Editing The Pen Addict 59/transcript (section)

== Field Notes Popularity ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wow. Yeah. I, I don't have mine yet, but I, I mean, I'm pretty excited about this. I mean, this is, this is serious business right here. I'm going to make, I'm going to make a bold prediction right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's that little, go on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This version is going to sell out before the America is beautiful is sold out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I think so. But even they said like it was two days for the black, their last black ones to sell out. And then they print a lot more now. Yeah. So it takes them longer.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' America is as beautiful as 45,000 and this was 45,000. And for the first time since I've been following field notes, this is the first time a previous edition hasn't sold out before the next edition came that I can remember. There's probably been a case, but they printed so many of them now. I've never seen a previous edition not sell out before the next one was released. And I think this one's going to sell out before the last edition. This is really, really a cool edition. That's, that's a lot of people are going to chomp, chomp to get.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it's using a, um, I'm trying to find the paper here. It's 50 pound tea. Um, no, I can't remember what that meant now. So it's not as thick as the America, the beautiful paper. But it's thicker than the standard paper. So I did a test with, um, my Twisby stub nib. And it was just very, very slight bleed through, very slight, so much so that it wouldn't be an issue. But I was very surprised to see that sort of nib and ink distribution perform so well on this paper. So, again, I think that they paid attention to, and, and Anna at the well-appointed desk, she got hers like on Monday.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So she put her review up and I agree with her that I think that the guys at Field Notes, guys and gals over at Field Notes, um, listened to all the great feedback that they'd gotten.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Yep. She made it, she made a, she made a pretty clear point about, um, you know, the, the paperweight. And she's actually friends with Brian, who's involved with Field Notes. You know, I think everyone was, the best part of the Americas, you know, I didn't fawn over the America is Beautiful Edition like everyone else did last time. So, but I did fawn over the paper that, paper choices that they were making now. Um, and I, I still owe my, uh, my paper list that I said I was going to make and share out with everybody for the Field Notes. But, um, you know, I, I think they are listening. I think they have improved the paper quality. And then we'll see, what we'll really see is if that translates into the stock editions later on. I don't know. They don't, they don't really have a reason to change the stock edition paper. And they probably won't because there's probably some added cost to that. But, and the stock editions are totally fine. The paper that they've always used has been fine. It's just for us that are real particular and use, you know, some, uh, wider fountain pen inks, uh, and some fountain pen inks with wider nibs and things like that. There is some bleed through. It's not the best fountain pen paper, but, um, there has been some improvements like in these last two editions. So, it's pretty exciting.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, I think you're going to love them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think so too. Um, I've never used, uh, this type of graph before. I'm wondering how large it is when I really get to using it. Like, is it going to be in the way? You know, is it, as opposed to like a dot, you know, a dot's pretty unobtrusive. Is the, is this, uh, is this graph going to be a little bit in the way? Probably not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't think, I don't think you'll have a problem with it because you're, you're a man who likes graph paper. So. Right. It would, it would really surprise me because I like it. I think it looks really stylish.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. No, I think it looks great. And, uh, once in use, we'll wonder, I'll wonder how it's going to go. Yeah.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that reminds me, I need to go update my field notes page. I still, I just need to take pictures. I'm slow on taking pictures. I need to take pictures of America the beautiful. So maybe when this one, uh, this one gets in, I will add that, add those updates as well. And like you said, it's super easy. It'll take me longer to take the pictures and edit the pictures and upload them than it will to add them to the page. That's for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. So whilst in San Francisco, I was able to get my hands on some, some field notes books that I've been waiting to get for a long time. One is the XOXO set. Nice. The purple set. Yep. And the other is one of the, um, there was a Kickstarter for a company called Studio Neat and they did a, um, an app called Simple Bracket. And with that, they were giving away, um, a field notes book with a basketball stamp on the back. And I was going to back them, but they couldn't ship them to the UK, but I was able to get one of those too. So I've added those to my page.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's fantastic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm really happy to have the XOXO ones.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. You've wanted those ever since we started seeing pictures of them last year. Um, you were, you've been anxious to get those. I was able to trade for a set, uh, of them, but I only had one, uh, the one set. So, um, I know I was never able to send you any, but, um, it's, it's pretty cool. Um, I really liked the Simple Bracket one. I actually, when the, when Studio Neat, um, launched the Kickstarter, I think they were going to do it in green. And that's the one I really wanted. And they, I think there was a, ended up being like a paper problem and they ended up doing the orange, uh, which is totally fine. It, uh, it, it came out well. They did a good job with that for, uh, I know a bunch of us did the, uh, did the Simple Bracket, um, back for, uh, March Madness for the basketball tournament. I didn't know. I led some, some pin addict groups and things like that. So they, uh, I'm a, I'm a fan of Studio Neat and, uh, I'm definitely a fan of anyone that gives away field notes on their projects. I'm good with that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Indeed. Especially custom ones.