Editing The Pen Addict 118/transcript (section)

== Pen Chalet ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Funny you should ask. Funny you should ask, Brad. Because I got that pen from our fine sponsor, one of our fine sponsors of this week's episode, the fine folks over at Pen Chalet. Awesome. Now, this pen is actually still available at the special offer that we spoke about a couple of weeks ago over at Pen Chalet. So there's one thing about that. We'll talk about how you get that in a minute. But, you know, one, you should definitely go and get it. And two, seriously, they've still got some available. How is that? What's happening, guys? Go over to Pen Chalet. Buy it. Buy stuff. So let me tell you about Pen Chalet. They are a fantastic company that sell amazing rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils. You name it, they've got it. They are an authorized reseller of all of your favorite brands like Pelican, Lamy, Pilot, Namiki, Sailor, and Kaweko. They run special discounts twice a month. They have closeout specials every two weeks. And they do special deals for pen addict listeners all the time. They have fantastic customer service, super reliable. I've had a couple of queries in the past with orders that I've made or I wanted to add a gift card for someone after I've made the order. They were able to get that in the straight way, responding lightning quick. They are always making sure that they're keeping their catalog up to date. They're adding new stuff all of the time. Every single month they're adding new things over at Pen Chalet. And as well as all the brands that I mentioned earlier, they sell limited edition pens and all the accessories that you're ever going to need, like carrying cases, pen holders, refills, fountain pen converters, and so much more. There's free shipping on orders of over $50 in the continental United States, but they also sell internationally with very reasonable shipping rates. Pen Chalet has super low prices on excellent quality pens, and they offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go over to penchalet.com, that's P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T.com, and use the code penaddict at checkout. That's going to get you 10% off your order. You want to do that, so you're going to save 10% on any order you make at Pen Chalet when you use the code penaddict, or one word. But what you really want to do is, on the homepage, you'll see a little link at the top that says podcast. Click that link and enter the code penaddict. You're going to find a bunch more cool special offers there. You can still get the Lamy 2000 at an incredible discount when you go over there. It's like 40% off or something incredible like that. And we have a special offer this week, another fantastic offer. This is on the Kaweco AL Sport in the colors raw and silver. Raw is the super shiny one, and silver is the more matte silver one. Now, this deal is purely while stocks last. It's on a first-come, first-served basis. The Kaweco AL Sport usually sell at about $80 for retail, but Pen Chalet are going to discount this by 25% to $60. And then, don't forget that when you go to checkout, always enter the code penaddict, and again, it's going to get you an additional 10% off. So, in this case, the final cost of a Kaweco AL Sport will be $54 with free shipping in the United States. So, make sure to get the extra special deals just for Pen Addict listeners, including the Lamy 2000 and the Kaweco AL Sport, that you click the button on the top of the Pen Chalet website. Enter the code penaddict, and when you've added all the things that you want to your cart, enter the code penaddict as your offer code at the end, and it's going to get you an additional 10% off anything that you buy over at penchalet.com. Thank you so much to Pen Chalet for their continued support of the Pen Addict and RelayFM.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, this AL Sport deal is kind of ridiculously good, as actually all the Pen Chalet's deals are. They're all really, really good. But I love the AL Sport, and the two colors that are available are my number one and number two favorite. I've owned the gray matte, or what do they call it, silver matte. I've owned the raw, which are the two available. I've owned the black matte, and I've owned the blue. If it tells you anything, I gave away the blue, and I gave away the black. So, I have two left, and it's the two that are available. The gray matte is my number one. It's the best. And then the raw silver, or the raw aluminum, it's really, really cool. It's one of those that you have to use it. The more you use it, the more banged up it gets, and the better it looks. Like, it looks really bad when it's new, almost. And you're like, oh, I'm going to scratch it up, ding it up. But actually, the more you use it, the more that finish really gets baked into the pen, and the better it looks. So, I'm down to those two. And it's kind of funny that those are the two that are available on Pinchelet. They are easily my favorites. The gray matte one is the best. So, and pro tip, for all you Kaweco fans, and I mentioned this before when I did the Lilliput review, if you own multiple Kawecos, buy a spare nib, and get it modified to how you like, and you can move that nib from pen to pen to pen whenever you ink up a Kaweco. A Lilliput, AL Sport, I move this one Curse of Italic nib I have into all my different Kawecos. So, that's an excellent, excellent tip right there. So, you can get one nib for your entire Kaweco lineup. So, even fits on some of the full-size pens, the Dia 2 and Student and some of those like that. So, the number five size nib. So, there's my pro tip for Kaweco.