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== Artisan Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, Myke, this was, I went machine pens for all the makers we want to link and for everyone to check out on gift guides. What did you put down for this category? I got in the document first,

'''Myke Hurley:''' so I could put this in because I figured Brad would otherwise. Shout out some of my favorite, our favorite artisan pen makers. These are the people that make just the most beautiful pens you'll ever see that also perform fantastically. So I'm talking about Canalea Pen Co. You know Canalea, they make just beautiful, beautiful Hawaiian inspired pens and they've had a real banner year in 2020. Just a couple of really just excellent releases that they've had under their belt. Carolina Pen Company, Jonathan Brooks. Jonathan is like, at this point, you know, I don't want to say anything about anybody else, but this industry is revolving around him now. What Jonathan does and has been doing is setting the tone for a lot of people in this market.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You would assume that Jonathan's been around forever, but he hasn't. And he really does just produce some of the most exciting pens you'll ever see. And it is no surprise that so many companies are working with him now, right? Like Leonardo, for example. So, you know, Jonathan really does make just some of the most incredible things. And the pieces that I own of his, and I use that word very specifically, by the way, are just some of the most incredible things I own from just a craftsperson perspective. Just really stupendous. Woodshed pens. Beautiful. Really, really fun. Great designs. So, I have, I don't remember the model name, but it's like a nebula-like design that I absolutely love. And then also Newton pens. Sean Newton has been doing this for a long time. And my favorite thing about Sean's work is not necessarily the barrels that he uses or the designs, like the visuals of the pens, but it is the absolutely wild and very special pen models he produces. So, I think that's what really sets Sean apart is some of the barrel styles and mechanisms and all that kind of stuff that you'll find in a Newton pen you don't find elsewhere. So, they're some of my favorites of the artism pen maker world.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome. Yeah. We'll have a long list for y'all to scroll through and maybe even some more. We can complete.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Bananas massive this week. Yeah. All right. To the point that I'm worried some podcast apps might break. Like, that's kind of where we are at this point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, we'll break them up with only one or two more links here because we're on our last question, gang. And I don't get to answer this question because I'm making you tell me what left-handed friendly stationary should I ask for from my two favorite left-handers, Anna and Myke, now with me being a left-handed dominant writer. What's the left-handed friendly stationary I need for Christmas?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, can I just jump in real quick, Anna? Sure. Go for it. Just because I want to stand up for all left-handed people is, Brad, you know what? You freaking use your right-handed stuff like we had to. All right? Exactly. And you deal with it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Anyway, so now I've got that out of my system. Anna, would you like to make a recommendation?

'''Anna Reinert:''' Funny, I was going to say the exact same thing, which is we use exactly the same pens and pencils and notebooks and everything else that you do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No way. No way. We do. It's true. I don't believe you.

'''Anna Reinert:''' But if you want some lefty-centric products, one thing I forgot to list, which is that I'm pretty sure Right Notepads still makes their lefty notebook.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right.

'''Anna Reinert:''' But you can also use basically any notebook. Just flip it over if you don't want stuff in your way.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was just about to say that. Again, no, Brad, you don't get it. Just turn your notebooks upside down.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Yeah. You just put a sticker on the side that you start with so that you know that's the front now, which is what we've been doing for decades. But my other recommendation is I prefer colored pencils like a red-blue copy pencil or just a red or blue like Prismacolor color race instead of a graphite pencil because it doesn't smear as much.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's actually genuinely smart, good advice that I did not think about. And having a love of those pencils already, I have them sitting here. So I'm going to go get some of those out and put them into the rotation because, yeah, I love those.

'''Anna Reinert:''' You can also put that lead. They have red and blue lead that you can put into mechanical pencils too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool. Cool. All right, Myke, what do you think? What do I need to do as a new lefty?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Even though I know from talking to you and from reading refill that you're very much like, I'm going to use all other types of pens. I know you're not going to make it through this entire period without wanting to dive back into fountain pens more because I just know you, you can't stop yourself. So when you do... You saw my wish list. Yeah. When you do, use Pilot Orochizuku ink because if long-term listeners will remember, I tried out a bunch of inks and this was the best ink that I could find from Color Choice, Quality and Dry Time. And I still use Hiroshizuku inks today because I've found that the quality is great and they dry fast and that is important. So that is a... Of all the fast drying inks that I tried, this was the one that I liked the most because most of the stuff that is like specifically made for this, not great, which is kind of getting back to that point that we were joking about. But it's true. Like a lot of the stuff that is like made for left-handed people, it's like, it doesn't, it doesn't work. And also if you, if you have had to use products for right-handed people, the left-handed people products don't work for you because you've already like built up muscle memory and ways of getting around stuff that then you end up just needing to get back around it from the other direction. So it's a look. This is true. I love it.

'''Anna Reinert:''' In regards to ink, if you're having dry time issues because of the left handiness, um, things like the white lightning from Van Ness can be added to existing ink to get it to dry a little bit faster. Okay. And also staying away from, uh, Tomoe river paper for a little while because it

'''Brad Dowdy:''' takes forever to dry. That is a fact that has been put to the side. You might just try one of the

'''Anna Reinert:''' other papers. There are lots to choose from the, you use the, the Midori a lot, right? The MD. Yeah. Yep. That's probably a better option. The Midori cotton is really good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So that's, I'm using the MD right now is pretty much my main notebook. So yeah, it's been great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So yeah, I use Tomoe river paper purposefully. If that makes sense. Right. Well, you know what to

'''Brad Dowdy:''' expect and where, what to watch for and how to use it, but yeah, going in blindly to Tomoe river, it could be a frustration. Yeah. All right. Well, y'all are awesome. Thank you for, uh, helping me out there. Uh, and it's all in good fun. I love doing this. I love having this episode. I love having on, on, we were talking before the show that we haven't had on, on as much cause we haven't been as at many pen shows this year to where we can do preview shows and post shows and live shows and all these things. So thank you for coming on, Anna, knocking this gift guide completely out of the

'''Anna Reinert:''' park. Thank you so much. Yes. Thanks for having me back. It has been far too long. We said this

'''Myke Hurley:''' before we started today. We realized that we haven't had you on the show because we haven't been to pen shows and, uh, we're not going to have make this mistake again in 2021. So we'll have you back not too long. If you want to find the show notes for this week's episode, go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash four, three, eight. There's a lot of them. We have done our best to put all of the products recommended in that list. So you can go through and find what you're looking for. That's where you also find links, uh, to everything at the well-appointed desk and the honors doing along with what Brad's doing along with what I'm doing as well. So I'm not going to do my usual thing. What I will say is, uh, Brad twitch.tv slash penaddict Tuesdays, Thursdays, 10 a.m. Eastern. That's the one little bit of extra promotion I'll give Brad for today. Uh, thank you so much to good, made better and Squarespace for their support of this show. And, uh, we'll be back next time until then say goodbye, everybody. Goodbye, everybody.

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