Editing The Pen Addict 45/transcript (section)

== Japanese Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' You are the sensei. But before we jump into our topic today, which is we're going to be talking about Japanese pens today, aren't we?

'''Guest:''' Yes, yeah. Got some good feedback on some Japanese pens. It's a topic we've had kind of ready to roll here for a few weeks now, so I'm glad we're able to get to it. Actually, it worked out well because I was able to add a few things, too, that were kind of important to talk about.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, and obviously it helped because we're a little bit ahead.

'''Guest:''' Yeah, it helped more than you know because there's no way I would have put – I didn't have anything ready between our last episode and this episode, so I'm glad we kind of had this planned out already. It made my life a lot easier.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Good. So yeah, obviously we had an episode Thursday and today is Monday when we're recording and releasing.

'''Guest:''' Yeah, we're going to be on the weird schedule here for a few weeks and then we're going to be almost a week and a half until our next episode. It will be next week, but it will be late next week, I think Thursday.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I think people just want an episode. They've seen us go before. Brad, they don't want it to happen again.

'''Guest:''' I know. I know. It won't happen. Promise.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I just want to follow up very quickly because I mentioned on last week's episode that I bought the Field Notes archive box and it has arrived.

'''Guest:''' That was quick.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, very fast actually. It was like four or five days, which for international shipping is incredible. When I've ordered things from Field Notes in the past, they've maybe taken a week or two. If you remember, I was waiting for quite a while for my Expedition Edition, wasn't I? Yeah. And I bought them on the day. So it might have been just because this was a large item that they had to pay potentially more expensive shipping. So maybe it came quicker.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's as well made as you would imagine it would be from the guys over at Field Notes. It's got a real nice feel to it. It feels very handmade. Nice wood. Smells great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was just saying to you before we started, like the dimensions of it surprised me. It's a lot bigger than I expected. It's basically, it's about an inch bigger than the National Crop Edition box. So it's significantly larger. It's a good few inches, maybe two inches larger. It's maybe an inch and a half, two inches larger than a Field Notes book when you stand it up. And this surprised me. And I potentially think that this is future planning for them. That maybe they expect to do more boxed editions.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I guess that was pretty nice. I mean, I really like the National Crop Set. And I hope that they do more like that. And I think that this might be them thinking ahead, you know. Because there's no reason why you would have it this much larger than the books.

'''Guest:''' Yeah. Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, maybe it's, you know, you just don't want to make as tight as possible. Just, you know, for the books down the line, you know, something might be coming out where, you know, you can store the larger, you know, if it comes in a different type of packaging.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you know what I would love? What? I would love a Moleskine sized one. What do you mean? You know, like a thick.

'''Guest:''' Oh, like a single large one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, like, you know, the drive into the gap book. Yeah. That sort of size. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be good. And they've stamped like a Field Notes logo into the top. It looks like it's been heat stamped. So it's dark brown wood. I'm going to put a couple of pictures into the show notes because I've also put my memo books in there.

'''Guest:''' Oh, good. I'd like to see that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I've organized them by date order except the capsule editions at the back. And I put the crop edition behind that. Because it's the box. So I didn't. It would look weird. And then they're in date order by the style. And then I have right at the front currently used books. Like ones that I'm currently using.

'''Guest:''' How many do you think you can fit in there? You fit everything you have in there, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can fit everything I have in there. And I mean, I've put some stuff in the back. Like I bought some of the bands. And I've put those behind. I mean, you could get quite a few in here. Okay, cool. But if I carry on at the rate that I'm going, I'll need to buy another one. It's very nice. They give you those dividers, but there aren't enough for me. I've already used up all of the dividers. And I can't find how to order them. But I guess if you email... What I would do is when maybe after my first colors edition or whatever, I'll email them and ask if it's possible to buy more of the dividers. Maybe they just hadn't thought of it.

'''Guest:''' Yeah, maybe so.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I would, you know, I want to be able to... I mean, because I haven't even written on them. But what I want to do is to write each of the edition names on. But I didn't want to do that in case I run out and then decide to use them in another way later.

'''Guest:''' Exactly.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But that's what I would like to do with it is like write like Norvoli edition. And my Norvoli edition showed up. I have a packaged Norvoli edition now, which I'm very happy about.

'''Guest:''' Cool. Yeah, see, I've been scared to even look at the archive box because I know I'd need two right out the gate. I don't know that I want to go there yet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I know. I mean, the footprint is a lot larger than I expected and it's taking up a bit of my desk space. So I actually need to rearrange my desk to keep it here. But it's freed up other space. I was just stacking my books on.

'''Guest:''' Well, I bet it looks pretty sweet on your desk too.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It does look really nice. It's very nicely made. And I mean, you know, you kind of expect that from them. But I'm really happy with it. Really happy with it. So, yeah, that's that.

'''Guest:''' That's awesome. Well, man, I didn't have too much follow-up just because the timing of our last episode. I did, you know, from when we recorded Thursday, I did a review on Friday, which I thought was a pretty cool review with an interesting ink. The Noodler's Rome Burning ink. That kind of copper brown that washes out into a purple ink. It can't be washed out, but it actually turns color. The permanency ink color is a little bit different. So that was well received on Friday. And then I think from the time I posted that Friday until the time we're recording right now, I haven't had time to do squat with pens or ink or anything. I didn't even – I wanted to get a review out on today on Monday for the blog. And, man, I've just been slammed. It's getting to be that time of year where we're just going sideways all the time. So I didn't have too much follow-up. I hope to get – after this episode tonight, I hope to get another review out tomorrow probably on the blog. I got a bunch in the can. I just need the time to write them up and do things like that. But I did get a funny email I wanted to share with you. It's really short and sweet, and I got a good laugh out of it. And the guy named Jonathan sent me an email, and I just laughed when he read this. So I'm going to read this to you real quick. So the subject line is, to a man of dubious influence.

'''Guest:''' So that's how he starts it. He says, good evening, good sir. I just went what can only be referred to in good conscience as ape poop on jet pens. He didn't use the word poop. He used the other word. And I thought I'd share my itemized list of woes with my absentee. Might as well be smack dealer, namely you.

'''Guest:''' So he went on. He bought a Fisher Space Pen, a Kaweco Classic Sport, a Uniball Karutoga, one of the Kaweco Clips in gold. He said nod to Myke. Nicely done, sir. Yeah, Kaweco fountain pen ink cartridges, a few packs of that, and a bottle of Diamine Oxblood Red Ink. With thanks for spurring my latest addiction, Jonathan. So I thought that was hilarious. I got a good laugh out of that.