Editing The Pen Addict 96/transcript (section)

== Giveaway ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, the giveaway of epic proportions. So anyone that can count realizes that we're a month away now from episode 100 of this show. Some people said it would never be done. But we've got to that point. And me and Brad have been talking about what can we do for that episode. Do we want to do something special or whatever? And then I can't remember which one of us it was. It was probably Brad because he's the brains of the operation.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Suggested a giveaway. So we've been talking to a bunch of our friends and I won't say anything more right now. But if you are a listener of this show, you're going to basically want to kill for what we're going to be doing on episode 100. And I think we've worked out a way that we're going to do it too. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So we might be teasing it a little bit beforehand, but we're definitely not going to let the cat out of the bag until episode 100. But needless to say, you should definitely be downloading and listening to that show, not just downloading.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We're not even kidding either. It's so big to the point that you could give somebody who doesn't own anything all of this stuff and they will be a pen addict just by design of how much stuff we're going to be giving away. I'm really, really excited. Including as well, for me, I'm going to be contributing a very rare item. Yep. So it's going to be exciting.

'''Andy Wellfle:''' I assume I don't qualify, Brad, since I won that other giveaway. That's right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Andy, I totally forgot about that. Gosh, that was only like two weeks ago. I know. I won the Kaweco AL Sport giveaway on my blog with the rare, even though it's the same odds as any other number, as I am prone to say to all the skeptics. It's the rare number one of 600 and something. He was the first post. I mean, the first comment on the post. I hit the random button and I'll be danged if number one didn't come up out of 600 and something entries. Number one. And I even had to show the proof on that one. I remember that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I remember that now. Because I remember you putting the image in the post to be like, see? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because I never do that because I really don't care. I mean, if anyone questions.

'''Andy Wellfle:''' I was really glad that I didn't just write first on that comment.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. The guy that actually won the groove, he said, oh, now I'm going to be known for that horrible groove pun that I made in my comment. So beware of your comment. If you actually win, I'm going to post it. So, yeah, congratulations. How is your pen doing? It's great.

'''Andy Wellfle:''' I have a few other fountain pens. I probably have three or four other ones. And this one, my wife and I have both been using. And I love it because it's a lot like a pen version of a bullet pencil. Because it just kind of slides right up and fits in your pocket. But it's a really nice little machine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. That's great. That's one of my all-time favorite pens. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I have one last piece of follow-up. This was pointed out to me, to note as a correction, by a listener, Matt, by email. So remember I was talking about my Mont Blanc last week and I mentioned it was the Mozart. I then started looking around for it and realized it wasn't a Mozart. And I put the link in the show notes to last week's episode, the model that I have. I'm going to call it the Meisterstruck. I'm going to say it like that. Classique.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I know I said that wrong, but it looked interesting enough for me to try and say it in that way. I found that and put it in the notes, but I didn't correct myself on the show. So thank you for Matt for helping clarify that in case people were interested. And I put it back in the show notes again this week. And I'm like 90% sure it's the same pen as the one that I have. Although this did have a composer on the box.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I don't know if it was Mozart or not, but I believe it was because it also came with a CD from that composer. I believe it was Mozart. So I don't really know what the link is.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Interesting. Yeah. Well, Matt, Matt's an interesting guy. He lives in Japan and works at a pen shop. I think he works at Atoya in Japan, which is just like an epically large pen store. And he reaches out from time to time with all kinds of cool stuff. We've talked sailor pens before. So he's an interesting dude from just the perspective that he's coming from with pens and things like that. So that's pretty awesome. Thanks, Matt.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Awesome stuff. So shall we talk about Squarespace and then move on into pencil talk?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Let's do it.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thank you, Squarespace.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, go ahead, Andy. I want to hear this.

