Editing The Pen Addict 69/transcript (section)

== Limited Editions ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So one of my my questions that I've had and one and it kind of goes around one of my favorite books that you've ever produced in the day game edition, y'all did a dot paper, did a dot paper and the white the white cover with the with the red with the red print. That's my that's one of my single favorite memo books that y'all have done. And I got I have this question and everyone has had this question. And I bet I got this five or six times when is when is there going to be a dot grid stock field notes edition?

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Yeah, we keep talking. That's yeah, something we talk about. I don't know. It's the problem with that is when we do that, then what do we do with the mix three pack? We can't do that.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Mix four pack. Yeah, we do. It does come up a lot.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Yeah, I don't know. We might break down and do it. We kind of do with with the craft editions. We generally do one big printing and try to time it. So we kind of do one big printing a year. You know, so we kind of a year's worth of stock after that. So it wouldn't be until, you know, it looks like we've you know, our current stock of craft is going to go for, you know, at least a few more months. So probably, you know, when that next big printing comes up, we'll think about it again.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But OK, I don't want to put you in the spot.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, it's definitely something we've talked about. And we've done a lot of a lot of those customs or a lot of the limited editions have had dot grid to those. So there's a lot of dot grids out there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And like you say, you know, a lot of these questions, this is something, you know, you've probably had on the ledger for years. It's like, you know, we've got one of these days we're going to one of these days we're going to do this. Yeah. Yeah. I just know that the dot grid seems to be getting more and more popular. And I've just been really been enjoying those. So then you did the, you know, with the night sky, you actually changed that up even more with the pattern you used there. So it's cool to see you guys doing that and just kind of mixing things up a little bit. I think it keeps it interesting for everybody.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Well, the expedition has dot grid, too, and that's always available. So there's that. That's true. Very true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got stuff in the works and that could happen pretty soon. Cool. Cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Now, one of the additions that I've enjoyed that weren't colors, they weren't color subscription additions, but they're not stock additions, but they came through you guys. Y'all have done like the neon summer additions a couple of times. You did the ice pops one and then you did just, what's the neon summer camp? Was it summer camp? Yeah. Summer camp and ice pop, right. Yeah. So how do y'all decide to just kind of mix that in?

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Because I guess those were, well, those were both for J.Crew for Crew Cuts, which is their kid's store. Okay. I knew those. So they pretty much, yeah, they pretty much spec'd what they wanted. You know, those were kind of a custom job. And then we ended up, generally we wouldn't sell those to the shop, but I think what happened for whatever reason, I think maybe we printed more than they needed. And did I lose you guys again? Nope. We're here. Oh, I'm sorry. I think, you know, I think maybe we overprinted it and, you know, asked them if it was all right if we sold some. And we, yeah, we never sold a whole lot of those out of our shop. That was just sort of something we had a couple of boxes left and we had it in the shop for a while.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Gotcha. That's right. I remember now the ice pops.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Yeah, those were, yeah, those were Crew Cut additions.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Okay. The ice pops did go like straight to J.Crew. I do remember that. And then I saw, I guess I got confused when the summer camp went through, y'all went through the shop. So. Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha. All right. So let me go through some of the reader's questions we've got. We've got a bunch here. It says, oh, I want to know when Brian will create his own limited field notes edition like Draplin did. Call it the Bedell series or something. We want a Brian edition. So does Aaron leave y'all any of the DDC editions around? And do you have any Brian special editions floating around the shop? I really like that orange on orange one Aaron did.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' We, you know, we printed that out of here. He does, he does a few customs himself where he used to, you know, like go go a few or he gets, you know, some stuff printed up or stamps it himself. So he's got a few, like when we went, we were just at that outdoor retailer show and there were a few, we saw a few around there that I'd never even seen before because he had made them up or, you know, or especially, you know, going way back to the first couple of years, he would print stuff on his own up there. But, but yeah, I don't know. Aaron, Aaron's, Aaron's a bigger character than I am. I don't know if I'm, I don't know if I'm ready for my spinoff yet.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' I don't know if I'm ready for, what is it? What was Rota? What is the numbered Bedell edition? Yeah. I don't know. I have, I was, we used to do that, the Lair Tennis on kudal.com, which was sort of a Photoshop designer battle where we'd send files back and forth between two designers. And that's actually how we met Aaron, I think. But I would shoot, we would shoot a video every week to flip the coin to see who went first. And I was always the referee in the videos. So I've, I've actually been recognized on the street as the ref a couple of times,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' which is, which is about all the celebrity I need. Yeah. That was a good series. I enjoyed, I enjoyed, always enjoyed watching those. Those are cool. So that, that was from Sparky from the, the field notes group. And we got a lot of questions from them.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think I saw that on field notes.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' I think he's the only person who wants that. Maybe, maybe. Maybe I'll just make one and send it to him.