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== Kickstarter Update ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just wanted to mention something. I was looking for Kickstarter today and I saw an update from the Baron Fig Squire project. They're shipping now. They're shipping on time. And I just wanted to mention this because I thought that it was quite cool that they did it. Um, they had like over 1700, uh, packers, the first pen and they're shipping on time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, uh, that's good. I mean, they, so the one thing that sounds what they did differently than a lot of these, um, other manufacturers that are delayed is they really got their planning on lockdown before they even launched the product as far as, uh, dates and meeting dates and quantities and things like that from their manufacturer. So, um, that's good, good planning on their part and, um, everything executed well. So that, uh, that bodes well. Hopefully it's going to be, uh, uh, as sweet as a pin as it, as it looks in the, uh, in the picture. So I'm, I'm looking forward to getting it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I guess we should have ours relatively soon. They said they're shipping out by backer. We backed real early, right? Mm-hmm. Yep. Because they were on the episode. So.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. Real early. Like, uh, first day probably.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So there we go. So did you get your, your field notes, sweet tooth? It's in. No. Really not yet. Well, how about you, Ana? You got the sweet tooth. I can't, I can't help but call it sweet tooth. Sweet tooth. Yeah. Did you get them?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yes, I did. And I actually, I, I waited and I opened them this morning.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I just did that too. I just opened them this morning myself. So let me, let me hear your, your first thoughts on, on what you think about this edition. Just overall. How?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Initially I was kind of, hmm, okay. Wasn't like, didn't get super excited, but I started writing in the, uh, the red one.

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

'''Ana Reinert:''' And I can't remember what they called this one. Is this a raspberry? Um, but I started writing in it this morning while I was waiting for you to get your computer up. And, uh, um, grabbed a couple of the jelly roll pens. And this bright red paper is so much fun with the opaque gel pens. So if you have a bunch of jelly pens, like I use the, the, uh, opaque white, um, the black and, uh, like a turquoise one. Mm-hmm. And it looks so good. And because the paper is a little bit heavier, it's a 70 pound instead of, I think they were using 60, 65 pound. Mm-hmm. No, no show through at all. So they're kind of fun. And I, I kind of like, I really like blank ones. Mm-hmm. So I don't have a problem with no lines.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you rip, do you rip a page out? Do you rip a page out yet? I have not. So the perf is really strong in a good way. I mean, it sounds like a, a machine gun rattling off when you rip it out, but it's very clean. So it's good. It's super, super strong perf. And I, I chose the blue one to, to write in. Um, and the fountain pens do really, really well on this paper. I noticed the paper's a little bit rougher and that's not a negative. Like there's just more feedback when you write on it than, you know, some other pages, even like their stock, um, 60 pound paper, um, is a little bit smoother, but there is zero bleed feathering, anything like that. And so what surprised me the most about fountain pen inks on there is you could actually see the sheen, which I would not have considered happening on this page. Um, and just like a standard blue inks, I can see it. Um, the red inks don't show up well on the blue, which doesn't surprise me, but I can completely see the sheen across the whole ink. So, um, the way it's drying on this paper is pretty unique. Um, you know, this isn't a notebook I'm going to use daily. Um, it's just kind of a fun to have. I love the foil stamping on the cover. They did a really good job on that. Um, the style and the color and everything looks good. Um, it's just not a super functional notebook for me. It's just not one I'm going to be plowing through all these notebooks, you know, but the, um, um, what do they call it? The practical applications in the back are fantastic because there's some very passive aggressive things in there that I would normally do with like a post-it note. If you had laying on your desk at your office, like if you put on the refrigerator, like don't eat my lunch again, or you park terribly. There's some really hilarious, um, stuff you would use like ripping where you need to rip a sheet of paper out of a small notebook and leave someone a little passive aggressive a note. I'm, I'm definitely pro pro that.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Are they all the same? The practical applications in the red, blue, and yellow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh, I don't know. I only looked at the blue one. So I was just reading the ones that were in the back of the blue one.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. You park like an idiot. Knock loudly. I'm upstairs. Bring wine.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Egg hiding spots. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it's, they, they took into account the, uh, the removable paper aspect of it. I would like, I, you know, I, you know, we always say this about field notes, Myke, and, and we do this all the time. It's like, I'd be okay to see this like in a regular edition, you know, the full, full perforated, um, notebook, because you never get that.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I actually, the colored paper, I wish I had gotten the sweet tooth edition when I started the, um, rock your handwriting challenge, because this paper would have been really fun for that. Um, cause I actually really liked the colored paper.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And I think it does good with the gels. The only thing I have not had good luck with on just in my small testing of what I had at hand was, um, drawing pens, like the plastic tip pens. They don't like this paper very much. Um, it like a micron. Yeah. Yeah. It feels kind of, it makes it feel even more plasticky. Like you can, or waxy almost feeling with it. Um, it felt a little bit different than, and then everything else worked fine. Um, which tip size were you using? Uh, zero one. So very, very fine. Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I was using a zero one too. And it just, um, I think it papers a little bit more absorbent. I'm wondering if maybe like a point, an 0.2 or the 0.5 might work a little bit better or like a Sharpie, Sharpie pen.