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. We got, I mentioned last week that I thought I might break out my Hobonichi in preparation for the new 2015 lineup that just launched. That's not going to happen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I took it out for like one day, and then I ended up using it, not using it for like the next four days in a row. But, there's something really cool that Hobonichi has done this year that is going to fit my needs better. They're offering up just some basic notebooks with the Tomoe River paper. And what they've done is they've designed two styles. With Hobonichi's planter styles, the Teco is the one that most people get. And they also have one called the, oh, I'm totally blanking, the Cousin, which is a larger size. So, they made two, what would you call these, compatible notebooks to go with these planter sizes. So, their whole Hobonichi's deal is the system, right? You get the planter, and you get the case, and you get the accessories, kind of like a Midori setup. So, with the Hobonichi, you know, they want you to buy the planter and then have the case to go in the planter. Now, they've made these extra separate notebooks that will slot into the different planter sizes. So, there's the A5 for the Teco, or I mean, excuse me, the A6 for the Teco, and then the A5 for the Cousin. And then they offer, for the Teco, the A6 is three memo pads of 48 pages of the Tomoe River and in a grid, in a graph pattern. And that's it. It's just like a blank pad, like a field note size, Myke, with the Tomoe River paper. And then for the Cousin, the one that they have is A5 size, and it comes in a two-pack of memo pads with the Tomoe River paper, same amount of pages. So, this is really cool. And I have ordered some of these this weekend. So, I don't know. It might be a few weeks before I get them. But I will definitely be reviewing these, and this is awesome to have the Tomoe River paper in just a plain blank graph notebook.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And one of the things about Hobonichi is the covers that they do as well, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Yeah, that's a big deal for them. I mean, they actually put a lot into the covers.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Tell me about them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, they just do a lot of different patterns, a lot of different styles, a lot of fun styles, a lot of bright styles.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And, you know, they have pin loops, pockets. They have accessories you can buy into them, you know, like business card holders. And they just want you to kind of have this whole setup like the Midori. Sorry. Now, people have asked us. We did a, with my Hobonichi Lux Vest Purse is telling me it's Techo. Techo? Oh, yeah. Hobonichi Techo. Is that better?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' With mine last year, we made a sample case. Jeff made me a sample case for Christmas for NotCo. And so, a bunch of people, I showed that off to a bunch of people. They loved it, want to know if we're going to make them this year. I'm going to tell you right now, we're not going to make them this year. So, I hate to disappoint everybody, but we are so busy. So, it's definitely on the radar for future years. It's not going to happen this year. Oh, my God.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They make a Tweed one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They make a bunch. So, yeah. Their cover lineup is pretty cool. And actually, last year, other companies like North Face made specific covers for these two. In conjunction with Hobonichi. So, I remember almost getting one of those last year because they were really cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, the Hobonichis are out. I think everyone's aware if you're a Hobonichi fan. And it's a killer product. And, you know, it's time to order the next version. So, while that's not on my shopping list, the planner, the memo books are. And I've kind of had another couple things to my shopping list, Myke, that I just want to tease a little bit. And we're going to talk about this when we kind of get into the main topic today, which is the buying process. During this buying process I went through in the past couple weeks, I found two more pens that I've added to the wish list. So, number one is the Sailor Sky Pro Gear Special Edition. If there's a pen design that speaks to me more than this one, I'm not sure what it is. It's a blue demonstrator with silver furniture and it's Sailor.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You love a Sailor, Doug.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I do love a Sailor. You know I love a Sailor. Excuse me. There he goes. He choked me up there. I don't see any way that I'm not buying this pen. Like, I need it like a hole in the head, but this is too good looking. This is right up my alley.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The Sailor Sky Special Edition. I don't see it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You mean you don't see it as a good pen or you, like, literally don't see it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't see it. I don't see why you're that crazy about it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, this is... I just like... I like blue demonstrators and silver hardware.