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== Introduction of a new product - Dominant Industry Ink Archiving Book ==

* All right. We got another new product, uh, one that we have talked about before, one that again, I've just started using and that's the dominant industry ink archiving book. Mm-hmm. Myke. Um, this is something we've talked about in the past. This is the second version. Um, the first one was like Atlantis or something that's, it's kind of themed. So dominant industry is an ink maker and they also make kind of ink swatching accessories to where, you know, like little tools to help you explore, um, your ink colors and play around with the inks and see what you can do with them. And then last year, or maybe two years ago, their first ink archiving book came out and it's this really thick, you know, probably like 200 page book that has a really fountain pen friendly paper to color. Right. And not just any type of coloring, like fountain pen ink coloring as you've so perfectly put in here in the show notes, extreme adult coloring. I know we've spoken about this product a bunch of times. I don't think I understood truly what it was until I watched your, your stream. Like I watched a clip of, I watched you using it on stream, but that you're, you're just, it's, it's, it's, it's like a, an excuse to put ink on a page, right? You're coloring in essentially with fountain pens or like swatching. I don't know how this didn't click with me, but I think it actually took me seeing how you were using it to understand exactly what it was for. Yeah. So there's a couple of ways that I did it. And like with any type of coloring or, you know, swatching or testing, you have to find the way that works the best for you, right? There's different ways to do it. So the way this book is laid out and I'll find a picture or we'll put a link in the show notes to this one page that I did. I'll find it and send it to you. On the left-hand side of the page, there is kind of a, the, the concept is, Hey, what colors are you getting ready to use? Right? So there's little squares and little lines where you can color in the square. Say it's this color. Like for example, the first one on my page is pilot or Roshizuku Toro, which is like a yellowish orange. So I colored it. So I took a standard dip pen and dipped it in the ink bottle. So I got the full color expectation of what that color would look like using it in a traditional fountain pen. So on this left-hand side of the page, there's room for like eight, there's eight boxes for eight different colors. I use six and played around with these six colors. So on the left-hand side, I use the dip nib, right? So I can get the, what is the pure out of the bottle color? Okay. Then on the right-hand side is like an image. So mine is like a little town. And it's got like some houses, a street, you know, a horse-drawn carriage, an elephant. Like, you know, there's just all kinds of whimsical, like there's cats, you know, and an elephant and a cat riding a horse and just fun stuff like that. It's a long walk, the design. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this book is intense. Like, and it's only like $22 for this book. And it's like, it's crazy how much stuff is in here. So on this side of the page, what I did is I have a little palette where I dropped some ink from each of these bottles that I used on my testing page, right? So these six inks that I used in each little palette section, I took some drops of ink, put them in there. And then I took a water brush and then I took the water brush to the actual scene and just tried to paint however you wanted. But it's really for playing with color and seeing what types of ranges some of these colors have. And then also just like having fun coloring, right? Like, you know, coloring this elephant and coloring this house and seeing how these inks behave on a really, really good paper when they're washed, right? They're washed with like a color. And, you know, they're lighter and darker depending on how much water in this water brush. It's essentially water coloring with fountain pens, but you're using this like a, I use a singular water brush and you just kind of clean it, rinse it between uses here between switching colors or you can mix them all up, right? It's just a fun way to use your fountain pen inks and just have a little, you know, little you time spending coloring. And it's so enjoyable and so fun. I love trying to pick out the colors. Like before I looked at this page and looked at what colors I wanted to use. And I tried to pick a range of colors that I would use that would give me kind of the aesthetic that I wanted. And it's just fun experimenting with that. Like, you know, there's just have fun, make a mess, explore the colors. Like I really, really want to just like keep going on this. And this paper is like really good for this. Like it holds your water well. Like it's, it's, it, it, you think it would be like, I don't know, kind of tough to use, but man, it, it shows off the ink well, holds the water well. And, uh, it's really good. So I highly recommend this. If you have a lot of fountain pen inks and this feels like what to do with them all made for the person who bought too many ink vents. Yeah. Yeah. This could be your ink bit filling notebook. And you would like, what am I supposed to do all these vials? Exactly. Provide the product for you, you know? Exactly. So yeah, it's just fun to mix and match. So like the next, next page I'll do, you know, I'll pick a bunch of new colors and see how that goes. And you can skip around, pick whatever colors you want, you know? Um, there's so many pages you could cut some out, send them to friends and things like that. But like this, this, like a lot of notebooks, this book is made to be destroyed, but, um, they, they kind of, the way they designed it, it makes you just want to fill up the whole thing and, and, and use it. So it's really cool. Highly recommend, um, this ink archiving book. I'm definitely late to the party on this and, uh, could not be more pleased with, uh, everything that it offers.
