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* I have to stop being hyperbolic about the great deals that they offer. But this one is really an outlier recently. It's got so much new stuff that I can't even, we're not going to be able to get to all of it because it starts with ink, which I'm always, I'm always interested to see what inks they put up for sale on this page at a discount. There are some really cool Visconti inks, some Narwhal inks. One of the Colorverse ink sets, which you have to scroll pretty far down, is the Trailblazer in Space sets, which is like one of the two, the one, the big bottle, large bottle sets. And these are like the wild colors that were very, very popular. They're, they're crazy cool. And they're on sale. One of my all time favorite products has never appeared on this list. In fact, I'm not going to lie. I didn't know they carried it. The Caran d'Ache Fix Pencil. Y'all have heard me talk about this product for years. Caran d'Ache has not really leaned into this much recently. I will call them out for that, but they've made some cool designs in the past, but you can get the stock version. They have a two millimeter. It's a, it's a clutch pencil basically, but it's one of my favorite products out on the market. They have a two millimeter version and a three millimeter version. Those are the core sizes. I'm a two millimeter fan and they're, you rarely get a CDA stuff on sale. So getting the clutch pencil and either the two or the three millimeter is pretty cool. Then on top of that, they have the Lamy Pure fountain pen, which is a nice smaller barrel, aluminum barrel, um, fountain pen. It's kind of in between like a safari and a studio. Like if you combine those a little bit, it's kind of got a aluminum barrel and then like a black Ridge grip section with the traditional Lamy steel nib. Then they have a bunch of Narwhal, uh, some of their, uh, special editions are a really, really good price. So the rhinoceros, the, uh, forsythia, the gradient Arushi. Um, and then I, I'm not even, I, I haven't made it to the end yet, Myke. So I'm gonna have to let y'all go figure out what else is on here because it's unbelievable. Oh, there's man. Okay. Nevermind. Y'all go look. It's a good list.
* Pensula.com slash pen addict is where you can go to find that list. Our thanks to Pen Chalet for their continued support of this show and Relay FM. All right, Myke, we have our shout out of the week. Shout out of the week. The Locovore NYC. So some of you may have heard of this, but you may not have. But if you're following the, uh, the travels of our friend, Caroline Weaver, formerly of CW Pencil Enterprise in New York, they have been, um, you know, they started working on a newsletter after the shop closed and they transitioned over to the Locovore guide, which was a great, you know, NYC focused, um, shopping guide, you know, shopping events, you know, all the cool stuff in and around town. And like I've said it before in Caroline, I trust. So if there's anyone, I don't know who else you could imagine giving you tips about their hometown, especially one as big as NYC. And now Caroline has opened up a physical shop. So the Locovore variety store, you can now go visit and find a lot of these products that she talks about, um, including a couple of sneaky, sneaky stationery items in there. So she's, she's never going to give up the pencils. I'm pretty sure. Um, so go say hi to Caroline, go follow the Locovore, go subscribe to the newsletter. Uh, she's the best and y'all should go check out all of her work. And, uh, yeah, if you're in NYC, definitely give them a visit. Yeah. I'm very happy to see Caroline back in the retail business. Yep. Yeah. She is, uh, extremely talented and, uh, you can just tell, like you go look at this as like, Oh, this person has it. Yeah. Yeah. This is what she does. This is, this is in Caroline's DNA and it, and it looks, uh, it looks super. So, uh, good luck and congratulations, Caroline. And, you know, maybe when I'm in NYC, I don't know what kind of time I'm going to have, but, uh, might have to try to make a, make a run over and see what I can find over at the Locovore. So I am not done with the, uh, madness at the pen addict shop. I don't have these products live yet because I really didn't consider the podcast schedule when I thought about this, but it was really more of, Hey, I need to get all these products in, but I need to get them, you know, product photography, product listings, all the backend stuff. And I had to make sure everything arrived safe and sound, but I wanted to get them out in a similar timeframe as the retro 51 and the Ebbets field flannel hat. And first up is, uh, my own model or my own pattern of the Rickshaw Sinclair model R. So you'll be able to see these probably by the time you get the podcast in your feed at penaddict.com slash shop. They should be live, uh, Wednesday afternoon, U S Eastern time. Um, so this is an orange sailcloth with a white grid, like a four millimeter white grid. It looks amazing. Um, it's very orange, very pen, pen addict, and it has a gray plush interior and the three pen slots on one side and one notebook slot on the opposite side and black zippers. And it's, it's a really, really cool look. I've shared it on my Instagram before because I got the prototype in, um, I can probably find a link to put in the show notes for the Sinclair model R that is going live. Um, I'm also doing my first collaboration with Heinz Penco. Um, so I'm calling this pen the break of dawn because of the color scheme. It's a very, I don't consider it necessarily rainbow color scheme, but it is kind of an all the colors color scheme. I think the material was based off a, uh, starting at resins called spring mist. So it's basically like a morning rainbowy do all the colors type of pen. And the most important thing about this pen is this is a small pen. So they, um, I, I didn't have a definitive, uh, idea on what fountain pen I wanted to do this year. But when I went to the Atlanta pen show and saw Jim and Francisco and Elise, they had a model called the Toschen Stift. And it is a pocket pen that's German for pocket pen. Yes. Uh, thank you. Um, so it's a pocket pen size. It's a little bit bigger than like a Kaweco sport. And I'll have some comparison pictures when this product goes live on the shop this afternoon, but it's small pen, uh, killer material. You can eye dropper it. I've eye droppered mine. It has a purple electroplated steel nib. It looks killer. Like I am very happy with how this, uh, came out. So it'll take, you know, your short international cartridges or the mini converter. It'll ship with the mini converter. It also ships with a Rickshaw single pen sleeve, uh, which is super cool. And it features like the, uh, the purple nib color that we did. And, uh, it came out, it came out great. So Heinz did a bang up job on this pen. I can't wait for everyone to see it. And I'll have a bunch of nib, um, size options all the way. Extra fine to 1.5 millimeter stub. And oddly enough, they're doing a double broad now. So I got a few of those as well. So people like the small pens with the big nibs, uh, you know, you, you've come to the right place. So we're going to get them all out there. I think everyone, I think people are going to like this pen, the material, you know, everyone likes the bright swirly acrylics and like they nailed this one and I love it. And, um, yeah, like I'm already using mine. I've, uh, I dropped it with Robert Oster fire on fire, which Myke, that leads me to an experimental release. I don't think I've really done this before on the Panatic shop. So I've made Robert Oster fire on fire for years. So it's the orange ink collaboration. I've done with Robert Oster, uh, inks out of Australia.