Editing The Pen Addict 515/transcript (section)

== Box Discussion ==


'''Brad:''' Yeah, so I got my big boy pen box, Myke. I got my Toyocacraft pen box 100, and by 100 they mean it holds 100 pens.

'''Myke:''' Yeah, I've been seeing this in Refill, your wonderful newsletter, and of course on Instagram. How did you find this?

'''Brad:''' People have been sharing them with me for a while. So, this brand, in the last couple years, I think they came to San Francisco Pen Show last year maybe. And the people who had purchased them or ordered from them or worked with them all sung their praises. You know, of craftsmanship, you know, it's a Japanese company where they hand make all these pen boxes. And, you know, they do a lot of different work, but not just pen boxes. But obviously, that's, you know, one of their focuses is the pen box. It's not like a one-off thing, like it's a big part of their company. And so, it had always been on my mind, you know, to, hey, I'll eventually get something like this. But, you know, deciding what, how big, you know, what type of style, how I'm going to use it. You know, those things take a while, right? Like I talk about when I make like the big decisions, I tend to go pretty slow. And then it just kind of works itself out into, hey, this is the one we're going to do. So, I went with the pen box 100 because I am going to, as asinine as this sounds, I am going to limit my personal pen collection to 100 pens. Which, we're not going to get in that today because that could be the entire show.

'''Myke:''' Yeah, I want to, because obviously, I want to dig into this. Like genuinely, I mean, I don't know how you feel about this. I would like to do a series of episodes where we detail the entire 100.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, I think we can do that. We will get there. But like, it's going to be a process. Just like buying the box was, you know, a process. And now how I'm going to use it is going to be a process. How I'm going to manage my personal library of pens is going to be a process. So, yeah, you will be hearing about this a lot.

'''Myke:''' And this is just like, this is 100 fountain pens, right?

'''Brad:''' Yes. Yeah. You know, there's going to be, there's rules.

'''Myke:''' We're not talking about Sakura Pigma Microns or whatever. No, no.

'''Brad:''' This is 100. At first, I said any pen with a nib, you know, like a fountain pen nib. But it's actually going to, there is going to be some like price limitations, you know, like over $50 or something like that, right? Because there's just an absolute pile of, you know, Twisbees and Safaris and Kaweco Sports and things like that, that I got to figure out what I'm going to do with. But the overarching theme is if I'm going to keep an expensive pen, I have to be willing to use it. So I need to, I need to sell the ones that I don't. And I've been doing that for years now.

'''Myke:''' I love this. This is one in, one out, man. Like this is an excellent system. You are inspiring me here. I have followed this account because from a craftspersonship perspective, this just looks like an absolutely stunning thing to own.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. If you don't want to spend money, don't go to Toyoka Crafts Instagram or website because you just look at that and just kind of drool. Like it's really, really nice. We'll have links in the show notes. You know, I have a link to me starting to fill up my box. What's funny is I think my boxes on their Instagram prior to shipping, there's a link in the show notes we'll have. Yeah, you can see it. It's the color, right? Mine's the one on the left of this image we'll have in the show notes. There's two identical exterior boxes, but there are the color trays, the cloth trays you can get. You can pick which colors you want, including picking a different color for each tray. And mine is the exact colors of the one on the left in the exact order that they're placed into the box. Therefore, I'm pretty sure that that is my box on their Instagram page there.

'''Myke:''' Baby. I just saw how much that thing cost.

'''Brad:''' They are very expensive. The shipping must be obscene. The shipping alone was about $140.

'''Myke:''' Okay. So you're looking at somewhere kind of all in about $600, $700.

'''Brad:''' It was, yeah, north of $700.

'''Myke:''' Now, what I will say, value-wise, right? You think about stuff, a lot of money. There are a lot of pens, individual pens going into this that cost $1 in $700, right? Sure, sure. And this is like really as incredible cross-personship as these pens are, right? Yeah. In some cases, more than, you know?