Editing The Pen Addict 519/transcript (section)

== EDC Knife and Pen Combo ==


'''Brad:''' The Tactile Turn Ultimate EDC. So let me tell you how this happened for you. I was just scrolling through Instagram and I happened to stop on this picture, this latest thing from Tactile Turn. And I don't have notifications on, like, to be notified when I'm outside of the app. Me too. But I was in the app and I got a message from you, which is jarring, right? Because that just doesn't, I don't get a lot of Instagram messages, nor do I pay attention to many Instagram messages. But Myke sends me a message. I don't even, I'm not even looking at it. It was probably just like an OMG or something like that. Yeah, it was something along those lines. Tell me what you think about this, because you actually kind of led this off and wanted to talk about this.

'''Myke:''' I kind of can't really put my finger on it. So it's a combo product, like, that they're doing. I assume they're selling them separately. I don't know.

'''Brad:''' They are. You can buy them as a set or you can buy them individually.

'''Myke:''' And it is a knife and a pen. And they're both made of that Ultem material, the kind of like, we spoke about it before with Shone pens, right? They were making some Ultem, right? Yeah. Remember that?

'''Brad:''' It's a medical grade plastic, like highly durable, you know, unbreakable type of plastic. That's known for its amber color. Yeah, amber. That's the color. Yeah. So it either comes in amber or black and that's it, right? Like, that's how it's manufactured. And we've seen pen makers turn to this as an alternate material. Yeah. Right. Like a lot of, I don't know who was the first to use it, but like I bought a Kasama pen, you know, I guess it's been a couple years ago now. And they launched before that. That's the first one I saw starting to make Ultem pens, but there was probably someone before them. You know, I just don't know all the things all the time. But a lot of the smaller...

'''Myke:''' I recently, today actually, just saw a keyboard made with it. Oh, interesting.

'''Brad:''' I would like to like get a visual of that after the show, just out of curiosity.

'''Myke:''' It's just the top piece. The rest of the keyboard is made of aluminum, but they have these like top parts that go on like accent.

'''Brad:''' Gotcha. So, yeah, it's designed to just be like this really strong plastic, right? Like very durable. It's perfect for like EDC. It's, you know, practically indestructible, but that also makes it hard to machine, right? There's a trade-off. That's why, you know, we see a lot of makers, like we've talked a million times about my Edison pen that was made in that G10 material. And it's like, well, that would be great if you could make a pen from that, except that it destroys the machines that you actually need to make the pen in the process of making the pen, right? So, it's not a great process. You know, just because you can do it doesn't mean you will make it into a product, right? So, Ultim has seemed to kind of make a little bit of a crossover into our space now, and then you get something like this. So, what are you most curious about? The looks? The feel? The look. Is this real? Like, do you like it or not like it? That's what I couldn't decide.

'''Myke:''' So, I put in the Discord and in the show notes a link to the keyboard that has the Ultim top piece on it. So, it looks similar.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. I see what you're talking about. And yeah, I could see that working.

'''Myke:''' Yep. And this is instead of like an acrylic. Like, they have a couple of options of acrylics, and one of them is Ultim.

'''Myke:''' There's just something I like about it. Honestly, I'm more drawn to the knife than the pen, I think. Mm-hmm. And I just think it looks really good. I like that you can see the knife inside. I just think that that is quite unique. I haven't seen something like that before, especially with a knife. You know, I'm very used to it with pen stuff. And there's just something about it that I like the combo. I really like the little piece of Ultim they've put on the string, right, that's on the knife. Like, I just think it looks really good in a way that I kind of don't really pay attention to. I actually did not know that they made knives, let alone that they have a whole separate company called Tactile Knife. I didn't know this about Tactile Tone. I don't know how I missed it.

'''Brad:''' I'm giggling because not only did I not know that, I didn't realize it until I was putting together the show notes. Like, I missed it in, like, all the other links and everything that they've done. And seeing all these images before, that there is actually a separate company as part of that. Yeah. I literally discovered that yesterday. So, yeah.

'''Myke:''' I'm pleased that you didn't know that as well.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. No, I didn't. It's like, you know, I can follow lots of things. I just can't follow all the things all the time. And this is one, like, I'm super glad I saw this set. So, I like you. I really like the looks of it. I know I'm going to like the knife because the reason why I'm not more of a knife person probably is because I don't like the weight of knives. And this is probably going to be, like, an ultralight type of situation. Yeah. Oh, man.

'''Myke:''' I hadn't even thought of that. Yeah. I'd be brilliant. Basically, I'm not going to, like, set an alarm for this.