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== Pen Design ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a nib window. What am I talking about? And it has a lovely swan engraved on the top of the cap. It looks like the cap is made of some pelican. Why did I say swan?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have no idea.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Why would that even jump into my mind?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's something I would do. That's my job.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's very peculiar that I would do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It does look like a swan, though. It's not standing up. How are you supposed to know it's a pelican?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, what material is the cap made out of, do you think? Does it say here?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just an acrylic, I'm guessing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I forget acrylic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Very, very nice. Very, very good-looking pen. I'm talking about it so much because I can't stop looking at it, so I'm closing the tab. I know, that's hard.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The price gets me, though. That's steep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, at 50% of the price, I would have bought one already. Yeah. I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I don't know how many they do for their limited editions. I have no idea. I don't know if they even publish that information, but who knows? Great-looking pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Never seen tortoiseshell on a pen before.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I am a fan. Right, should we take our second break of this week's episode? Let's do it. I think that'd be a good idea. I want to welcome back our friends over at Squarespace. They are supporting this week's episode of the Pen Addict Podcast. Squarespace are the only one platform to make it fast and easy to create your own professional website, portfolio, and online store. For a free trial and 10% off, visit squarespace.com and enter the offer code INC at checkout. A better web starts with your website. If you want to be just like Brad and have your very own pen blog, well, you can do that. You don't have to worry about any of the tricky parts. You just go over to squarespace.com and get started with one of their fantastic and beautiful templates. You can very easily build your own pages with their fantastic drag-and-drop page building system. It's super simple to just drag-and-drop elements all around the page, all within your browser. You can see the changes you're making real-time. If you want to add a gallery in, well, you just drag-and-drop a gallery in. If you want to add your Instagram feed in, you just drag-and-drop the block that contains all the information there. You just type in your username and password. It connects with Instagram, and your Instagram pictures will show up in a little gallery. Maybe you want to put some social links at the bottom so people can find your Twitter and your email. You can drag all that in, and you can make your website look exactly as you want it to. Squarespace take care of everything, from web hosting, image hosting, and even podcast hosting, if you want to be the next Panatic podcast. But what if you want a store, like Nock? Well, you can run your store on Squarespace just like Nock do as well. They run their own site and their store all on Squarespace's platform. Every single Squarespace website features Squarespace Commerce built right in, so all you have to do is enable it, and you can set up your own store and start selling physical and digital goods immediately. They integrate with Stripe for payments and loads of awesome services like ShipStation to help you run a fantastic business. Squarespace take away all of the pain from building your own personal or business website. They have fantastic templates that you can choose from. Get started today, and they're going to look good on all devices because they have responsive web design built right in. They have fantastic apps to help you manage your site and stats on the go. They have 24-7 award-winning customer support over live chat and email with teams located in New York City, Dublin, and Ireland. And believe it or not, you can get started right now with plans that start at just $8 a month. This also includes a free domain name if you sign up for a year. So start out with a free trial right now with no credit card required and start building your website today. When you decide to sign up for Squarespace, make sure to use the offer code INK, that's I-N-K, to get 10% off your first purchase and to show your support for The Pen Addict. We'd like to thank Squarespace for their continued support of this show and all of Real AFM. Squarespace, a better web starts with your website.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, so our pen blog of the week is Incofile. It's at Incofile.wordpress.com. We'll put it in the chat, put it in the show notes. And this is Margana, who has been doing this forever. I mean, I think like 2008, I think, when I looked at her blog. She does a really good job. She's a real hardcore fountain pen user, so she's always talking about different inks, different pens, mostly of a fountain pen slant. And she's real active, posts a lot, posts every week, multiple times a week, active on Twitter. She's super nice, and she does a really good job on her blog. And she actually just did a post not too long ago, my short list of favorite fountain pens. And she put out one, two, seven pens. It's five pelicans and two platinums. So I thought that was pretty funny. So she's got a good collection and a great site. So if you have not been checking out Margana's site at incofile.wordpress.com, get on it. Thank you for being awesome, Margana. I haven't talked to her in a while.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Thank you for making up for that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yes. All right. So I put this in, the show notes, thinking that we would finally have a scribble pen moratorium, but it was really too early to go moratorium on it. But I'm getting burnt out on it for sure. And a couple other people have picked up the mantle. We've put in a link in the show notes to where you can go to a site called dropkicker.com. And, whoa. Sorry. Where the person there has kind of latched onto the, I guess, the scribble problems that they've had. And one of the first things that they posted was, the title of the post is Scribble Pen Video More Deceiving Than Originally Thought.