Editing The Pen Addict 449/transcript (section)

== Vintage Writing Paper Pad ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' And then the box is sitting where I thought the box was. So I went to get the box and to pack it up, I'd already given it away. And I opened the box to check it before I shipped it, you know, make sure it was like locked down tight and the pin wasn't in there. And then that's when I realized that I was missing several pins. So then I had to go buy one. Luckily, they were still available. I had to go buy one. I actually asked the person. I told the person who won. I was like, look, here's the deal. Like, I can buy you the exact same one or whatever money I'm going to spend. If you want to pick out a different Sailor or whatever, you can do that too because, like, I'm paying for it anyway. It's like, it doesn't matter at this point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, my God.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's so good. Oh, yeah. It was great. Let me tell you. It was awesome.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's so funny. Good day. I hope you've learned a valuable lesson about giveaways.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Locate the products. Yeah. Well, the box was sitting right there. I had no reason to think that the pin wasn't in it, but there you go.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Unbelievable.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. Let's get back on track here. I want to talk about the vintage writing paper pad from the Well Appointed Desk. Anna made this really cool product. And I wanted to give a shout out, even though it's probably sold out as we're recording this. She is working on, you know, making some more, getting some new inventory in. And the reason why I pointed it out is not just because she's one of my very best friends. It's that these are the types of products that I love to see come into existence. So basically, the short version is Anna and her husband, Bob, located this really cool vintage paper. Like it was like a typewriter paper and discovered that, hey, fountain pens work really well on this. So let's make a thing from this stock of paper that we have. And then that's how the, I'm calling it the Well Appointed Desk Pad right now or the Well Appointed Writing Paper. I can't help but do it. And it's these 50 sheets, vintage style, you know, glue bound A5-ish notepads. And like I just want to support people that create cool stuff like this. And I think this is super cool. So I bought some. I'm going to give some away on the blog too. And they're sold out right now. But like, you know, keep an eye on it because this is another cool thing because they won't be around forever. Right. And it's not necessarily purposely, hey, we're making this limited edition thing. And that's what we're doing. It's like, look, we found this old paper. We can only make so much. We can't get more of this paper. This is how we're going to do it. And then it'll eventually be gone. And it's like super fairly priced. It's really, really cool stuff. I'm writing on it as we're talking right now. It feels, again, I need to order you some bank paper so you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, I don't really know what that is, honestly. Yeah, this is what it feels like to me. It's hard to explain. It's basically, it's just a paper that has some texture on it but does not absorb ink like, you know, like a copy paper would, right? You're not getting into the fibers of the paper with the fountain pen ink, which is pretty cool. So, but, you know, it's not going to get like the high shade and sheening of Tomoe River. But it's going to get a lot of good aspects of the ink and it's just really good for fountain pens. So, that's what this is. I'm using it right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it tainted ink well. I like the little lines they printed on them for, you know, to give it that vintage look. It comes with like the little backing card so you can have some format, you know, they're blank pages, right? But she has the cards like the grid and the dot grid card so you can put it behind the page and help you line up your lines if that's a thing for you if you write crookedly. So, yeah, I just think it's a good product and I'm not just saying that because, you know, Anna is one of my friends. I'm saying it because these are the type of products that I love. Like if I was walking into a shop, I would end up with a fistful of these, right, just because they're cool. So, that's my kind of product. So, really, really good job by Anna. And a special shout out to her in our very first interview on the Panatic podcast. We had Myke Rohde from Mr. Sketch Note himself. Anna was on Myke's podcast, Sketch Note Army podcast. So, we'll have that link in the show notes if y'all are interested in hearing about Anna's process in sketch noting work.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's awesome. Does she talk about the new product on the show or is it separate from that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Separate.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. It's worth checking them both out because Anna's the best.

'''Myke Hurley:''' For sure.

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'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't think we have talked about this on the podcast. I think this is a strange thing. And I cannot wait.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because you put this link in the show notes and it says that the title is Drillog is live. D-R-I-L-L-O-G. As if I was supposed to know what these are. And it's a Japanese website with a bunch of, I'm assuming, mechanical pencils of varying madness in design.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, they're not mechanical pencils. Those are dip nibs. What? Does that blow your mind even more?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Why?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because why not? All right. So, when I was writing this in, I was like, so our friend, I first learned about these from Jacob and CY at Tokyo Inklings. And they had talked about them several episodes ago, like a while back. And I brought them up on stream because I wanted to get people's quick take opinions on them. So, I had them on stream, pulled up the website, and I was like, look at these things. Like, look, what is happening here?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because the thing that made me think they were pencils, not only just because they look like them, is their .5, .8 millimeters, it says on them. Right. But now, see, I just looked at the kind of full body designs. But when you look at the first two entries, you can see the dip nib part. And it's kind of genius.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right? Like, this is a highly engineered dip nib for pens. So, like, the tip is more traditional looking. Just like your immediate thought was that looks like a mechanical pencil nib. Because it does. Like, and you normally don't see, you know, you're used to either the glass nib, dip nibs, or the, like, the comic nibs, right? Like, the zebra, like, the steel dip nibs that look like a traditional fountain pen nib. So, the front ends of these look like, like you say, a mechanical pencil. And they have different patterns, different shapes. I'm guessing, I don't know if they hold the ink differently. Or maybe are all the shapes the same. But anyway, I'm fascinated by this. Right? Like, someone decided that, hey, we're going to do this. And they did it. And I'm kind of, like, I'm going to have to get one of these. Like, I'm legit going to get one of these.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Honestly, I would like to try one. But I assume not easy to get my hands on.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I mean, they have a shopping cart. And I haven't tried to, like, do the thing yet where you go in and order it. They're not cheap. You know, it's like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm using it in Safari, too. And it's just all in Japanese.