Editing The Pen Addict 250/transcript (section)

== Carondash Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'll let you know. All right. And you linked to one more pen in here that I want to talk about because I have this fascination fascination. And I think it's just one of those things that's, you know, 20 years in the making of a pen that you see, that's just a very classic traditional pen. And that's a Carondash 849. And you're looking at the fountain pen.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. I know. It's a sneaky link. I'm not sure if I should actually have put it up there, but it popped up. I found it. Thank you, Google.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. It's, um, there's something about these pens that are just cool. I just like the style. I mean, I, I'm a Carondash fan, um, new to the party, if you will, not a, not an old school Carondash fan, but I've found a love for pretty much everything they make. And these look cool. I haven't seen these before.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Okay. So a little, just a little backstory. Um, at some point, like a link or an email came through for the, like a Carondash 849 fountain pen. Mm-hmm. Now I'm not sure if somebody jumped the gun, um, and they weren't supposed to show this quite yet or not. Um, and then it vanished.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Um, so I, um, and I was like, we like top secret links here. Yeah. It's, so this was, I'm not sure if it's a top secret link. I'm not sure if I'm, you know, we're not supposed to be giving this away.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, it's a public link. It's just not in stock yet.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. It's, it just says it's not in stock yet, but I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Where'd that link go? Why can't I find it? Cause I was gonna, I was gonna post it on link love like a couple of weeks ago and I'm like, wait, now I can't find it. Why? Where did it go? And I'm like, this looks really interesting. I want, you know, it says, you know, available soon. And I'm like, come on, where'd it go? And so like, I went to Google and I've typed it in. I'm like, okay, wait, now I can't find it. So then I typed it in again and it popped up again and I'm like, okay, well, there it is again. I'm like, but then it vanished again. I'm like, but this is the only place that I can find it. And I'm like, well, maybe they're not supposed to have it up yet. So they made it invisible. I don't know. And I was like, well, okay, I'll email and check. And then I just didn't get around to emailing to double check and see, but I'm like, it looks interesting, but I don't know. Like, is it or isn't it? Can we talk about it? So what do you think?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're talking about it. We're talking about it. I think we can talk about it and the colors look great.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We'll see what the price is. They're probably going to be in that $50 range. I'm guessing, although it's Caran d'Ache, you never know what they're going to do. They're not known for being on the low end of the pricing scale, but that seems like about the range of that pen. Like the ballpoint for that model is around $20, $22. I imagine the fountain pen is going to be like $45 to $50. If it is, I think that'll be cool. I like it.

'''Ana Reinert:''' It says it's got a stainless steel nib. It's got that same sort of, you know, painted metal barrel as the ballpoint. The only thing is I wish it had the sort of silver end, like the ballpoint, even though I realized it would not be functional. It just looks weird with a flat end. I don't know why.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Don't you think? Yeah. You're just so used to seeing that style, like it's the same visual style and aesthetic from them. It does look a little bit different. Myke, do you own a Carondash anything?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, nothing. No.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'll bring you a ballpoint. They're very, very nice. I'm a big fan.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm familiar with the style.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've seen them. Yeah, exactly. They've been around forever.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like I've seen them in England, I'm sure. In like stores, like nice pen stores or whatever. But it's just not a brand that I feel anything for, really. Like they don't excite me. And I think it might be because like it's a brand that I've known for a long time because it's like a cross, you know, in that like it's been around forever and it's in all the pen stores. So I'm not so excited about it. But this is a beautiful looking pen though. This is very good looking. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Before we get into, we have a little Atlanta prep that we want to get into. But I want to circle back onto the Little Rock Pen Show because Myke lost his mind when I told him that you brought typewriters to sell at the Little Rock Pen Show. And not only did you bring them, you blew out of them by Saturday. So tell us, tell us about your typewriter fascination.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah, I brought four like small portable vintage typewriters. I brought an Air May Rocket, a Smith Corona Empire, which is basically the same typewriter, just rebranded. Um, what else did I bring? Oh, I brought two Olivettis. One was a Studio 45, I think Studio. Yeah, something like that. And what was the other one? A Latera 22. Maybe I'm getting the numbers backwards, but you get the gist. Um, but yeah, so, um, the, the studio was the Olivetti studio was the probably the nicest one that I had. It was probably the newest. It was like turquoise blue. Um, very pretty, had a really nice box, um, that came with it and like still had the keys for the box, like the carrying case. Um, and that one sold first, of course, because it was like, I mean, like T it was like teal blue.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was really cool looking.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. It was really cool looking. But yeah, people were, went crazy for them, but I really did. I brought the, like of my stash of typewriters, I did bring like, they were all in working order. They all, I had, they were all cleaned up. They all had new ribbons. Um, and they marched out the door.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm giggling over here because now I'm, I'm remembering back when, you know, not only were you selling them, but people were taking them off to the side to test and I'd just be sitting there walking around in here. And I was taking little videos of people doing them. They love the typewriters. So like, did you expect to sell even one, not much less all four that you brought?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I, I expected, I, I like at least one or two of them. Like, because I, I didn't, um, hear from like Lisa had mentioned Lisa Venice ahead of time that there were a couple of people. She had mentioned that the typewriters were coming and there were people who were genuinely interested in vintage typewriters. So I thought maybe one or two would sell, but I did not expect to sell all four.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So between the color rings and the typewriters and all of Bob's prints and your little notepads that I can't say on the show that I know sold really well because I saw people going over there to get them, do you see you specifically or you and Bob or Skylab or Well Appointed Desk setting up at more pen shows?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Um, we've talked about it a little bit. Um, if we did, it probably wouldn't be until maybe the Dallas show. Um, just because, you know, just timing and everything, but like, you know, Dallas would be the soonest this year and that like, if everything went well, like maybe we would do shows next year. But yeah, like, I don't, I don't know. It was a lot of work. Boy, we were really tired.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. That'll do it.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. It was a pretty big, it was a pretty big ordeal. Um, but yeah, it, I don't know. It's, it's kind of, it was, it was nerve wracking.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Um, kind of sleepless, sleepless nights going up, leading up to it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' God, it's definitely tiring that I know. And I'm sure in Atlanta, we're all going to be exhausted. So we need some sustenance before we go, Myke.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hmm.

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