Editing The Pen Addict 496/transcript (section)

== Foundation Discussion ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I was thinking maybe habit could also be an interest.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I hate that word. Right. But that's an entire other podcast. Like I don't hate that word. Like I get the word, but like it's got some of the like hashtag productivity connotations that I. Yeah. I just can't. I can't. It's the whole thing. Which is good. Like I've tracked. I track a lot of things. Right. But like the the recurring scheduling habit and stuff, it's just the whole whole thing for me. So I like I'm like I believe in habits, but I don't like go like full like habit habit days. Yeah. In the way that I do things. It's never really worked for me in the full sense of the words. But I do know that that's a very it's a very positive term. But like I just I don't do good with it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' OK.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just me. Just me. So I like reset. I'm going to look at I wrote down foundation. I'll think about this a little bit more. But I'm still the whole point of this is like this is a process. Right. Like today we don't solve the reset. Right. But we think about it and we work on it, you know, for the rest of the year and the years to come. Right. That's that's what this is about. So I appreciate the feedback, Kelly, and I think it was very, very smart. And I like it a lot. Second bit of feedback, Myke, from another smart listener by the name of CY from our friends over at Tokyo Inklings reached out about the Sailor Bespoke conversation we were having. Yeah. And he let me know. And I think you were copied in these tweets that this is actually what we were talking about. The website, the Sailor Bespoke website was the Sailor customization that you could physically do at the Ancora shop that CY had talked about going in and doing. So this is the next phase in that original customization and building. I like to build a pin or build a gear. Right. The build a pro gear at the physical shop. This is now the online version of that. And like I asked, like, where are these pins being built and CY confirmed that they're actually built at the factory. You know, you order on site, you order through the website, factory build, like all the parts are made. It's just an assembly type of thing. And that's how they'll be able to like shift in like, hey, this is this limited edition barrel type of type of thing. He also mentioned that I forgot to mention that the Naginata nibs are available as an option on these, which is a big deal. And I saw that before and it was in my notes and I forgot to mention it. So that's one of the Sailor Bespoke nibs that they're offering with this. Obviously a premium price on that. And I couldn't get that exact premium off the website. I'm a several hundred dollars premium. But what's good about that is for someone like myself who actually has always wanted one of those nibs. The only option for me to easily get in the States was that nib in a standard black pin with gold trim. Right. Right. So which has never been something that I'm interested in for that pin. So I would hold off. And now I can look at that nib. Still just a gold plated nib. Right. The other 21 carat Pro Gear nibs for this bespoke thing you can get in the rhodium plated or the ionized plating. But I can get the Naginata nib at least in a cool barrel that speaks to me a little bit more than the basic barrel that it ships in for now. I think the model, if you get the Naginata nib and just the basic black and gold barrel, I think it's around $600 US, somewhere in that ballpark. So I imagine there'll be a little bit more in that custom thing. And I don't know that that's ever going to be something like totally worth it for me. But that is pretty cool. I think that Sailor is doing that as an option to have that specialty aspect into this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. And hopefully we get them one day. I did have a vague memory when we were talking about this last week, feeling like we'd spoken about it before. But what we had spoken about before was that store thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And the thing we mentioned, I mentioned last week, like the website, when you go to the Sailor Bespoke website, the shop link is to the Ankora store. Yeah. Right. Like it's not just like to Sailor's main website. It's to Ankora itself. So anyway, this is cool. Like if they keep working on this and building on this, like, and I feel like the price is right for it. I think it could be a thing. You know, it might be something. I don't know if we'll ever, like, you know, if they'll be able to like ship to the US type of thing, like a worldwide type of thing. But it's fun to watch and see what happens here. So I think it's pretty cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Maybe. Maybe.