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== Kaweco Collabs ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So, you've got some new releases in here. Lots of collabs, as the kids call them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Collabs. We're going to talk about collabs. That's, like, my biggest topic on this is how to collab correctly. But the first one, I got emailed by Kaweco. I got marketed to, Myke, in an email that landed in my inbox just from Kaweco. Just their regular normal email. And they sent this collab with a graffiti artist, a street artist named Ombre. Which, who, I'm not art. I'm very much into, like, the street art and art type of scene. But I was not familiar with Ombre at all. And this set is, like, right up my alley. Like, it's a really cool, cool set. And, you know, it's got the Ombre logo on there. Like, you know, his tag. And, you know, I thought that was kind of cool for Kaweco to set this whole thing up. You know, it seemed like a very good, very good, unique collaboration.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What's interesting about it is, as soon as I pulled up the link, I was like, oh, it's a pen and a pencil set. And it's only 99 euros. I was like, that seems pretty reasonable for, like, a limited edition type of collab. And, you know, pricing-wise, it looked good. And then, like, I was a little bit confused, honestly, at the price. I was like, that seems cheap. And then I realized that the pen is not a fountain pen. Which they do a very poor job. I spent very, very many minutes trying to sort out what I'm actually purchasing. Because I didn't end up purchasing this. Because I don't have the pencil. You know, I like my 2mm pencil. Like my Caran d'Ache fix pencil. Those types of wide, kind of like a sketch pencil. So, I was definitely into that. I was like, wow, this pen. What is this pen? Because they never uncap the pen on any of the marketing shots. And there's, like, three pictures of the pen. And it's all just the barrel. Well, it's a gel refill. So, it's like one of the ballpoint rollerball AL sport gels. But it's still the aluminum barrel. It's still the metal barrel. But without the fountain pen nib, it'll have the roller gel. Which I don't think I have a gel refill for this. I know you're not a Cafeco guy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, what comes in the... Because I'm looking at a picture here on a company called Studio Pens. Because the official Cafeco website, it just says, sorry, no picture. Which kind of seems a little weird.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That wasn't there like that yesterday.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's two pens in this package?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a pen and a pencil. So, it's a 2mm pencil. Oh, so that's a pencil. The long skinny is the pencil. And then the standard sport shape is the pen. But it has a gel tip. But they already make those for a ballpoint. They make a ballpoint sport. I don't think I've ever bought or seen a gel roller. So, I don't even know what refill is going to be in this. If it's just like a D1. They use D1 refills for like their Lilyputs. And I think maybe the standard sports are D1s also. But I'm very curious at what this is. Maybe I have missed this over all my years I've been following Kaweco. But I've never seen a gel refill option before. So, I've ordered this. Number one, I don't have that pencil style. Number two, I don't have this pen style. And number three, I love the style of the collaboration period.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't understand Kaweco. I just don't understand them, Brad. I don't get it. Yeah, why? I didn't know they had a gel version of what clearly looks like a fountain pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, me neither.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Or like even a non-fountain pen version of the sport. I don't even know if I knew that existed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, they've made the pencil in a sport model before. Like, don't look at that pencil. Don't look at that pencil in this. That's not what I'm talking about. In the regular sport, the regular, you know, $20, $25 sport, you can get a mechanical pencil version with a click on the back.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Huh. Yeah, but at least that would look different, though, because it had a click on the back.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know? Yeah. Who knows? I don't get Kaweco. Less and less. I do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I get them, and I love them, Myke. I love them with all my heart. But I think this is a neat set, especially for the price. I thought it was a pretty cool price for, you know, two products that I don't have, which is pretty rare for me and Kaweco. Like, I have neither of these products, and it's just kind of cool. So I'm all for it. I have ordered that. So just if other people are interested in this. I did order mine directly from Kaweco. So it was, you know, I ended up paying like $20 in shipping from Germany. But I got a little bit of the VAT back. I think my price was around €89 and then €20 shipping. So with all that conversions, it ended up being like $130. It was, it's expensive. There's no doubt. But I still thought for what you get is a pretty fair price. Next product, Myke, I want to talk about. So that was the Ombre and Kaweco edition. The next one is Misubi and Le Reyes overgrowth. What do you think about this, Myke? I probably have more say about this, but yeah. It's pretty amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it looks beautiful.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so what Daryl at Misubi has done is had Le Reyes essentially paint or draw or put her artwork on the inside cover of these very, very unique fabric cloth diaries that, you know, Misubi makes some really, really cool stuff. I've seen this diary type of pattern before. I think it's Portuguese fabric, Peruvian, Peruvian fabric. And it's just this really beautiful black and cream pattern on the outside. And five of these went to Le for artwork. And they are then selling these five books via a lottery system, which we'll have a link in the show notes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I think I maybe misunderstood this at first. I thought that the entire journals had artwork in them, but it's just one page?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think. I was trying to read for clarification, but it's really made so you use the journal, right? So, you know, it's still a 200-something page journal. You're only going to, number one, you're going to want to use it. And number two, Le is not going to paint 200, not going to paint what essentially 1,000 pages of artwork and only charge, you know, like these are $435, which is massively expensive. But 100% of the profits are going to charity. They're going to an autism charity, which is just wonderful. Autism Resource Center in Singapore. So, you know, this is a very expensive notebook. But what it is, it's a piece of art and a way to support charity and a way to support two people. I'm super fans of, you know, Daryl and Leigh. I obviously, I think the world of them. So this is a really neat project. So what you do, I haven't put in for the lottery yet. I can't decide on this. Like, because my biggest hang-up was I would like to buy it and support it and have it as a piece of art. But that kind of goes, I think I would have a hard time using it. Right. Right? Like, I have to commit to using the things that I buy. So I've looked at the lottery. You can go in and pick, like, the five different artworks. Like, you can, like, favor it. Like, you can just, like, apply to bid or apply to get picked for one specific artwork or you can pick them all. You know, whatever you want to do. It's a really neat way they set it up. And it's like, number one, I don't know if I could pick. Like, okay, I maybe have two favorites out of the five, but they're all pretty great. But if I got it, I would have to use it. I would just have to use it, and I don't know if I can commit to that. But so I'm like, I've gone back and forth on whether I'm going to, like, submit for the lottery. But it ends in a few days. That's why I wanted to put this out there and let people look at it. And even if you, you know, this is a very, very expensive product, you know. So, but I just wanted people to be aware of Misubi, be aware of Le Reyes and her artwork, and look at the cool things that they do. You know, even if this is something that's, like, so way out of your price range, that's cool. Like, this is a special project, you know, to support a charity and to, you know, just shine a light on these two makers that I love. So I think it's pretty cool.