Editing The Pen Addict 522/transcript (section)

== Mood Setting ==


'''Myke:''' I want to see if you can put me in a good mood today. Or if our listeners can put me in a good mood. Because I have a request. Something I need. And I want to see if you can help me with it. Okay. I have on my main working desk, I have like a small collection of like little pen things that I want to put somewhere. So this is a Cortex Mark 1. I have like a letter opener. I have a rotary mechanical pencil and an Apple pencil. And these are like always kind of on my desk doing this little kind of just like resting in this little wooden thing that I don't really like. It's like this little tray. What I want is a pen cup or something to put them in. Okay. Now, this is not like what I put my fountain pens into. Which is like these wooden blocks where everything's kept separate. No, I just want like these pens and these tools can all just bash into each other. Like it's not a concern for me. And I might put some other little bits and bobs in there too. You know, like maybe I'll see if I'll throw the tactile turn GT in there. Just have something like it's just on my desk where these things can go. And just like searching around, I couldn't really find anything that I found interesting or nice. I looked on Amazon and that didn't work. I was thinking of using like Kate's suggesting an old cup, but I don't have any at the studio. So like that could work and I could just bring a cup from home. But I thought maybe there would be something nicer.

'''Brad:''' I will say before we dig into like the stationary related stuff, I am very much pro like pick out your favorite coffee cup that you don't want to drink coffee out of. And, you know, that's fun and is either like cool looking or has a good message or, you know, is a neat material or a neat finish, something like that. Like I am very pro just, hey, let's grab a coffee mug to add to my desk accessory appearance. So I will say that. But I saw your question and I would love the listeners to help me pick out one item. And then I have a list of a bunch of other items that I'm familiar with and I use. But the one item that I would like to try, even for myself, is I would like a nice handmade wooden cup type of situation for my storage. Now there's some, there's, I actually linked to one, which we'll talk about in a second. But like you can find like a lot of stuff on Etsy, right? Like there's just woodworkers, you know, everywhere that you can find like cups and bowls and things, you know, like that. Something that might meet your style and aesthetic, you know. Some are just round and simple. Some are geometric. Some are laser etched. You can find like a million different types of wooden cups. But I would be curious if our listeners have anyone in the stationary community that they use for this type of thing. Like in the past, you know, what you're not looking for right now is like things that we would use Myke Dudek for, right? Dudek Modern Goods. But those are very separate. Like everything, although like the walnut had holes in it, right? So everything was separated. Not necessarily like bulk, just everything, you know, together storage. So I would love to, you know, find something like that for myself. Like I've looked for, have you ever seen those skate deck, you know, like wooden type things where it's all layered of the skate deck boards and it's got a lot of different colors and very cool things. And, you know, I've tried, I actually tried to find something like that from a pen cup perspective this morning and I couldn't. But, you know, I found plenty of wood types of cups and bowls. So if you're just looking for general stuff, you know, hop on Etsy, look in there. But I would like to get some feedback from any listeners if they have any like, you know, any of our stationary friends or, you know, people in the community that we could recommend for that. So separate from that, I have a couple of suggestions for you.

'''Brad:''' E&M makes some really nice desk accessories and I use them. I don't have one on my desk right now, but I use them in my closet when I have, where I have just more storage, like things organized and put away. They make some very simple like pen pots and cup holders. And then separately from that, storage blocks. But if you're just looking for like a basic wooden pen pot that's very accessible to anyone, anyone that carry any stationary retailer that carries E&M products, like I put the link in here to Cult Pens, Myke, because that's regional to you. And these cups are like, you know, just nice wooden cups. They're very inexpensive. They're like 10 US dollars. And they're well made. I've had good experience with E&M. So that's kind of like your basic. Hey, let me just get a round, you know, desk cup for something like that. One thing I have on my desk right now is the Rhodia pencil holder. And this is my kind of mass storage cup. Like if I pick it up right now, let me grab it. I got to reach around the microphone. So in this container, you can hear everything's touching. I have a letter opener. I have one, two, three, four wooden pencils. I have my Kakamori dip nib. I have a folded dip nib. I have a spoke pen with a drill log nib in it. I have the Loner Bic pen. I have the Bic crystal. I have Copic multiliner. So I have like literally kind of everything.

'''Myke:''' Did you say a spoke pen with a drill log?

'''Brad:''' I didn't sneak that. I didn't sneak that by you.

'''Myke:''' You did not sneak that by me.

'''Brad:''' So this cup kind of keeps the ink testing. Like if I want to test a bottle of ink and I need to grab one of the things to test it with, it has my three ink testing items. Kakamori dip nib, folded nib, and then a spoke, a custom insert for a spoke pen that a friend, an unnamed friend of the show made for me to insert into the spoke pen. And it has my drill log, my 0.5 drill log tip in there. You know, then I have a letter opener. Like literally like the type of things that you are talking about. I have a Sharpie marker in here, right? This is the cup that I don't need the things all the time, every day. But when I want the things, I need to know where they're at and you need to go grab it. So when I need a Sharpie, hey, I know it's right here in this cup or I need a ballpoint for a certain thing.

'''Brad:''' You know, I use that. So it's just all right here. So, and that's another little inexpensive item. They're colorful, you know, in rhodia colors. It's, I bought an orange, an orange or an orange one. And the links I saw this morning were basically the black and orange, you know, rhodia stuff. I don't like the rhodia ones. Yeah. Yeah. They've made some colorful ones, some more colorful ones, but I don't see them right now. They were making like purples and blues and things like that, but I didn't find them. You know, maybe if you searched a little bit more, but that's your traditional classic. Like this is what you'd think is like a classic pencil holder, right, for your desk. So those are the things I look at for bulk storage. Um, I do like, uh, our friend, friend of the show, Evan at Penquisition. He makes more block storage, but he does a lot of custom type stuff. It might almost be worth, um, you know, seeing, uh, if we could get something like in these layered blocks, some of them are 3d printed. Some of them are wooden. Um, could we make like a larger rounder type of pen holder situation? That is specifically what you want. Like what would be your ideal, what are you picturing in your head is would be the ideal thing.

'''Brad:''' Material shape size would. Okay.

'''Myke:''' So that's, that's not going to help with the 3d printing, but we're not 3d printed anyway. Um, no offense to 3d printing. No, no, no, no. I think just something circular. I'm looking on Etsy now, Brad. I don't know why I hadn't considered that. Yeah. Um, but obviously there's a million things, but then I come back to the same issue of like why I didn't buy one on Amazon as well, which is like, I don't really know the provenance of these products because my issue with some of summit stuff on Etsy is it's like, we bought this stuff from Alibaba and now we're going to charge you four times the price. Right.

'''Brad:''' That's why I was asking for the listeners to, Hey, give me someone you vouch for.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. Cause it can be hard to like work out. Did anybody make this? You know what I mean? Right.