Editing The Pen Addict 261/transcript (section)

== Bolt Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So this one's probably more your speed. The new shown design pen that I use all the time. This is Ian's added a clip to it. You're just at this point, you're bullying me. Well, so what I did last week is I found a backpack, which we're going to talk about in a minute. I said, well, I haven't looked around Kickstarter for a while. So let me browse. And I knew Ian's pen was out there and I hadn't backed it yet. I need to go back that. I said, well, that's two projects in. And then this Roke pen, whatever the new one's called now. I was like, well, that came up. I'm going to back that. And then I said, well, let me just search for pens. And then I just started down this rabbit hole. And five projects later, I have all these Kickstarter links. So I'm not trying to tempt you into anything. Well, no.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm just saying because you know that I don't like pens that have the huge step on them. Right? Yeah. You know this. So now you're like, oh, here's another one for you. I'll tell you something I do like about this pen. There's a little gif about how you unscrew the cap at the end of it. Right? So you can get to the refill and you do it with the clip. I think that's really cool. That's a nice design feature. Yeah. So these pens, the shown design pens, I can see that these are really nicely made. And with the cap on them, I think they're beautiful. I just don't like the heavy steps, step down from the body to the grip. It's just something that I personally don't like. But again, I know that you like these pens. And I mean, I can appreciate this more than that tactical thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. This is my EDC pen when I leave the house and go to knock or go to a ball game or something like that. This is the pen that I throw in my pocket.

'''Myke Hurley:''' With an EDC style pen, it would be something like this. So it hasn't got armor or like 18 millimeters grip section for thick fingers. Right. It's nice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So this is a really, really good job. And this one's already way good to the funding level where the other pen is going to take a while. Yeah. He's done almost. Yeah. He'll do. So six days left. He'll do probably like 50K on this pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' With a $1,000 goal. I think he may have like underestimated he made that low.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So this next one is a huge reach for me. And this is probably like what's Kickstarters for, even though we've all been kind of, we've all been simultaneously spoiled and ticked off at Kickstarter for different projects. You know, some projects go well. Some do not. The Apollo pen never finished as far as I know. So there's definitely been some bad ones. This is one I didn't know anything about. And it's already ended. So I feel bad even talking about it. But it was simply called Cracked Ice Fountain Pens. And this is this guy, Myke Allen. He's somewhere like in the Carolinas, which makes me think, did he get Brooks material? But he had some really pretty materials in it. And it's a smaller compact pen. I like the grip section.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He's a really blue nebula one. That's stunning.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I almost bought that one. But I backed for the one below it called Rubies and Violets.

'''Myke Hurley:''' She would have told me about this. This is a problem we have in the week off. I would have bought the blue nebula one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And yeah, I think I backed it when there was only like a few hours left. It was just a matter of luck that I stumbled onto it. And I think it ended that day. And it was already funded. So I knew I'd get it. And my friend Mark Backus said that he had used one of his pens before. And he liked it. So I was like, yeah, OK. This is a no-brainer. It's kind of like $140. I figure it's probably about the size of an Edison Perlette.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It reminds me of the Edison pens, to be honest. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Phil in the chat room saying these are standard production acrylics, which these are great. And the colors I haven't seen before. So these are really cool. So yeah, I'm going to. Yeah, this is just like on a whim. I was in the Kickstarter. I had my Kickstarter mojo going. And I kept going. I even went with the new Foldio, which is my light box that everyone always asks me about. So I've backed the Foldio 1 and the Foldio 2 on Kickstarter. And I didn't even know they had to release the Foldio 3, which they keep getting bigger every time. And it's such a good product. By the time they get to 10, they'll have to deliver it to you on a truck. Yeah. And it'll be like a full body scanner. Yeah. I think by that point.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I've seen these set up. I think I saw one of these set up in a shop, right? In the Nox shop. You have one of these. No, no, no, no.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We just have a DIY one in there. But this one might. Now that you say that, this might be good size for the shop because the Foldio 2 is really good for the house. This one might be good for the shop. So I might bring it there. But I just backed them because I like them as a company. And everything they've made so far has worked out really, really well. And definitely up my photography game from a light box perspective. So I like their stuff. Yeah. And they do that little spinning plate thing too, right? Yeah. I never ordered that thing because I'm not photographing watches or jewelry or anything like that. I didn't think I needed the spinner. That would look great for pens. I guess it would. But I don't know. And product shots. I didn't order it. Maybe I should go add that on. I think you should add it on.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Honestly, I'd take you up a gear. Come on. What's wrong with you? You got to up your game, Brad. You got to keep pushing.