Editing The Pen Addict 35/transcript (section)

== Field Notes ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So, you sent me a handful of things. One, which blew me away, was you sent me one of your, the green field notes. What are they called? Grass Stained Green. Grass Stained Green that we spoke about a couple of weeks ago. And it really surprised me because you were talking, you know, about how much those ones meant to me, to you. And so, that meant a lot to me. It was very nice that you did that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, good. I'm glad you like it. It's definitely my favorite. And, you know, I had a couple extra and I wanted someone else to experience how cool these notebooks are. Because, you know, unfortunately, not everyone got to at the time. You know, no one knew at the time what was going to happen with these things, right? So, you know, that's not one a lot of people get to see or hold or use. So, I wanted to get one in your hands just because, you know, I appreciate everything you do for me. And, you know, I thought that would be a neat thing for you to send to you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Very kind. But that's not where it ends, though. That's not where it ends. I also got – so, explain these to me. So, I've got a pack of three sort of yellow books here. And they say capsule on the front of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, that is one of the promotional ones that we talked about on the Field Notes episode. And, you know, that's not something I would know existed except for, you know, like Sandy McDonald. Like we talked about, he's posted different ones that he's got from, you know, different vendors or different organizations that have had special runs made. And I just decided – this capsule one looked really cool. They made a yellow one. But it's like a yellow – I don't know. It's a pretty bright yellow. And it's like a letter-pressed Field Notes cover.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And, you know, a special band. And I think they made a blue one as well. I don't have any of the blue ones. But I basically somehow found – I'd have to go back and look. I basically found one of their – I don't know if it's a PR person or some type of contact person. I emailed them. I said, hey, you know, I enjoy – I use Field Notes. I try to collect a lot of versions. I said, do you have any of these I can buy? Do you have any of these, you know, you can send me and, you know, I can make a donation on your behalf? And they said, oh, no, we'd be happy to send you some. And she sent me like three packs of them. So I shipped one off your way.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I appreciate that. When did you say you did that?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' When did I get them?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right before Thanksgiving or so.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah, not too long ago. I haven't had those very long.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm struggling to find a link to them anyway. Don't –

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You can link to my Flickr page where I took a picture of them, but I didn't really – I don't even know if I described them on there. I did take a picture of them in Flickr with a couple of other Field Notes items. But, yeah, I don't know. I don't know if you can – how easily they're hard to find online or not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I've been Googling for them. I haven't had much luck, but – so, there we go. Yeah, I remember you with this image. Now, this is after –

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I keep meaning to go tag that image a little bit better or write a description on it, and it's just one of those things. And a long list of things that I do part of the way and never get back to finishing. Interesting.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And there was one other thing that you included in this package. And this was something that my understanding was asked to be forwarded over to me. Yes. Is that correct?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I asked if I could. Yeah, I was lucky enough to get two of these particular pins, and I asked if I could send one to you, and they said, absolutely, freaking-lutely, send one to Myke. And this was the one I was worried about getting through customs.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's interesting. It's very, very interesting. So, you could probably do a better job of explaining this than I.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Well, what I sent Myke was – it's called The Bolt. It's from my friend Dan at Kara's Customs who built the Render K that everyone hears me talk about all the time. It's the orange pin that everyone likes to point out in my pictures. The Render K was a high-tech C-barrel, a machined aluminum barrel they launched on Kickstarter. It was their first project, and it did real well, and they made different versions of it. And then they moved on to the second project called The Bolt, and it's a bolt-action pin, which is – if you think of it – I've never owned a bolt-action pin before. I don't know if you have, Myke. No. They're not that common. But it's essentially – it's a take on a traditional knock or retractable pin. You basically – there's a knock on the end that you depress, and you kind of twist it over in this little bolt. But it's got like a machined cutout to where this bolt slots in and holds the pin down into the writing position, and then you push down and twist back the other way to retract the ink cartridge. And the particular one I sent you was a heavy-duty one. It's made out of brass. Yeah, this is – I have the aluminum one. Okay. And I sent you the brass one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You did. And this thing is incredible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, because I have the brass Render K, so I didn't need another brass one because they're really heavy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I sent you the brass one for the bolt. So what do you think about that pin? It's probably not like anything you've ever used before because it certainly wasn't – it was for me. I mean, I never used anything like this at all.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's not like anything I've ever owned before. I've never had one solid thing feel so sturdy. Like, it just feels like I could never break this. Like, there is no possible way I could ever break this pen. Right. There's a couple of interesting sort of points about it. One, it's far too heavy to be a daily use, in my opinion. Like, I couldn't use this all day every day. Yes. But it's fun to use. So, like, you know, if you looked at this and thought this is what I'd want it to be for my daily pen, the aluminium would probably be better for you. Yes.