* Let me tell you a place where you can get this Dominant Industries notebook. It's where I got mine, Myke. With a great discount. It's our friends at Pen Chalet. Pen Chalet sell authentic, amazing rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, all the accessories you're going to need, like notebooks and refills and converters and carrying cases. They have products from your favorite brands at the best prices you're going to find. Pen Chalet runs special discounts twice a month. They have closeout specials every two weeks too. And they're always adding new products to the site. You're always going to find new stuff being added to Pen Chalet. New products from brands that you know, and maybe brands that you don't. They're really good at curating an excellent selection of products. Pen Chalet have fast and reliable customer service. They ship internationally with great shipping rates. And they do free shipping on orders of over $75 in the U.S. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens and offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to PenChalet.com slash PenAddict. It's there that you'll find a code that you need to save 10% on anything at Pen Chalet. But you'll also see a selection of exclusive offers because you listen to this show. What have we got, Brad? Here's what we're going to do, Myke. We're going to do what they call in the business a call to action. Which, you know, like is a horribly creepy thing to say. Like it's words that I hate, but here's what we're going to do because this page is set up for us. You go over to Pen Chalet and you buy your dominant industry ink archiving book, right? And then you go click on the YouTube radio podcast button. You type in the code PenAddict. You don't even need to do that. You can just go to PenChalet.com slash PenAddict. You know, you can type it in. Yeah, there you go. And it brings you right to this page. Monteverde color changing collection found pennings. Let's go. Right there at the top. So you have not only a set of fun colors to play with, these colors also change with this little solution that they have. So you have like double the pleasure, double the fun with all of these inks, Myke. So you can get black to green, blue to neon yellow, burgundy to orange, deep blue to pink. Imagine all of these colors in the dominant industry ink archiving book. I'm just saying it's something to think about. Brad, even more, once you scroll down the page, incredible prices on vials of inks. Oh, yeah. So Colorverse inks, Hiroshizuku inks, Private Reserve, Sailor, so many more. So again, like perfect if you want to do the dominant industries thing. Yep. And if you don't, if you're just looking at fountain pens, say, Brad, I just need a fountain pen. I need some cool fountain pens. They have the Endless Captiva here, which is the kind of like twist piston that I've always said I was going to buy. And now it's at a really good price. It's got this barrel cut out on the back end of the barrel that it has like the piston mechanism in there. It's really cool. The Kaweco original, like if you don't like the shorter Kawecos, this is the full size aluminum barrel Kaweco. That's a great price and a really, really great pen. And Estabrook JR, they did the Fantasia edition. And so this is a good limited edition that is now on sale over there at Pen Chalet. So yeah, lots of stuff this week to go check out. So go to pennchalet.com forward slash penaddict. And that's where you can get your hands on these incredible deals and discounts. So thanks to Pen Chalet for their continued support of this show and all of Relay. All right, Myke, we got our shout out of the week. Shout out of the week. Did I do okay for you this week? You left me space. I feel like I've been letting you down. Yeah, I did. Which is the important thing. I had to get back in the routine. It took me a while, admittedly, admittedly.
* My routine is apparently to continue to shout out many people that we have shouted out before. This week, I want to shout out Sugar Turtle Studio. Tom's a great friend and a great part of our community. Was just at the Chicago Pen Show. Always has a great table. Always teaches great classes on journaling. And this time, I wanted to bring up the Sugar Turtle Studio Instagram because Tom did a fun post where it's called, birth month equals you as a pen. So I want to read these, Myke, and see what you think about your choice. And people can go look at these and see what they are. This is just something, you know, Tom's making up and does a really, really, did a really good job with this. And it's super fun. So this is you as a pen, what your birth month says about you. So January, you're a dip pen diva. I hate it. Okay. Yeah, hate it. Can't handle this dip, honey. I'm a January baby. And I don't like to be. You're January? Yeah, I don't like to be described as such. Why was I thinking you were February? All right. Because I'm January 31st. Like, I'm at the end. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. So yeah, lots of people, like someone in here is like, I would like to file a formal complaint as a June baby. So there's all kinds of fun stuff in here. So Myke already is taking the L. Myke is a dip pen diva. Sorry, Myke. February, you're a cocoon cutie. I don't know. I thought you were a cocoon cutie. Yeah. I'm so close to it. But my baby is. You know, she's one in February. Exactly. Perfect. So your baby's first pen will have to be a cocoon then. So that's a big first pen. But we can see what happens.
