Editing The Pen Addict 239/transcript (section)

== Demonstrator Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, you know, like, I look at that. I don't think I could buy one, right? Just because it doesn't really work for me. But there are some times where you want a pen as jewelry.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And this, like, those demonstrator ones would be something like that. Like, I would love to own one of those clear Vanishing Points because I would like the jewelry of it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. That's pretty awesome. Talking about jewelry. Yeah, this next pen I want to talk about is one of the sexiest pens in the world. I'm just going to go out there and say that. The Pelican Suveron M400 in tortoise shell. And I bring this up, number one, because I reviewed it on Monday. But number two, I'm giving it away because it's an awesome pen and someone should have it. So, I wanted to mention that on the show because it's running through the end of the week. Like, they've done tortoise shell special editions for years and years and years. They're just stunning. I mean, I don't know what to say about this pen. I always love seeing them. New, old, anywhere in Pelican's lineup. They're awesome. It's just a fantastic looking pen. And, you know, I thought, you know, I probably won't use this on a daily basis. So, I thought I should give it away to someone who will. So, that's up on the Pen Act blog. We'll have a link in the show notes. And it's pretty amazing, Myke. Pretty amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's a good looker.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, one quick thing on Squarespace. I did something on this giveaway that I've never done before, which is use one of those services that kind of collects the entries. And then I can just allow it to pick someone random. Like there's one called Rafflecopter, which is very, very popular.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Rafflecopter is a fantastic name.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, this one's called Gleam, and I was able to tune it the way I wanted to, to just allow people to enter once and be done with it. But what Squarespace allowed me to do is throw a code block in there, get the embed code from Gleam, click save, and my entry's embedded right there. You know, the giveaway entries form is embedded right there in the blog, which was super simple. So, that was very cool. I was happy with that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The chat room are talking about something right now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, let's jump to this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, we were going to talk about this later in the show. Sean Newton. Everybody knows Sean. If you don't know Sean, Sean is responsible for some of the most beautiful custom-made pens that you will ever see.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He uses great acrylic, great blanks that he gets from places. I don't know if he makes blanks himself, but he turns out these just one of two different things. Either beautiful pens, incredible pens, or like the craziest pens you've ever seen. Right. Right. Right. Sean operates on those two spectrums. They're either incredibly beautiful or they're like, why on earth does this have two nibs? Right. But he does that. Now, he posted something from a good friend of the show, Mr. Jonathan Brooks. It's a pen model that Sean calls the Eastman made with a blank called primary manipulation, which is, I'm going to put a link in the show notes to the picture that he posted. Like, this is one of the most beautiful acrylics I've ever seen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right? Yeah. Did you see this? Yeah. So, Jonathan came up with this some point last year, I think, and actually had trouble naming it. And then he did like a whole thing about naming this material. It's awesome. It looks even better in person. It's like, it's basically everything. It's all the colors. Yeah. All the colors. It looks like melted crayons, which is fantastic. It's so cool. So, you enjoyed this one? I leveled up, man.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've ordered one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nice. I've ordered my first Newton pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. Yeah. That's really cool. This is a fantastic pen. It's just too cool looking.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I basically, I saw it on Instagram. Sean said, like, any questions, email me. I emailed him, like, immediately. I was like, I need one of these. But then he dropped the Sean Newton heartbreak. Yeah. Eight to 12 months.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I was like, no!

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think two years ago when I ordered my Shinobi, that was like six months. So, yeah. It's a long wait, but that's just kind of what you do, you know?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, I paid up front, right? I've paid all the money for him. And now I'm going to forget about it. Yeah. And it's a gift for me in the future.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That's cool. So, did you get this exact model, the Eastman, with the roll stop? I didn't get the roll stop. Yeah. Okay. Cool. I do like the little roll stopper thing, though. But, yeah. I can see.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. But it looks like it has flat edges on it. Or maybe that's just a shine. I'm fine with the... The roll stop was not expensive to add. Yeah. But there was just something about this where I was like, no, I want it just like one thing. Also, it was like, I don't know how to say it. It's like $300. Yeah. Which is... Okay, that's not cheap. Yeah. But it's not crazy. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Like, the Canaleas are going to run you close to four. Yeah. Like, it's the same kind of theory, but with a lot more branding built in. So, it costs more, if that makes sense.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Again, it's a lot of money. I understand that. Yeah. But this is honestly one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Like, for me, like, this is just everything. And I want it. And I couldn't not get it. So, I bought it as a present to myself.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'm tempted on this material, too. Maybe one day. It's really, really cool. So, are you, like, on some kind of different path this year? Like, are you... Do you have, like, a focus? Yeah, I do. Yeah. I... Like, this is, like, a purposeful sort of thing?