Editing The Pen Addict 407/transcript (section)

== Shopping Withdrawal ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I've been going through a little bit of withdrawal, like shopping withdrawal. Like we didn't get to go to, you know, the Pen Show, Atlanta Pen Show, and there's nothing, you know, on the calendar these days. And I thought I would be able to hold out a little bit longer. And, I mean, right up to this minute, yes, I've held out, but I'm breaking Myke. And the things that Pen Chalet has that interest me, the Leonardo Messenger, which is not quite the material depth of the Memento Zeros and the Furores, but it's a really neat, unique color pen. The price is going to make me get one of these. There's five different colors and 366 of each color for this model. And I'm exasperated that I probably need to go get one of those. And I've already bought one of those. I did for a giveaway. Secondly, the Monte Grappa Monte Grappa fountain pen is on sale. And I actually got an email about this from, yeah, from a listener was talking about, you know, that range of pens, like the Monte Grappa Elmo that I enjoy so much. She's like, well, would you get the Elmo or would you get the Monte Grappa? And with the discount, it's in the same price point. I said I would get the Monte Grappa because of the filling mechanism. It's a great price. It's like, yeah, it's in with the with the coupon. It falls into that category, which is it's a new realm for that. So, yeah, there's in the page just keeps going on and on and on. At the very bottom, Ron has snuck in a little Pelican M205 Star Ruby. He must have his last few ready to roll out. So if you missed out on that one, that one's on there as well. So, yeah, really, really good stuff as usual.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Penchalet.com, P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T.com. Thank you so much to Penchalet for their continued support of this show and RelayFM.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So we have a very brand new, brand spanking new pen to talk about today. We are working once again with our friends at the Canalea Pen Company to talk about their brand new release. So I will say right now that Canalea have sponsored the show in the past. They're sponsoring in the future, but they have not sponsored this episode. But they have provided both me and Brad with their new pen. I've had it for many weeks. Brad's had it for less time, which is a once in a lifetime thing for me to have had a pen before you. I got to see it before you because, yeah, it was only like a week ahead. But it was stupid. Look, Brad, for me, that's amazing. You get everything first, right? I get everything last. That's the way these things tend to go. But Hugh and Carol sent it to me. And what I like about this, they never send us any information, right? We never get any information. The first information we get about the pen is in opening the package. So this pen is called the Kona Cherry. And if you don't know about Canalea pens, all of their designs focus on something from Hawaii. And it's typically an image of some description that makes the pen itself. Now, Kona Cherry is themed after the world famous Kona coffee from Hawaii. Everyone's heard of Kona coffee. And the pen is red because of the cherry of which the bean is in. I think that they made the right move rather than making a fully brown pen, right? To go with red. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That would be a roasted Kona.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So we both have the, what is it? The classic, I think. Classic flush. Classic flush. Flush. I always forget that they have other designs. Because there's only one in my mind. I'm totally stuck on this one. Yeah. Which is classic flush. All of mine are that design. But they do have a bunch of designs. We'll talk about availability of the pen in a minute. Because they're doing some interesting stuff. Because I think this was supposed to be launched alongside of a pen show. But obviously that didn't happen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think this was going to be timed with Chicago. Like Chicago would be coming up in another week or so. So that would be like the time frame. And I think they were going to be at the Chicago pen show. So you want feedback on this pen? I want to know what you think. You want me to go first?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I bought it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I know you did. I saw the email.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is the second Canalea pen that I own. I've owned a third one in the past, but I've sold it. I now own two Canalea pens. So that tells you what I think about this pen. And here's why I purchased this one. And why I didn't purchase. What was the purple one called? I meant to pull this up right before that you have.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I have the purple one. It is called the Aolani.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Aolani. Which is stunning. We helped launch that with an ad on the site. I mean on the podcast. I loved that pen. But what the difference to me in that pen and this pen is the translucency. So the other Canalea pen that I own is the Hanamabe, which has these yellow sections in it that are translucent. They're my favorite Canalea pens are the ones with part solid barrels, part translucent barrels. And the Aolani was essentially all solid. It had this really cool depth to the material, which we both discussed how we like. This one has some of that depth in the material, in the swirls, but then it's broken up with translucency. And I just can't stop looking through the pen. And the way the translucency is done, if you're not looking at it the right way, it looks like a solid piece of material, right? It looks like there shouldn't be translucent materials. Like it's kind of not noticeable. It's subtle, right? Because it's all red. And that's what took me... That's what made me want to purchase this one. Because there's no breakup in the color, right? Yeah, it fits my aesthetic with the translucency in it, right? I don't know. It just stood out to me more. And I'm comparing pens that are nines out of tens with each other, right? But it goes into your personal style. So we actually have a question in the chat that's related to what I want to talk about. I've considered eyedropping this, but I started with the converter before I decided to buy it, right? I didn't want to eyedropper it if I hadn't paid for it. Because I didn't want to have to clean all that up. So you can hardly... I'm having trouble seeing the converter in here with the material. So it's very, very cool. Like you don't see it outstanding.

