Editing The Pen Addict 545/transcript (section)

== Bullet Journal and Leuchtturm Partnership ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' From Bullet Journal. So Bullet Journal worked with Leuchtturm, which was their original notebook manufacturer for the Bullet Journal that you and I invented, that collaboration, right? Just out of thin air, me and you are responsible for that. I'm never going to let that go. Are we? We were the ones that recommended Leuchtturm to Ryder.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, yes. When we had him on the show, it was like, oh, you might like this kind of notebook. Yeah. Right, right, right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So now they have a long running partnership with Leuchtturm. They make the Bullet Journal version two notebook is amazingly good. So I implore people to check that out. You don't have to be a Bullet Journaler to use the notebook. It's just, it's mostly, you know, open pages, you know, notes. What's so good about it? Like pre-printed. The paper quality and the build quality. Right. It's, everything is upgraded from like, say your traditional Leuchtturm A5. The binding, the cover, the paper thickness, the construction of it. It just feels substantial, right? It feels really, really good. So it's super nice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I bought one of these. What am I talking about?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I bought one of these. They're great. And they're fairly priced. They're like 25, mid-20s, mid-20s.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was genuinely shocked by the quality of like all the foil stamping and stuff. Like, I don't know how they are making it for the price that they're making it, especially that it comes with the little pocket guy. Like, I just can't work it out. Yep. They must just be making it in such huge volumes. I guess. Honestly, the only way that I feel like you could sell this product for 25 euro, which is they sell it for, and make money on it, is they must be in large volumes. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because when they launched it, they sold out like immediately. Yeah. So I don't know what that volume looks like, or, you know, if it was just like a slow launch.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, actually, you know what? It's probably piggybacking on the volume that Leuchtturm make for their regular book, and they're able to like put a part of the production in for Bullet Journal.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know, because this one, this is different than any other notebook that they make.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, really? Yeah. I don't know why they do it. There's not,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' there's not a stock, there's not a stock version of this notebook, as far as I'm aware. Not that I've ever seen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it's different to the regular Leuchtturm 1938 than its construction, is that what you're saying?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, 1917. Yep. 1917. Or 1938. You know, one or the other. Whatever, whatever. Yes, it's different in construction. So, absolutely. I don't know how they're doing it then, man. Different dimensions, yeah, different everything. So anyway, the, the Dre Greffel, the pen is, was originally a Leuchtturm product, again, that Leuchtturm just launched in 2020, but they made this design that is really like a throwback design to like early 1900s, like German, you know, pen design. It's a really classic looking pen, but Leuchtturm launched it with like a dozen different colors. It's an aluminum barrel, and all the aluminum barrels are like these bright colors, colors, and like the nose cone and twist mechanism were white, and it's just this really super, very Instagrammable pen, and also like a very good pen in its own right. So, Bullet Journal collaborated with them to make a Bullet Journal model, and it looks fantastic, and that's, that's the kind of the reason I wanted to, to bring this up. It's just a really unique pen. It's on the smaller side of the ledger, right? It's not a, a big, big, chunky, overbearing pen. It's like a subtle type of pen that would go really good in conjunction, just sitting right, right next to your Bullet Journal. And interestingly enough, it ships with a 0.5 millimeter gel refill. And I talked about this on our gift guide with Anna, that this pen surprised me so much that I thought it would be a great gift guide. I knew I wanted to review it, and then I'm also giving it away on the blog, which I do a lot on review products. So I just thought it was worth pointing out. And what I missed in the beginning is the, the stock, uh, Drager fell from Leuchtturm. It, it just comes with a ballpoint, um, refills. And like I said, the Bullet Journal one comes with a 0.5 millimeter gel Parker style refill. The stock Leuchtturm apparently also comes in a mechanical pencil, which I haven't seen. And so people know how much I enjoy my mechanical pencil. So I'm going to look at that too. Uh, I need to add that to the 2023 shopping list, Myke, I think, because I think it's such a neat design. It's smaller than it appears on the pictures, right? Like I, I probably didn't do enough good comparison shots. I have like a handheld shot. You can see like how small it is. Um, but I, I like small pens anyway, so it's right up my alley.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I really love the look of the Leuchtturm version, the drag fell. Mm-hmm. Like, cause what I don't like about the look of the Bullet Journal one is the nose, like cone, like the cone, the tip that goes all the way down and brass, like it looks a little awkward to me with how long it is, but the Leuchtturm version has a grip section basically. And then also the tip of the pen, right? So I just think design wise, that feels more intentional to me. Like I like it more where I think with the Bullet Journal one, it looks to me like something went wrong.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm. It's a little starker of a line in the design, visually speaking, with the Bullet Journal, with the black and brass. I love the black and brass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks fantastic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' too large, that like just singular brass section at the end. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that was my only complaint. Like some people will not like the grip area of that pen because you can get too low and then you start tapering down the cone there. But like you can grip it a little bit further back too. So yeah, it is a little bit in the weird zone from a grip perspective. Like I didn't have a problem with it because I actually grip, I grip kind of on the nose cone itself in that particular pen, the way I hold it. And it didn't bother me, but it would bother some other people for sure.