Editing The Pen Addict 250/transcript (section)

== Ink Names ==


'''Ana Reinert:''' No. It sounds like one of those like weird branded names. Yeah. Kind of like color ring. It's a dopey name.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, but there's a meaning, right? Like they can see, hear it. And like, it's, it's a funny name. It's a pun, right? Like there's a thing to it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Script was, script was in the ink name at the time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, but yeah, I don't know what it means.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well then it's just building off the existing brand that they had then, I guess. Yeah. Okay. Well, that makes sense. Well, it makes enough sense.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was the same, same dudes that were making the ads were coming up with the names. Yeah. Yeah. So what, what are you writing in on with, with your new fancy pens? Um, what, what kind of paper have you been writing in?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Um, well, I, I've been getting kind of excited. Have you seen the Loic Term, uh, hundredth anniversary editions?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Whoa. I did. And I don't know how Myke hasn't blown up my inbox with these. Like I need all of these.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have not seen these.

'''Ana Reinert:''' So, um, for their hundredth anniversary, Loic Term has done gold, silver, and copper covers.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh man.

'''Ana Reinert:''' One of the things that, uh, we were joking about, um, at Little Rock was that they basically match the Lamy, um, the copper, the LX. The LX editions. Mm-hmm. They're almost the same color. And we thought that looked really cool together. Yeah. Like, but yeah. So I thought those were really pretty. And I couldn't decide. I haven't.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love the 1917 on them. That's beautiful.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I think that's just the paper wrap. Yeah. I don't think that's actually printed, but it just looks really nice. Like as a package.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. They did a great job because it's, it's the hundredth anniversary, uh, of Loic Term 1917. I guess it kind of makes sense, but they did, uh, the, the look and style of these look amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, they really do. Wow. That's great.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I thought those were very sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And are you, did you review the Moo Notebook when it came out? I did. And that, that one kind of snuck up on us, right? I mean, it's a really, really good book. And now they, they've kind of ramped up their production on that.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. Yeah. So Moo just, and they really, they did pretty quiet, um, announcement of their new colors for their notebooks. Yeah. So that was one thing that everybody asked for when they announced their original release of their notebook, which, so their notebook is, has like a cloth cover and then it has, um, white paper. But then in the middle of the notebook are like eight, about 18 pages of colored paper. And the one, and the initial release had sort of like, um, that sort of industrial green color for the paper in the middle. And the one thing everybody asked for was, will you please release versions with different colors paper in that center section? And so they did, but it was a real kind of quiet release about a week ago. And I, I'm, I think people should know about it because I thought was the big thing that everybody had asked for because the paper that they put in the middle is that color plan paper.

'''Myke Hurley:''' From friends with Joe G.S. Smith. Yeah. Yep.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yes. Um, and it's, so it's really nice paper. It's fun to draw on. It would be great for like colored pencils or markers or anything like that. But yeah, so they've released, um, the cloth, book cloth on the cover is a bunch of different colors and then it's a sort of contrasting paper in the middle. So they look really beautiful.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, so now if they just mix in a dot grid, I'd be ordering them, but I just can't do lines.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. This it's still lined. The lines are not bad. Um, cause I'm not a big fan. If they did them all blank, I'd be like, I'd buy them in gross. That's all I would have.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That lime green one is awesome.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I know. Like when they released it, I was like, oh, I'm like, you had to do it. And they're like, cause we know you love it. I was like, yes. So yeah, they're, they're just beautiful. And that the lines that they use on the paper are actually very fine lines. So they're, I mean, like if you can do lined paper, like go order one, pick your, pick your favorite color, go order it. Cause the, it's just, they're lovely. They're notebooks. They're beautiful. They lay flat. They have that really cool. Like the cover opens up and you can actually see the binding on the inside. So I'm not being paid to say this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Like they're just, I really like their, the notebook.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And they're like communication back when they were doing the original PR push, they just like showed up. There was like, no, like, Hey, we've got this new thing and we're going to tell you all about it. It's just like, check out our notebook. And I was like, Whoa, you've got something here. That's pretty good.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. And because mostly what they do are like, um, print on demand business cards and postcards and stuff like that. This is really kind of an, like a side project for them. So I really think it's like a passion project. It's something they wanted. They wanted to do it. I think it's something they want to get into. Yeah. Like something they're genuinely interested in doing. Cause like book binding and stuff, that's not necessarily in their wheelhouse. Yeah. So I think anything we can do to sort of support that kind of project means they'll do more of it. And since they have introduced the colors, I think that that's suggests that they'll definitely be open to adding things like dot grid blank, you know, since it's really only been a couple of months since, cause they released the first edition, like right at the end of the year. It's like November and it's only March and they've got the colors. So yeah, I think it's strong possibility that give them another couple of months. They may have, you know, the reaction was so good to the first edition.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So have you tested out this new Toroco design 68 GSM Tomoe river paper that our good buddy Thomas Hall sent a lot of us?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, tell me all about it. Cause mine's still in the package and it's just like calling my name, but I haven't had time to, I want to sit down and spend some time with it. So, so tell me it's as good as it looks.

'''Ana Reinert:''' It is really nice. And I'm, because I'm left-handed, a lot of the Tomoe river paper, it's, it just doesn't dry fast enough for me. I end up getting it all over my hand. But for me, that's one of the things that I really like about the traveler's notebook is cause it's tall and skinny.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' It's not, I don't travel across the paper as far, so it's a little less likely for me to get it all over my arm. So tall and skinny, good format for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yay.

'''Ana Reinert:''' But yeah, no, uh, the paper's really nice and you're not getting it quite as much show through, but yeah, it's a really nice paper. So yes. So what inks? Yay 68 GSM.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. So what, what inks are you throwing down on it?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Um, I actually like when I had all of the pens from the show with me and I just tested everything that I had in my inked up that I had in my book. So I tested everything and I was quite pleased with it. So yeah, I'll, I'll have a full review in a couple of weeks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. Yeah. That's probably about when mine will come out maybe to sometime in April. Probably that's, that's all I can commit to these days. Oh yeah. Sometime next month. So these platinum classic inks. So that's, those have been a problem for me and I noticed you put them in the show notes. I wasn't sure if you were into those or not. Have you gotten any yet?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I have them, um, on order. They're supposed to be here today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool.

'''Ana Reinert:''' You're not happy with them?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, I love them. I'm not, I'm not happy that I had to buy all six of them. I'm not happy that I couldn't just buy one of them that I had to buy all six of them. No, no. Ever since they came out, I was like, these can't get here fast enough because this is, this is my ink right here. These are amazing.

'''Ana Reinert:''' They look really beautiful. I just ordered samples because I have a feeling I'm going to end up buying all six bottles, but I thought I'd start with samples because that's a lot of money.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is. It is. And I bought them at the Arkansas pen show from Dan Smith had all six colors. And I've got the lavender black review. I think I'm going to shoot for Monday on that, but they're all just very cool. Um, I'm just interested to see, I haven't cleaned them out of a pen yet, but they look like they're going to behave super, super well, which I kind of expect from platinum and, uh, the color's just, just killer. And it's fantastic. I'm going to be addicted to these inks, um, this year, I think. So they're very cool. Very happy with them so far. And then you got me hooked on a new Robert Oster color at the little rock pen show when you swabbed it. Um, one of them was the Australian opal mauve.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Mm. Yeah. That one's gorgeous. Oh my gosh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a crazy looking ink. So what, what other ones are you into?