* Maybe a Cortex Mark 1. March, you're a mild liner magician. That's our friend Rob. I don't know if he's born in March, but he is a mild liner magician. He's already testing other highlighters and going, nope, it's not as good as the mild liner. So, which is just a fact. April is a Pilot G2 OG. I'd feel pretty upset if I was for April, April baby and stuck with the G2. So who knows? April would be, I don't know, maybe a Johto. May is the Mont Blanc mama. That's a big W. Yeah. If you're in May, I'm starting to think, what's the name of the person who runs Sugar Total Studio? Tom. Tom. I think Tom was born in May is what I think is going on here. Yeah. Yeah. That's an elite. That's the S tier right there for May. Then we have June. June's pretty solid. June is the big bitch, which I feel like I can say. No, you can't say that. So this is the first time in pen addict history I think I'm going to have to bleep you. Man. Man, that stinks. Yeah. But I don't know. So June is pretty solid. I'm down with June. Mine's coming up soon and I don't even know what it is. I forgot. All right. July is a brush pen beauty, which I can get down with that. I like my brush pens and you can have fun brush pens. So August. Let's see. Let's see what I am. August. Found pen freak. Yeah. Let's go. Now, come on. This is cyberbullying.
* That's like just I think Tom was maybe Tom has no clue what my birthday is, but I feel like, you know, I'm just going to pretend like he did and he's just like sucking up to me right now with the found pen freak. So we'll we'll we'll give Tom a shout out for that. So September novelty pen nincompoop. Wow. Like I think you got to take the L on that one in September. If you're September, you like you're using like floaty pens and just other like silly stuff. Maybe you're what is your yoinks pen?
* Yikes. Yoinks. I was watching Scooby. That's a Scooby-Doo pen.
* Yoink shaggy. October multi pen meanie. So Tom is Tom is not a multi pen fan, apparently, because the slide for October for multi pen meanie has a picture of the the classic Bic four click and it says you're dumb in any color. Ha ha ha ha. Wow. That's aggressive. That's aggressive. Yeah. Unnecessary. I think Tom is the multi pen meanie. Wow. That was just not nice. Not nice at all. November needlepoint nitpicker. Yeah. I've been there. I've been there like, oh, needlepoints only. Right. Needlepoints only for me. And finally, December. Free pen freeloader. I kind of vibes with December. Like I feel like that's kind of the kind of the one. So, you know, they have all the it's like your your your medical pharmacy swag pens or you're just like logo pens and just generic hotel pens, things like that. So anyway, that was fun. Sorry for the edit, Myke, but I felt like it was it was worth saying just for just for the call out. So censorship comes for us all at some point. Brad. Yes. I am restricting your First Amendment rights. OK, well, we're going to have to talk about that. There's no First Amendment rights on the pen addict. Yes. None here on the pen addict. There's no constitution here. We run free. You know, my apologies, but at least I did it on purpose and it wasn't an accident. Right. Like I just I was just reading. OK, Myke, I was interested in that is a very interesting way to look at it. Like it's good because I did it on purpose. Yeah. I was just reading what it said. Yeah. Yeah. I was I was honoring the source material, Myke. And I think we can respect that. It's the kind of guy you are. Very respectful. All right. The kind of the kind of guy I am is talk about this Mont Blanc Heritage Rouge, a noir baby special edition only because it's just more reminder that the Wes Anderson pen has not come out yet, even though we just talked about that here recently. It's this month, Myke. This month is supposedly Wes Anderson month for for the mini pen to be released. But I do. We talked about the baby when it came out like two years ago. It's so. I just want it so bad. And then this color to the region. I just I want it. This is the one. Brad, but what is it like a billion dollars? Like how much? I don't know, but it's probably like half the price of the Wes Anderson. So I looked up the Wes Anderson like we talked about twenty five hundred dollars MSRP, which is stupid. So this has to be over a thousand. The first the first babies that came out, the white and the black one, I think they were under a thousand dollars, which is beautiful. Yeah. I say that like it's a deal. It is not a deal whatsoever.
* But I am on there. I'm digging the Mont Blanc visual style on their Instagram right now. It is very Mont Blanc. Every post says Mont Blanc. Like just massive.
* Just huge text. But it works, though. It works for them. Did they? I mean, obviously, I know they did, but I don't recall. They changed the logo.
* Right. They changed the word mark. Yeah. The word mark looks different. I mean, it was definitely a long time ago, but it's good. I like it. Obviously, it's focused. It looks like a mountain. Like that's what it's going for. Yeah. It's the A and C part. The end of the word looks drastically different from what it used to be. Yeah. Now that you say that, I didn't I didn't really notice that before. They've done this a long time ago because I'm like scrolling through their Instagram and I can't see any different because every post says it. Yeah. It's hilarious.
* So, yeah, like it's not Mont Blanc is not always like a company we always follow for different things. But here we go, Myke. The Rouge Noir Baby 765.
