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== Magnesium barrel Kickstarter pens ==

* So, how long until we see a magnesium barrel Kickstarter pen, now that we've talked about it on the- Surely someone's done it, right? You would think so. But if they haven't, what will happen is someone will do it, and then within a 12-month span, there'll be 75 magnesium pens. Yes. Just for the Pilot Hi-Tech C refill. Titanium, man. That's titanium. And Caroline writes in and says, I'm old, so take this for what it's worth. Yeah. Hey, welcome, Caroline. I love all the people that are saying how old they are now, not knowing how old I am. How old are they? Yeah. But my favorite pencil sharpener is the old Boston hand-cranked one that we screwed to every teacher's desk in the 1960s. We had one screwed to the back door of our basement. I now have one screwed to the top of a little bookcase in my office. I had the Blackwing handheld one, and it came in a sampler box that I got, but nothing compares to the Boston sharpener. There is a lively second-hand market for these things on eBay. That's the one I grew up with in school. Like, you just, like, vivid memories of that Boston logo on kind of like the off green and chrome, probably magnesium front-end sharpener, the face of them. But that was the sharpener in schools. They probably had, you know, like all kinds of contracts with schools at the time. And that was the one that you would also see, like Caroline's mentioning, at home. If someone had, like, a workshop area or a garage, a lot of times you would see these sharpeners mounted up on there. And there's a lot of people that will restore them nowadays and kind of bring back that vintage thing. I don't know if they're still making, like, new sharpeners, if that company makes sharpeners at all these days. But, yeah, that was the go-to sharpener at the time. It looks like the answer is no.
* That they still exist? I don't know if they still exist, but they do not make products anymore. Like, pencil sharpeners, it doesn't look like. Because every search I'm doing is just taking me to different things, you know? Yeah, it's such a generic name, too. And I'm wondering, like, did someone, did they just go away? Did someone buy them out and absorb them into some other, you know, conglomerate? And it just doesn't exist anymore. Who knows? Who knows? There we go. So there's another article someone can write, The History of the Boston Pencil Sharpener. Brad, I literally just found. Where are they now? I just found an article called Death of a Brand, Boston Pencil Sharpener Company. There we go. This is from, oh, it's from Patrick Ng.
* Unscription. Nice. So that's back in January of 2010. So I'll put front of the show Patrick's article. I would like to read that. Yeah, it's in the show notes. Oh, that's hilarious. Yes. You go, Patrick. That's funny. That's very funny.
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* We're going to talk about my pencil kit later. And if I was just making a stationery kit for any stationery, this is in the top five or ten items that I carry. It's one of the greatest products around. This design has been in Caran d'Ache's lineup for like 100 years. They have a 100th anniversary one that I couldn't get years ago. And now it's just secondary markets. Like way too expensive for that.
* I've got some good looking Heinz pens on here too. Yeah. So the Heinz. So that one just that one shocked me. That's a great, great troll job from Ron there. And I appreciate that very much. So they have a bunch of the great Heinz pens. Awesome colors. I really am really digging Leonardo DiPenchi. The colors of that one. It's pretty amazing. And I just like saying the name. And then the Butterfly Cove and the Let's Flamingo. Like, you know, I'm about some Flamingo pencil there. Oh, if you scroll down further. So the fixed pencil, there's the second one in there. I thought that would have been in the same dropdown. There's a two millimeter and three millimeter version. If you want to know what I prefer. Yeah. I prefer the two millimeter just for the record. But, you know. You'd like the one millimeter if they did that. Then we're getting into 0.9 millimeter mechanical pencils. And there's not enough variance there. So I would probably try it, though. I'm sure. I don't know if anyone makes a 1.0 millimeter. But 0.9 is pretty popular. Aside from our sale page, I did want to bring up the Dracula set that they're selling. Since it's that time of year, it is spooky season, Myke. The Leonardo Wearingool Dracula set and ink. So you get the Dracula pen. You get the Dracula box. You get the Dracula ink from Wearingool. And it's just kind of a rad kind of combination. Oh, this is cool. We'll put a look in the show notes. Yeah. So it's just a little set they put together. A little combo pen and ink set with some special artwork. And a really beautiful pen, honestly. This pen is pretty amazing. Do you know I've been there? You might have known this. But do you know I've been there? I've been to this hostel. Yes. In Transylvania.
* Yes. Yeah. I remember that. It was several years ago. Yeah. I think we've talked about that offline. And you're like, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You got to do the fun tour. If you do the educational tour, they don't tell you anything you want to know.
* What you want is the fun tour where they talk about Dracula. Because otherwise they just don't. But it's a beautiful castle. And Transylvania is a really nice, actually a really nice place. Yeah. So, and Pen Chalet is a really nice place to go check out all these pens. And apparently pencils too. Go get your Caran D'Ache Fix pencil. So you too can experience one of Brad's favorite products of all time. P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T dot com slash penaddict. And thanks to Pen Chalet for their continued support of this show. And Relay. All right, Myke. We have our shout out of the week. Shout out of the week. Dime Novel Raven. Multiple times shout out. At least twice. Because I just love Casey's blog. And they posted an article this week. Very, very straightforward. Brown. Anything but nondescript. I have become a Brown Inc. fan. And if you had that on the bingo card in my early days, there's no way I would have ever thought you would have filled that spot. I just didn't understand Brown Inks. I don't know why anyone would use a Brown Ink. Look at all these pinks and purples and bright greens and blues you can use. Why would you ever want to use a Brown Ink?