Editing The Pen Addict 174/transcript (section)

== Shenandoah Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's not the only thing you got in last week. You got your Shenandoah, which is actually pretty quick for you. It's usually like.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, they arrived this morning. OK. Not quick.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' OK. OK. I was thinking like, you know, I get mine, then it's usually sometimes like two weeks later that you show up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it was pretty much that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So what are your thoughts?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So they are very simple, but they're more beautiful than I expected. And I think they're kind of beautiful in their simplicity. They really do remind me of Field Notes, you know, prime, I guess, if you'd call it that. Sure. But I like them a lot. I think the colors are really great. The color combos are really great. They're very autumn. I love the wooden belly band. Nice touch. I think I said I think that's a really nice touch on these. The covers are they are strong.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. They haven't done one like this in a while.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No. The paper is really good. It's smooth. It has a little bleed through with broad. But I was using a couple of fountain pens and we're fine and even medium to a point like that. They're totally fine fountain pens. So I have no issue there. I think they're a really nice. They're a really nice set. They're not going to be top of my lists, but they could be, you know, that'd be firmly sit in the middle because I think that they are really just a really solid set. They put some good thought into it, like with the way that the colors are. I like the leaves. I like the badges. I like the little card, the little hello card that popped out in the middle of the thing, which is quite funny. But yeah, I think this is a really nice autumn set.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's a very straightforward set in which I really enjoy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So yeah, I'm happy with them. I think they're a good purchase. They're probably still available. So I recommend them. I recommend them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Chris, when you're sketching out your plans for world domination in the fountain pen world, what kind of tools are you using paper-wise, pen-wise? What are you sketching in?

'''Chris Manning:''' Mostly a very, very fine-tipped fountain pen.

'''Chris Manning:''' Myke Masayama did a needlepoint pen for me a couple of years ago. And I'm using the Miss Your Notebooks lately. Okay, yeah. I've been happy with them. Yeah, I find the field notes are a little bit too small for me. Yeah. For sketching.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' For sure, for sure. Now, related to our next little follow-up here, what kind of workspace do you have? Do you spread out? Do you hole up on the couch when you're sketching? I think I've seen some pictures of the workshop. But I'm talking about how Myke and I talked about our ideal workspace. And our friend Sean Blanc had a link we'll have in the show notes for your ideal workspace. And he's talking about how he wants this massive, gigantic table. It's kind of along the lines of what I was looking at. And do you have, like, in your shop, are you just, like, full bore working around machinery? Or do you have, like, a little space set off to the side where the sketching happens? What's the setup like in there?

'''Chris Manning:''' I wish I had the space to have a sketching station. Anybody who sees my shop, it is a complete disaster. And my office is not much better. So, I don't, basically, I grab whatever flat surface I can when it comes to sketching.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice, nice. All right, so this was an interesting article we got this week sent to me, Myke. I don't know if you had a chance to read it. And I don't know, Chris, if you read it. It's a little bit, you know, I don't, you know, fully get it. But I trust Dave Ray implicitly. And the article is called The Polarizing Truth, Why Your TWSBI Eco Won't Break. So, he basically put it under a, what is this, cross polarizer stress analysis, the TWSBI Eco barrel versus the TWSBI 580 barrel. And I'll let y'all check out the link if you haven't seen it already. But he basically can view the stress points in the two different barrels. And, you know, as you would kind of assume in a rounded barrel as opposed to a faceted barrel, there'd be less stress points. And that kind of bears out in Dave's analysis. It's just kind of cool. We don't normally, I can't imagine like three or four years ago seeing an article like this. Can you, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, not at all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't completely understand the science.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, I don't know if I should, but I don't fully understand it. But this is one of those things like I understand and agree with what Dave has put forward. But my feeling with these types of things always remains, which is like, and as Dave kind of sums it up at the bottom, it's just two pens. Right. Out of however many. Sure. You never really know how it's going to end up being.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, it's, you know, people who have had their TWSBI's continually break, they won't care. And people who haven't, they won't care either. But I just thought the analysis in general was pretty good. You know, I'm a huge TWSBI fan. And you're back and forth, admittedly. And that's good too. I just thought to myself when I'm reading this, it's like when I was getting into pens, you know, we were like trying to find like this micro gel fountain pen from Japan. Micro gel tip pen from Japan. And now we're like doing cross polarization stress of fountain pen barrels. I'm just, I'm really amazed at this community these days and the things everyone comes up with. And I'm so impressed. And I love seeing articles like this. It just kind of takes what we talk about and then just blows it up, you know, a thousand fold. It's really fun to see.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, for sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So out of the 23 best pens for your home and office, Myke, how many do you have? Go.