'''Andy Wellfle:''' Speaking of Squarespace, I bought a Baron Fig notebook today. They went on sale to the public because I missed the Kickstarter. And they have a Squarespace blog and I was using the commerce checkout and that is a smooth experience. I tweeted earlier, I was like, wow, this is one of the best e-commerce checkout experiences I've had. So I looked in it with Squarespace.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's actually very good. Yeah. It's genuinely very good. Yeah. As Brad knows, we spoke.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I'm ready to turn ours on just to see exactly how smooth it is. But just looking at the setup piece and all of it, you know, on the back end that we haven't turned up live yet. It's just, I mean, it just works, right? I mean, it's just, it's very smooth, very simple, not a lot of fluff. You know, you can go in, make your purchases and get it done. So that's awesome. I look forward to it. All right. So we got the quick note on the pen blog of the week. I wanted to mention this. You would think I would come up with a pencil blog, you know, for our pencil topic today. But I purposely didn't. I did just do a Blystift a couple of weeks ago. It is a great blog. So that's a great pencil related blog. But I wanted to mention the pessimistic pedant, which no one may be familiar with unless you're really paying attention. Because this is a gentleman named Davey, whose blog was called Just Davey B. Or Davey B.'s blog or something. I don't know. It was something very simple. He changed the name of it. So I wanted to point that out because I've always enjoyed reading his posts. Because he doesn't necessarily do reviews. But he has so many pens and inks. And he has this whole database type system that he rotates through. So every time a pen and an ink changes, he posts it on the blog with a picture of the pen and a writing sample of the ink. And it's all – like every post is like this. And he's got – I don't know. The last time he showed his collection picture was around 80 or 90 fountain pens. And he literally rotates through everything. So it's cool to watch this blog and see all the great pens that he has and a lot of the ink samples that he uses. Because the way he sets up his database, he tries not to duplicate inks and pens and things like that. He's got some posts where he talks about how he does it. So check that out because if you're a fan of Just Davey B.'s blog, it has changed the URL. And we will have it in the show notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Andy. Yes, sir. How long has Woodclench been around? Just the – you've been – it's been a while, I know. So from writing about pencils, how long has that been around?

'''Andy Wellfle:''' Yeah. Well, I actually started with pencil things, which used to be a – actually, they're still around. It's changed hands, I think. But it's a seller of pencils and erasers and things that go with pencils. And I actually bought a sampler pack of pencils from there back in 2007. And I reviewed it and I put it on my personal blog. And then I emailed the proprietor at the time and I was like, hey, this is – these are really cool. Here's my – here's the review I put on my blog. And he was like, hey, this is awesome. Do you want to review products for our blog? I was like, heck yeah. So I started blogging for pencil things for a while. And that went through some transitions. They kind of phased out the blog and he – and that proprietor left. So I decided I just kind of wanted to go independent, if you will, and I started Woodclinched, which, of course, Woodclinched is the name of the process by which you sandwiched like the wood planks together to form a pencil over the core. And that was an Eberhard Faber and the later Faber-Castell, like a trademark they put on the side of the pencil barrel.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think you mean Faber-Castell? Yes, Faber-Castell.

'''Andy Wellfle:''' I was just listening to that last night and I have to talk about this at some point so I can talk about Faber-Castell.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I got emails that said, hey, you know what? I say it the same way. Faber-Castell, suck it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, I'm just kidding.

'''Andy Wellfle:''' So yeah, I started Woodclinched. And from there, I just kind of kept going. I've been through some dry periods, changing jobs and doing stuff where I just couldn't get into it. But lately, I've been trying to keep pretty regular on it. And I actually, that led me to meeting Charles Berelsheimer, who owns pencils.com. And I worked there for a little bit, kind of at the beginning when they started selling the Palomino Blackwings, which we'll talk about later. But that was a really fun experience. And Charles is a really great guy. But I'm not there anymore, but I'm still doing Woodclinched.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you do anything else professionally of pencils in the moment or have you moved on to a different field?

'''Andy Wellfle:''' I work at a web development company, so I do a lot of writing and content strategy and sketching things out a lot. So I use pencils professionally, but I don't do anything for pay involving pencils specifically.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Andy Wellfle:''' Yeah.