Editing The Pen Addict 109/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pens ==


'''Anna Reinert:''' Well, it's, it is, it wasn't Germany and Statler is a German brand. So if, if that happens in the United States, let's hope everybody has to use crayon, a Crayola brand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We haven't, Myke and I haven't been, uh, keeping up as well with our Kickstarter activities like we normally do. You know, what's been, uh, the popular, popular projects, popular campaigns that have gone on, ones that have gone on to been successful. And I think we've missed these last two or three that, um, you put in these notes. And the first one that I found really interesting, but I couldn't find a use case for myself personally and did not back. It was the HMM rule one ruler. So now did you back the, did you back this one?

'''Anna Reinert:''' Would I, I've heard about it and there was only a few days left in the campaign. And, um, so I, I went ahead and posted, um, a little, Hey, check this out. It looks really cool. And then I went back to actually back it and had missed the deadline.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh no.

'''Anna Reinert:''' So I did not back it, but it had been really close to being funded. And so that's why I wanted to go ahead and get a post up while I had the chance. And then I was going to wait until payday.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, exactly.

'''Anna Reinert:''' To back it. And then I, I completely missed it. So, but it was, it was fully funded. And, um, I actually got a thank you note from, uh, the creator who said, thanks so much for posting about it. And we did get funding. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cause they, they, uh, they had a goal of 20,000 and they just clipped it at 23,748. And it, it looks extremely well done. And I'm anxious for people to get these in hands and maybe we'll get someone who I'm sure we'll see some reviews about them and we'll be able to link to them. Um, my not co partner, Jeff actually showed this to me first before I even saw it. He's like, Oh man, this is cool. And I don't know if he ever went around and backed it either or not. Um, but it, the way it integrates the pin into the ruler, um, looks great. And just the design of, I like ruler design for some reason. I like those nice clean lines of rulers. Um, for some reason for like on, uh, on my desk or whatever, even though I don't use them all the time. Like I have that, I have that nice heavy steel exacto ruler that probably a lot of people have, you know, it's like a 12 or 14 inch steel ruler. And I mean, I could, you know, I could take out a robber with that, you know, if he was coming into the house, it's like a serious business ruler, but this looks great.

'''Anna Reinert:''' And, um, it's, it's nice. And I like the, the sort of teardrop shape when you look at it from, uh, from one end. So they were showing it that you could sort of stick it in your book as sort of a bookmark as well, which I thought was kind of cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's perfect. So we'll keep our eyes out for when these start getting into people's hands. I want to see some in action. I may just have to back this after the fact, cause it looks pretty sweet.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And one other ruler, um, was that this one, I can't believe I didn't back. It was the cut once air air loom ruler. Yeah. How about that? Did you back that one?

'''Anna Reinert:''' I didn't, but I, from what I understand now, it has, they have done all of their Kickstarter, um, uh, rulers and they're actually, they've actually started a shop. So I think you can actually order it now on a individual basis.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So we'll put that link in the show notes, but I saw this one when it came out and that's, I'm, I was like you on that one. It's like, I'm going to come back. And, you know, at first I was like, maybe, maybe not. And then the more I looked at it, the more I thought that was just a really cool project. And the way they did it was really nice. And then it ended and I haven't backed it.

'''Anna Reinert:''' So, well, and I didn't actually hear about it until this week. Um, uh, the blogger, my supply room actually posted, um, that they had received theirs and they were talking about how much they liked it and how, how, um, really nice quality it was. And, um, so I'll make sure to get that in the notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Now this, this last one, I think you were all over this last one, right?

'''Anna Reinert:''' Oh, the click tape.