'''Myke Hurley:''' One of the things about canalea pens, they're all different. I have a translucency, which I'm not kidding you, is the entire body of the pen. Like I have one strip that goes the whole way down. I have prime candidate for eyedropping over here. So like I can see the entire converter through the side of the pen body.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Really? So like I have a ring around horizontally where I can see the entire nib, a 360 degree rotation of the nib.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I do not have that. I can see the feed in the cap, but I can't. And I can see the grip section in the cap.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we'll take some pictures. We hadn't been able to share them before. So we can take some pictures of what we're talking about. But I love this pen. The thing that I always go back to with canalea, and I've said this before, and I'll say it as long as it holds true. The fit and finish of the pen is better than any maker that does this type of work, right? Any small maker that's getting acrylics and turning them into pens, this one feels different than any other pen I own, the canaleas do. Like I could do a blind test. You could put 10 acrylic pens on a table and one of them be canalea. I guarantee I could pick that out of the table. It feels that different, like in a good way.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, they're like made.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They're made so perfectly. They're turned so perfectly, right? Mm-hmm. And yeah, it's unbelievable.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I mean, I love this one. This is now my second canalea that I own that is in the collection. So Hanamabe and now Kona Cherry. And that doesn't mean I dislike any of the other ones. I just haven't, I can't buy them all. So I pick and choose very carefully which pens I own and add to the collection. And I have put up the funds for the Kona Cherry and I'm very, very happy with it. And I think I will eventually eyedropper it. Right now I have the Pen Attic Fire on Fire. It was hard to figure out what ink to go with this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, so I went with an orange. I was thinking about going with a bright green, like the Ackermann number 28, to kind of go with the leaves, like the coffee leaves. But I wanted to see what this looked like with the converter compared to like filling it with a darker ink. Yeah, so I don't know. I mean, I love it. It's great. This is, it's now my pen. So yeah, love it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I just haven't yet bought it. Yeah. Right. I am very much planning to. It's just because I think it was a very bold. And I would say like on paper risky. Move to go solid color, like just one color. Right. Because I think Canalea's most popular pens feature multiple colors. Right. Like that's the thing that they are known for. Right. Like this pen looks like a beach. This pen looks like a volcano. Right. Like these are very like specific designs. So this one looks like a gecko. Right. Like, or this one is like a sunset. So like all the one color reduces their like ability to wow people in that way. But I think from looking at the progression over the last two pens, I think from the Aolani to this one, I think what they've realized is like this kind of new depth like catching process that they seem to have fallen upon with whoever it is that's making these rods for them is adding something new. Right. Right. So like when you pick these up and again, this is just like like any like really good pen like this. It's impossible to photograph like to the point where you can understand it. But you pick it up and turn it around and it catches the light in a way that I've not seen before. And that's what we're talking about with this depth that you look at the pens and they look like it looks like there's like chunks in it. Right. It's very peculiar. And but it makes for like a really like a really stunning finish. It's I mean, it's so good. So good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' See, I see it a little bit differently than you. I think this one fits their lineup more so than the Aolani. And I think the Aolani fits their lineup. It's just that the Aolani is in the group with the Gecko and with the Koala Sunset, all the solid barrel pens, Nui Nalu and Mauna Kea and those pens. And then Kona Cherry fits in with Maui Makai, which has I don't know what their sales rankings are. Maui Makai has to be like number one. That was my first one. Like a 10 out of 10 out of 10. And like the only reason I don't own that one is because it's like really hard to pick out like the perfect one. And also everyone that owns it owns that one. And then Kaha Kai, you know, that's another very, very popular one as well. But I think this one actually fits in with like some of their most popular styles, even though like side by side, they look pretty different, I think. But I think it's a really good addition to the product lineup when you line them all up together. Like this one really fits to me. Where the Aolani is a stunning pin on its own. But does it fit totally with everything else? I don't know. Maybe it does. But regardless, like I said, this is like comparing pens that are like 9 out of 10s and 10 out of 10s with each other. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They're all great. Do you see the links that I put in the chat room? They'll be in the show notes as well. I just took some pictures of my body and pen caps. You can see the translucency of them.