Editing The Pen Addict 274/transcript (section)

== Pen Chalet ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Right. Well, tell us about someone that is elegant, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want to talk about Pen Chalet. Pen Chalet are helping to support this week's show. Pen Chalet have all of your favorite brands and all of the writing utensils that you're looking for. Whether you're looking for Pelican, Lamy, Pilot, Namiki, Sailor, Kaweco, maybe looking for rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, carrying cases, pen holders, refills, fountain pen converters. Everything you want, Pen Chalet have got it. They do great prices and great shipping. They're always doing discounts and sales. They have very fast and reliable customer service, and they do free shipping on orders of over $50 in the US, with great rates internationally for shipping too. Pen Chalet has low prices on high-quality pens and offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Got a killer offer this week. Go to penchalet.com. Click the podcast link at the top of the website. Enter the password penaddict. You will then find the code that you need to save 10% on anything at Pen Chalet, no matter whatever you want to buy, whenever you want to buy it. Just by going to penchalet.com and hitting the link at the top, entering the password penaddict, you'll get a code to save 10% on anything. But as always, also there you will find a special offer. This is one of those offers where I can tell you what the product is, but I can't tell you the prices. Pen Chalet are discounting all Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks. Thanks. Brad, is the discount good?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So this is where I say this is dumb. And by dumb, I mean amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like... How are they doing this kind of thing, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So I use that phrase a lot when I see these deals that Ron comes up with. I mean, it's in the no-brainer category, right? I mean, the A5 hardcover memo book is kind of the standard Leuchtturm. And softcovers.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They have softcovers too, which I love.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The softcovers are probably my favorite. Yeah. But the A5 hardcover is kind of the standard. I've never seen them. I've never seen them for that price. So... Actually... Yeah. Let me refine that. I've never seen them for close to that price.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So you've got to do it. You've just got to do it. If you like good paper, this is a deal that you need to get on. So penshalet.com. Hit the password link at the top. Enter Pen Addict and you will get access to these fantastic deals, which are exclusive for Pen Addict listeners. Thank you so much to Pen Chalet for their continued support. Their excellent support of this show and RelayFM. They really are just such a great company to work with. And they do one of the most fun sponsored deals that we have, which is an ever-rotating deal of incredibly useful and practical things. It's kind of amazing. So thanks. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It really is. They do a great job. And before we continue, while my power was out, I started working on my top five pens update that I suddenly published this month. And I noticed Leutstrom wasn't in my top five paper brands. It was in the also-rands. So look for that to carry on off the charts, if you will. Because it has become a very, very fountain pen friendly paper and one I enjoy very much. So... All right. Last week, we talked about a Kickstarter project. Not the Slice Notebook. We're not going to talk about that one again. But we talked about the Rollgut. And I don't know if I'm still saying that right, but I know it's German. And you looked it up while we were talking and figured out the origination of the name. And it made really sense. Made a lot of sense, I should say. And we got an email from the creator. He heard us on the show. So Thomas is the creator of the Rollgut. And I want to read his email because it's short and sweet. He says, hey guys, heard your podcast before bedtime yesterday. And I like how you've reminded me on the name finding process. Here's an insight. We've struggled with the misleading name in the beginning, but finally thought, ah, come on. Our product is rollable and great. Gut means just great in German without stuff. So let's teach the world some positive German words. There's also the wisdom. I got it in my guts that felt good in the context of analog stuff. At least the domain Rollgut.com was short and free. Have fun. I have Thomas. Oh, that was awesome. This was really, really good. So I love hearing that. I love hearing from creators. And I really love this project. Again, I'm not putting my money behind it because I just think I don't think I would use it, but I love it. It's really cool. So if you're looking for a really interesting carry type item, definitely check out the Rollgut. And Thomas is clearly, clearly a good guy for reaching out to us. Good spool. When you see that type of person behind the project, you know you're in good hands. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I mean, it will ever be Rollgut. It will always be Rollgut for me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It will always be Rollgut. Yeah. Yeah. But that's, yeah, I always feel bad because that's always unfair. Always unfair to these creators who really mean it. But I like it. He's just like- No, I think we were fair.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We gave them a good shake.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, we weren't. No, we did. We did. And he's, and I really like, he's like, oh, come on, let's just go with it. It's rollable and it's great. And that's what it means. So we're going with it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I've been in many of those types of naming situations in my life.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, I'm in one right now. So we're having a lot of fun with the seed notebooks and all kinds of ways you can imagine. And we knew that going into it, but we're like, you know, come on, let's be real about it. So yeah, I know. I feel you, Thomas. You're preaching to the choir here. So another good group of guys that I wanted to talk about are our friends, Ryan Krusak and Kerry Yeager, better known as Fountain Pen Day, Mr. Kerry and Ryan, the maker of wonderful fountain pens who I have become good friends with. And he's a Georgia, Georgia guy himself. So he's not too far away from me. One of these days I'll do a live in person at his studio. I was only a couple hours away from me. So I need to get up there. I have the, I have the open invitation. Haven't made it there yet. So Kerry let me in on a collaboration that they are doing for basically Sean Newton scholarship fund. And if you're not familiar with this, this is something that Sean has done with his Newton pens for as long as I've known Sean. And Sean sent me the details just on the scholarship itself. He says, we've given away $26,000 in the last five years to high school kids going to college, any kid, any school, any college, anywhere in the country. And we'll have a link. You can go learn about it. And in the past, they've done it by selling notebooks and postcards. Well, Kerry and Ryan got together to do a pen project. That's going to support Sean's foundation as well. And Sean's going to start an endowment. So all the money raised can go towards that. And the fund will, you know, kind of sustain itself and he won't have to do as much notebooks and postcard selling as he's done before to raise money. So what this pen is, is Sean, excuse me, Ryan has come out with a new pen model about, I think it's about a year ago. I think it was San Francisco last year called the Legend. And he makes it in two different sizes, the L14 and the L16. L14, I think it means 14 millimeter diameter barrel, 16 larger, 16 millimeter diameter barrel. And it's this great cigar wood shaped model, different types of wood. He makes the standard edition. This one's in what I think is probably the best. And it's, it's this ebony wood that Ryan has. And it's going to have like smashed turquoise fountain pen day logo into it. And I've got a picture of it. We'll put the picture in the show notes. And, and I'm sure y'all have seen it on my Instagram. If you're a pen addict member, I actually bought the first one of these in San Francisco. They haven't really officially launched this yet, but they allowed me to buy one. And I actually watched as I paid them for it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Ryan walked over to Sean and handed him his cut of the money from the proceeds. And it was a pretty big cut. It was, it was pretty nice to see the amount of money he brought over to him. And then I gave it away to pen addict members last week. So this is cool. It's a big deal that these great people in the community are getting together to create something wonderful. And as of right now, there's not a link to go to Ryan's page, but it's coming soon to where you can order these. And the final details aren't out, but I will tell you this, they are not going to be widely available. They're going to be, I think with Ryan's regular workflow, he was thinking about the he could make like five of these a month. So like 60 a year and they're beautiful. They're well worth every penny.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just don't know what to say anymore about this because I'm just in love with everything that he did here. The output, the cause. Yep. Everything's pretty much perfect. So go check it out. We'll have more news on this when you can actually officially go get in the queue.