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== Kickstarter Success ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, exactly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But this one looks nice. Yeah, I said, I don't know, sometime on this podcast, maybe a year ago, if I was open to open an online pen store, I'd make it just pocket pens. That's how much I love that format. And there's a lot of choices out there. And this is a new one. So, it's a small barrel faceted pocket pen, aluminum, black satin finish, brass. I don't know what other flavors it comes in. And it's a good price. All of Enso's stuff is a good price. Like the pens started at $39. So, I mean, that's a really good price to get in and try something if you like the genre of the pen, if you will. So, you know, I like the pocket style, the, you know, all the Kawecos, the shown design. It looks like, you know, it's probably around the size of a shown design pen. So, three different aluminum finishes and a brass finish. I am all about this pen. Instaback. And I would check it out if you're interested in this pen. I'm probably going to do black barrel with black nib. That's something I don't have in a pocket pen. I've got plenty of traditional aluminum, brass, and raw aluminum pens. So, I'm going to go go something a little bit different, go black on black with this one. But I'm excited. He always, so Carlo, who runs Endzone, is the designer. He's always pretty efficient getting these projects out. So, and it's already blown out the goal. It's at almost 47,000 of a $5,000 goal with 22 days to go. So, this one's doing better than some of his recent projects, I think. I'd have to go back and look. But it's fantastic. I'm definitely in. And if you're into pocket pens, that may be something you check out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it looks like it's, you know, it's flying off the shelves, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it really is. I mean, the price, the price is right. I mean, what are you going to do? Yeah. I guess you could not buy it. That could be what you do. But if you're someone like me, it's a no-brainer.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's like, I see something like this and it just looks like a surefire Kickstarter success to me, right? Like, you've got all the materials there. Two types of aluminum and brass, right? And it looks decent. Like, it looks nice, right? There's nothing egregious about the design.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and the kicker is, it's Enso, and he's delivered lots of good stuff already. Yep. We said that about Nemisu, and, you know, we saw their trials and tribulations. But yeah, I feel real good always about backing Enso projects.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I don't remember the pen Uno.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, that's the high-tech C one, but they did the Nova, which was their big fountain pen, the large-sized cigar-shaped fountain pen. Which looks very nice. They did the pen Uno and pencil Uno a couple of times. Since I love the high-tech C.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Puma. Puma? Puma, sorry. No, Nova was Nemisu.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nemisu, sorry. Yeah, Puma. All these names. Kickstarter naming is fun.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So speaking of Kickstarter, I got one email I did get from Kickstarter was from my good friends at CW&T, who I very much love, Stayway and Taylor. They're awesome. They have a newsletter for all of their ongoing work, and this time they shared out a friend's work, which anything they're into, who I'm interested in. So this one's called ALOG Notebooks, and it's very interesting. It's an architecture-based notebook, so it's not for everybody because the base edition of this notebook has an Imperial Measurements and a Metric Measurements Edition, so they're very cool. And they have all these, this is a 130-page notebook, but 30 pages of it is like architecture, measurements, and things to use when designing and kind of guidelines and requirements. So it's, you know, it's highly specific. But then they also have a blank notebook, which I ordered, which is $15. So the architect editions are $25, but they have a blank notebook for $15. And I wanted to try it because it looks nice. I like the style, the size, the shape. It looks like it's a tape-bound, lay-flat notebook. So this is my kind of notebook just to use. And it's $15, and the shipping's free in the U.S. So I was like, it's kind of hard not to buy this. But I thought I would share this because I like what Taylor and Sewey do, and I wanted to share one of their friends who makes a neat stationary thing. And if you happen to be an architect and are checking this out, this might be very useful for you. And then, you know, if you're just a nerd, you can get their little enamel pens that they have. So they have ALOG notebook pens and outlet pens and glue pens. I like the pens a lot. All little, they have all these architecture drawings in their notebooks, and they've taken some of these drawings out and made them into, like, accessories. So it's just a little something I found interesting that I got in my inbox this week that I hadn't seen before. So I think it looks pretty neat.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So should we give an update on the Kickstarter campaign? We should. So we have now passed $25,000, which is wild town. We're on our way to 26 as we record this. We're over the hump at $25,641. So the train just keeps on rolling. It's wild. Thank you to everyone who is continuing to back the project. Brad, what updates do we have?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think this is going to end up being fantastic for our backers from just the videos alone. Like, I think this is going to be, like, you know what, you're going to get an awesome Atlanta Pen Show podcast live video, which you always do. Like, every year we do that better, in my opinion. Unbiased opinion, of course. But I think every year it gets better. But this year, going to New York City and Toronto, two places neither of us have really been to do the things that we're going to do. You know, go to CW Pencils, go to the Toronto Pen Show. So we're going to be able to show our kind of initial amazement of doing these things and our excitement and, like, our passion for why we're doing this. And I think that's going to show up in what we provide to all the backers. And to help us with that, I invited my Pen Show wife, Anna Reinhart, to join us in New York City and Toronto.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And that's because we've gotten to this point. So, like, we didn't necessarily talk about this because we figured it would happen and we didn't feel like we needed another stretch goal. But we felt that if we reached, like, 25, then it would easily allow us to bring Anna along on the trip, too, because we can pay for her travel. So thank you for doing that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I asked her in LA. She accepted. So she is going to be joining us.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it's really awesome. And I've already had people send emails or tweets to me say mostly, are they Torontonians? Do you know if that's accurate? I'm sure the chat room will tell me. Torontonites, I like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But several people in the Toronto area have reached out saying, hey, I know the area. I live here. We can, you know, I can help you plan a, you know, a meetup or whatever y'all want to do. You know, I can help you coordinate things. So this is, I'm really excited to see what we're going to do on this trip because I think it's going to be amazing. I mean, every year is the best year ever, but I don't see how this is not the best year ever, right? I mean, I've never been more excited about one of our annual projects than I am about this one. Did you want to talk about the pins?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What about them? About extra pins. Oh, for the extras. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So a lot of people are asking for extra sets of enamel pins and I'll do this in our next update just as a reminder. But if you want extra set of enamel pins, just add $10 to any pledge level and we'll be sure to get you a set of pins. So you can do that for whatever level you're at. If you just want, you know, one set of pins on the video level, add $10. If you want more on the everything level, add 10 more dollars. I mean, if you want five sets, add $50. So we'll order enough pinsets because everyone's wanting them. Now, you know, if we have extras at the end, we might have a few for sale, but that's not going to be an item you're going to be able to really purchase afterwards. It's not going to be an ongoing thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That would be like pen show of sales or something, right? Yeah. This isn't going to be a thing that will be available. So if you do want those and you want to get yourself a couple of sets, I mean, I know for me, because I would want to have like one on display, but then keep one to the side in case I lost my face, right? So I would have a couple of sets and that's what I know a bunch of people did. So if you want to get extra sets of the three enamel pins that we're doing, then just, just add an extra $10 in and it will be able to work it out. This, this will be something we don't need to order until it's done. So it's like easy for the accounting perspective to know how many we're going to need.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And I'll tell you right now, like whatever our number is, it's going to be like, I might order like 30 more or 50 more. We're not going to have a whole slew of extras. Yes. I mean, and a lot of those will go to me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Probably so. Probably so. So, so the people in LA were ready for the pins. Pins, pins.