* It's a deal. That feels like a deal. That feels like a huge deal. I just got 25% off. That's amazing. That's more than I want to spend. But yeah, it's a quarter of quarter of the Wes Anderson. I've spent more on pens. Yeah. Many times. It's a quarter at the Wes Anderson, but 90% the style. Like it's it's almost there. I want that Wes Anderson one though so bad. I feel like there's no way in which it's an amount of money that I would want to pay, but I still just want to see, you know, like what happens if and when that pen ever exists, which I don't think it will. You still you still don't think it will. It was so I went and checked before the show. They're still marketing it.
* One thought. So there's only Myke. This is their copy. Only. Oh, it was done in March. The redesign. It looks like just finding it. Sorry to interrupt you. It was in. Okay.
* It looks like they changed it in March. Okay. So no wonder that we missed it then. So what I was going to say is the Wes Anderson limited edition, only 1969 are going to be made, Myke, at $2,500 a pop. So, you know, there you go. You found it. There you go. Well, I mean, just the marketing on it there. I haven't found it for actual sale yet, but that's all the details. Yeah, I don't want to pay $2,500 to honestly.
* Yeah. All right. I have something, you know, more affordable, even though still relatively expensive, I'm sure. I think I missed this, but I was doing an article for the Panatic members in refill this weekend where I was talking about like brands I like or like, you know, brands like I keep an eye on. And Uni Mitsubishi is one of my favorite companies in the world. And I was browsing through, I was writing this article over on the Japan site. You know, I don't always look at it, but they always have either something in the news section or in like their PR section on like product releases. And there's a Kuro Togo wood mechanical pencil. I don't think we talked about this. No, I've never seen this before. Okay. But this was from March. March. So it made me wonder, it's like, did I mention this? Or maybe it was while you were gone and I didn't do as many. You won't do it as much as much new stuff. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. So like it may have, you may have slipped by. Oh, what a stunning, stunning pen. Oh, I hate it because I love it so much. And I went looking today and obviously they're only on eBay and they're like, it's like a hundred pounds for two of them, like for both of them. Wow. And I don't want to pay that, Brad. So the regular price is around $25. I don't want to pay that. It's so good looking. This is spectacular. Is it real wood? Yeah. They, they don't do these without, without having the, like the real wood. Uh, I can't, I don't see that it's half in English, half in Japanese. I don't have a translated yet to see what type of wood, but, um, it's a forest green barrel and like a slate blue kind of barrel. Those are the two color choices, which they're just perfect. Let me see if I can translate it real quick and see if we have like the type of wood, but it just looks like. Uh, let's see. Yeah. I'm looking to it. Wood and aluminum, wood and aluminum, wood and aluminum all over the place. It's not helpful. Uh, it just says natural, natural wood. Yeah. Uh, for the grip, a tree species characterized by heavy and characteristic black, brown color and beautiful wood grain. Uh, so. But we won't tell you.
* Hardwood of the bee family. Again, this is translated. I don't know. So, um, yeah. Yeah. So we'll have to find out, um, find out this, but what a, what a great looking pencil. So yeah, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on that one day. Hopefully, maybe, maybe not. You never know. I want it. You never know if we can get it. I want it too. I don't want a hundred pounds. It, you know, I don't want it that much. I want to buy it. Like I want, I want to go to a website and just buy it, um, from uni or from a distributor. That's what I would like. It seems like that is an impossibility, especially with anything Kuru Toga anyway. You know, like what was the dive, right? That just. Yeah. It was like $4 billion on eBay. Yeah. You still can't easily get the dive. Like you can find them now, but there's no way I can get this one. Like there's no way I can get this one. I will keep you in my thoughts. When I find one, I will get you one. Thank you. Um, do you have a color preference? I like the green one. That's so good, isn't it? Yeah. I think the green one. It's such an outlier. I think the green one is the way because it's like, I got, I got enough blue pens. Yeah. It looks great, but the wood is just as a good combo. Cause it's like a trick. Cause I'm saying this, like I'm going to, I'll go shopping for you one day because I already have something to send you that someone sent me that you don't know about. So it's pretty cool. I love that. Pretty cool. Oh, we'll, we'll talk about it on the podcast one day, but I haven't really used it yet. Well, we can talk about it in October.
* Okay. Cause I'm being just realistic about when you have something to send me. Fair. It takes so long. And so you may as well just bring it to Memphis now. You know, that was such a shot at me that I, it just went right over my head. Like that was aggressive. But it's not untrue though, Brett. It's not, I did not say it is actually very true. It hurts because it's true. That was factually correct. And a little bit painful to hear. Sometimes it's hard to get your, to get your, your, your misgivings just directly at you. Well, yeah. But like, I only have one thing right now. I'm not going to just send you one thing. So that's why I need to get the Kuro Toga. Right. Then I would be, have the impetus to like actually send something to you. It would be silly to send one. In October. Yeah. In October.
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