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'''Myke Hurley:''' So it's funny how this next topic actually ties into the previous topic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, especially in design. The Kaweco grip, the Apple Pencil grip, it appears that it is going to be making its way to the U.S. soon, right? This is something that you sent to me. You sent me an image. Where did this come from?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, I'm on their Kaweco's PR mailing list. You know, I'm sure a bunch of people are. Actually, I know a bunch of people are because they forget to BCC everyone sometimes. So that's cool. They sent out this most recent one and put an availability date on that, which I'm guessing is the European availability date, which I think was April. And that means that they're coming to main retailers around the world probably shortly after that. So I would look for these late spring, early summer. They're going to be available.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is so hard to buy right now. I've just gone to Most Wanted Pens. Delivery time, 80 workdays. Wow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm going to start putting my things in workdays.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Now, you know, so that's on the black and silver. On the gold is one to four days. And the rose gold is 80. So if you want one soon, you know, the rose gold, the actual gold one is the one you want. They've got that in stock. Everything else is heavily backordered.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, yeah, this is going to be we've talked about this from the minute we saw this. If this ever becomes wide release, it's going to do really well outside of our community. Right. I mean, this is a big accessory item for Apple and it's so well done. It's going to fit right in. So I got to try yours in Atlanta. I got to see one in the Arkansas Pen Show. I'm definitely picking one of these up. I don't know that I'm going to use it constantly. I like the thinness of the Apple Pencil, which goes back to the Y Studio stuff. When I'm using my Apple Pencil, it's generally smaller writing. And there's definitely a correlation between wide barrels and wide writing and small barrels and small writing. So we'll see. I'll get one to try. But at least they rounded the grip right. Hex barrel knurled round grip. So that's the way you do it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I'm a big fan. I really like it. I have two now. I have one on each of my Apple Pencils. Because it was a thing that I liked so much that I wanted to keep, right? Like I liked it a lot. So I wanted to keep it on there. And that meant that I would want it on both. Because I don't want to be... I mean, the reason I have two Apple Pencils is so I don't have to keep swapping around between my two iPads. Like it's just never an issue. There's always one attached. I'm never going to forget it. So I decided to just go ahead and get it. And I also got it in just before the availability changed horrifically. And I'm not going to say it's my fault that the availability changed. But I'm also going to say that it was fine to get. And then I spoke about it on a couple of my shows. And then like a week later, they were completely sold out everywhere. I'm just... I'm not going to say I had anything to do with it, Kaweco. But like you never know, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Never know. Never know. But I think this is one of those things where I will get and I will end up going back and forth in the beginning. Then it'll end up sticking like full time on my pencil. Plus, I tend to lose my Apple Pencil.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it took me some time as well to like just get used to having it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I lose my Apple Pencil. I think I lost my one for like five days like recently. And I finally found... Remembered where it was. So I think being this larger size will help it not, you know, disappear on me as randomly as it currently does. Because I do tend to lose my Apple Pencil because I don't hook it to my case like you do.