the i find the green i have a green blue and white now the blue is the softest the white has a really interesting texture feeling to it which is really comfortable feeling and the green is the most sturdy it's the most rigid okay and apparently from people that i know they say that everyone says that the black one feels the best so i am going to pick one of those up as soon as i can

'''Brad Dowdy:''' track one down so they clearly need an orange one that's what they're missing well there's this picture

'''Myke Hurley:''' floating around i don't know where it came from but it's legit of an apple store and they've just got this like array of colors nice yeah you figure you gotta figure that's coming they're gonna have tons like don't do them all at once you know you can piece it out yeah so that's my that's my digital

'''Brad Dowdy:''' uh digital foray into this analog uh do you like it do you like it i way better than i thought i would and not that i would thought i would dislike it i was like what you know what my hesitancy was is how i'm going to use it what am i going to use it for and do i want to spend the money um and i find myself using it way more than i thought um for texting alone the voice recognition is impeccable i text from it constantly with uh with a voice you know just dropping a hey siri on it you know text my wife whatever or replying to text she sends or anyone sends it's and people don't have a clue that i'm you know texting from my watch and that's all uh voice recognition and a text and uh i've used the heck out of that so i am more than i'm way more happy than i even thought i would be i knew i would enjoy it and i knew i would you know be able to tell time with it um i'm actually using it um more than i anticipated so far and it's only it hadn't even been a week yet and i really really enjoy it very happy with that um so that kind of wraps up i it's weird talking about this a little bit right because it's like talking about spending money and like you don't talk about spending money it's just one of those things you don't like it's a little bit weird when i look back at myself like what did i do to myself this past week but you know i'm having fun i i enjoy using all this stuff i will use all this stuff i may not uh get to all six field notes in the workshop companion you know but i will be using some i give i give lots of stuff away that i purchase you know to you know i throw things in envelopes when i'm shipping stuff to people and give lots of stuff away so i use it for that and um you know i'm i'm happy to get all this stuff and uh even though it's stuff you don't need to live by right it's a hard it's a interesting it's an interesting meta conversation like i said earlier like how do you balance like what you need um with uh you know spending the money and uh just buying it out of uh frivolity which i i try not to do but damn it i'm an addict mike it happens there's the best of us yeah is there a winning the 12-step program or something all right i'm i'm in rambly phase so uh why don't you get us out of here if you want to find the

'''Myke Hurley:''' show notes for this week you want to head on over to relay.fm slash pen addict slash 158 if you want to find us online i am at imike i-m-y-k-e on twitter and on instagram brad is at dowdyism d-o-w-d-y-i-s-m on twitter and pen addict on instagram and of course he writes the great pen addict dot com where you can find all of his writing as well uh thanks again to our sponsors this week mass drop pen chalet and field notes and we'll be back next time until then say goodbye brad

'''Brad Dowdy:''' goodbye brad

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