Editing The Pen Addict 134/transcript (section)

== Dry Transfer ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yes. Oh, without a doubt. So number 23 on the list is the dry transfer edition. This was a really strange edition for me. This was one that. What are you going to say?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sorry, I keep butting in on you today. No. Dry transfer was my first.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I remember we talked you and I talked about this edition a lot. And it's really cool in the fact that, you know, it's a basically a blank craft notebook. And then they have these, for lack of a better term, stickers. It's not stickers. It's basically like a press on. It's dry transfer. It's dry transfer.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I know of it as being called Letroset.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. I haven't heard that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I think that that might have been a brand, Letroset. But yeah, that's something I know. Letroset dry transfer.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So that way you could actually title the field notes as you wished. Right. You could instead of saying field notes in the awesome Futura font, they give you a set of letters and numbers and you can make your own title for your books like I Love, I Myke or something like that. And I just never got into doing that. You know, I have them sitting around and I am so anal retentive that it would drive me berserk if I didn't get that on straight or centered. So I never did it. And so therefore, I've never really had any use for this edition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The video I think that Brian made had him like drawing out with a ruler and everything, didn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I still have my dry transfer paper with some unused letters on them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Did you actually use one? Did you build one out?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I used them all because at the time it wasn't a collector thing for me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure. Well, what did you put on the front of them? What did you spell?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can't remember what I put on all of them, but I know one of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You probably put I Love, I Myke on there too. Probably.

'''Myke Hurley:''' One of them said 70 decibels on it. Ah. But I don't know what the rest said. I can't remember.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I don't know. That edition almost kind of gets lost in the shuffle for me. Like no one really talks about it. No one really, you know, when they came out, they were hot because you could customize them like that. And that's always a big deal. But number 22.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The reason is Letraset was a company in the UK and they were known for making dry transfer lettering.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They were one of the main companies that actually made it. So that's why I know it as Letraset because when I grew up, it was made by the Letraset company and they kind of trademarked it and et cetera, et cetera. So it's like, you know, like Kleenex, you know, like a brand becomes the thing. Well, that was what Letraset was like for us.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Very cool. Very cool. Speaking of you, you growing up and we're going to have to do this one episode. There was a Twitter explosion after one of our episodes where the Filofax talk and all the yikes stuff. So we're going to have to go back to your childhood early next year and get that out of your system because I don't want to see all that stuff clogging up my feet again. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You kind of got bombarded for a couple.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I did. It was awesome though. It was cool. So we'll, we'll bring all that back and we'll, we'll talk about yikes and Filofaxes and Myke's childhood stationary. So that's maybe a good, a good topic for 2015 Pan addict podcast. All right. Number 22 is the famous world famous shelter wood edition.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm coming around slowly on this edition, Myke. And that's what happens to me sometimes. You know, I have my initial thoughts, love, hate, somewhere in between. And then as more additions come out and new things are on the market, it changes my opinion of some of the older additions. I'm yet to use a shelter wood. I've always greatly respected this edition. It's a amazing edition. And they actually, it was so popular. They made a similar stock edition called the cherry. It's cherry wood, I believe. So they carry a wood veneer stock notebook now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's still one of the most impressive editions ever made. It hasn't been useful for me. This would be a lot of people's number one edition. I still don't get it. But I'm open to listening. If that makes sense, because they're doing this stuff like the Starbucks Starbucks one. So this this wood veneer covers are not going away. They've become a thing. They're impressive.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They look incredible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They look incredible. They're amazing. And you know, our friend of the show, Myke Dudak, he is taken to getting some of the shelter woods and doing like a wood burning stamp on the back of his. So you can do so much with this shelter wood edition. It looks really, really cool. But I don't use it. I've never used it. I don't know if I am, but I'm coming around, people. You're breaking me down.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You need to use one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I should. I should. And actually, in retrospect, I would use it now before number 21, which is the ambition edition. That's been kind of a letdown for me. Um, it's been a hugely popular edition. We talked about it a couple of weeks ago. I had to stop using it because I wasn't enjoying it. Um, I don't know what it is. It's a flat out beautiful edition. Um, it's the, it's the gift that will keep on giving this Christmas. I'm sure lots of people are getting this in their stocking because it's just, it's really holiday centric. And I don't know. It's, it's a good looking edition. It's just not for me. And I still haven't been able to pinpoint why.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think you have to be a person that uses notebooks in this way. And I don't think either of us are.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think that's fundamentally it. Like, I don't think either of us keep daily journals, you know? Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Um. Yeah. I actually mailed out my extra ledger. I mean, not the ledger, the, uh, the calendar, the journal one. Yeah. So yeah, I just don't have a huge, huge import.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is, this is the only set since I started collecting that I've not ordered another pack of. The, literally the only set. Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Interesting. Interesting.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because I will never use these and I know I'll use the others.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Um, there you go.