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== Canalea Hanuma Bay ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' All right, so we've been teasing it for long enough. Let's talk about the Canalea Hanuma Bay, which is the brand new Canalea pen. It launches today. It's available right now from Canalea Pens, and I believe that they are taking them to the Chicago Pen Show. I'm assuming, provided that there's any left.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That might be a problem. So what happened was, the wonderful folk at Canalea, Hugh and Carol, they were like, we've got this pen coming, and we want to make sure that you see it, so you can, if you want to, can talk about it on the show, if you like it. And we were like, great, send them to Brad, and we'll pick them up in Atlanta, so we can both take a look at them, and then send them back, right? These weren't gifts, these were kind of review units, or whatever, right? Right, right. So they sent over the pens, and took a look in Atlanta. You unboxed yours, and you were like, oh boy, wait until you get here. I mean, that was instant open on arrival. So then I arrive, I open it up, it's in my hotel room in Atlanta, and I immediately email Hugh, and I'm like, Hugh, let's just like, you know, let's make this easy on ourselves. How much do I need to pay you? Because I'm taking this home with me. So we did that, and yeah, this is just a wonderful pen. It was amazing to me that we had these, we were like secret agents, right? We couldn't take them out of our hotel room, because it was sent to us under a veil of secrecy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They were in our room the entire weekend in Atlanta, because we had to share them, you know, with each other, and talk about them, and even any visitors to our room, they were not privy to the, Nope. to the new Canalea hotness, so we did a, we did a real good job, and I just want to make, I want to, I want to reiterate, like I want to be super clear on the disclosure part, like they sent us these pens as loaners, right? Yep. So they sent us four pens, all of the Hanoma Bay materials, two pens in the classic design, which is the one with the little cap edge, and then two pens with the classic flush edge, all four had gold nibs, two were rhodium matching, and two were gold matching, so they matched the nib with the finials on the end, okay? So, from that point on, it's one of those things where I opened the box, where I just giggled, I was like, oh my god, like I'm just like giddy, like with how good this looks, and I'm running it over to the window, to see how the light shines through it, because the colors are amazing, won't you talk about that real quick?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, the colors of this pen is mostly like, there's blue, and there's like a yellow, like a sunset yellow, because that's, you know, again, all the canalea pens, are made based on a photo, from Hawaii, and you can see in this one, that the oranges, are like a sunset, and also, I mean, both mine and yours have this, the oranges, are mostly clear, in the body, which is just a wonderful touch, that there are these like clear, like transparent sections, that run through the body of the pen, and there's a lot of like blue, which contains a lot of glitter in it, right, and there's a bunch of like white, kind of clouds, and it's like, it's just, I don't know how they keep doing it, I mean, but they keep doing it, and they keep topping themselves, like I almost feel bad for them, at this point, because like, every time, I'm like, well come on, come on guys, what you got for me, and they knocked it out of the park, I was actually talking to Jonathan Brooks, about this pen, I said I've seen it, I've seen the new pen, and he was telling me like, this is like a, was really hard for him, to match it, because he knew what he wanted to get, and he wanted to get it right, and let me tell you, he got it dang right, like this, yeah, I'm like blown, I'm just blown away by this, I, within a minute of seeing it, I was like, well I have to buy it, right, like I can't, I can't let this go, this is just, yeah, I love it, the colors are just, they're so special, and it's so much swirling, in this one, like it really is, just a wonderful design,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' all right, so here's what I'm gonna do, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you, where this pen ranks, in the entirety, of their, their offering so far, so when they launched their company, I guess two years ago, they had about eight colors, right, and I knew I was gonna buy one, from the get-go, so, at that point, my choice is, like, two stood out to me, and this is all, this is me, this is my personal taste, so two stood out to me, so the Kohala sunset, which is the all orange, right, oh no, the sunset,

'''Myke Hurley:''' the black, orange, and gray one,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah, it's like, with the orange lava, in the middle, it's like, the floor is lava, right in the middle, so, and Maui Makai, which is the translucent, blue, onto the beach scene, right, yeah,

'''Myke Hurley:''' that's the one I have too, I have the Maui Makai, that was my first one,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' so that was the one, that was like, flying off the shelf, so I went with the Koala sunset, and I've been ecstatic, with it ever since, so I've held off, buying a second one, even though they release, release ones like the Haleakala, which is, it's amazing in its own right, yeah, that was released at DC,

'''Myke Hurley:''' last year, right, or just before that, around that time,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah, yeah, so I've had, you know, kind of like the hankering, to buy another one, but I never have, I kind of didn't want the Maui Makai, since it seemed to be super popular, not that that's ever stopped me before, but I was like, oh, I've seen that one a lot, yeah, Penhipster, right, got to go against the grain, so, you know, I'll get blamed for recency bias, on this, this is, the best pen, on the product page, yeah, without question,

'''Myke Hurley:''' it is, like, it just is, complexity, like, you can see it in the design, like, you can take a look at, kind of, through their history, and you can see, that there are some, that, the Maui Makai, I think was so popular, because it really stood out, a lot, and, they have a couple like this, but that was one where I was like, wow, there is just so much going on, right, and I think that was why it drew people to it,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah, it's that partial translucency, like, it's not full, it's mixed in, it's swirled, it's, you know, it meets an edge of the beach, right, where this one, is kind of that same take, but more swirled throughout the pen, it's, completely out of hand, I love it, so, like Myke, I said, okay, I, I'm gonna buy this one, so, so, they sent us four pens, they're only getting two back, yeah, so, in, the, full disclosure, thing, that we just talked about, Myke and I paid full price, for these pens, we paid $3.95, they gave us each a gold nib, so, we did get a bit of a discount, if you count that, so, I just want y'all to know, where we're coming from, as far as, you know, how we got these pens, you know, our purchases, and things like that, I just thought, you know, I wanna be crystal clear, on these type of things.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We have spent a lot of time, talking about, I mean, I bring, kind of layer up a lot, right, and, I, it is purely because, for me, I, I just adore their products, and, they're such nice people, right, and, yeah, I think it is worth noting, right, that we paid our own money for these, but they gave us the nibs, they were a gift to us, but it was not in exchange for anything.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No,

'''Myke Hurley:''' no, no, not at all. But, you know, we were gonna talk about this pen regardless, so, here we are, but, yeah, I appreciate making it completely clear, because you just should, yep, but, yeah, these were pens that were sent to us, to be review units, and we couldn't let them out of our hands. Yeah. I tell you something that was new to me, I've never seen a Canaleo pen with a clip on it, and they have a clip, you can get a clip on this one, and have they always done that? I don't remember ever seeing a clip.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's options on several of them, there's always been clip options, they have like five shapes, I guess, something like that, they have a, they have a chart on one of the page, but they don't do all the pens, and all the shapes, so, classic and, classic and classic flush, are pretty much, I think everyone gets that, and then I don't know how they decide on the rest, so.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This, this pen is available in all of them, classic, classic flush, the V, the slim, like there's a bunch of different models, and it's, it's mostly, mostly how the cap is shaped, but there are some differences to it, so, you can see it, and they've got some, they've got on their page, they have, on the Hanun Mabay, they have an option of a clip, looks really nice, actually, I think the clip version looks really nice. Yeah, I mean, this pen,