Editing The Pen Addict 349/transcript (section)

== Mechanical Pencil Topic ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Luke AAR wants to know, what kept the spoke mechanical pencil out of your top five pens list?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Time. Like I very rarely, you know, on occasion, I'll just drop them in immediately. But it was, I got it about a month or two after the top five list came out. So I'm not just going to up and jam it in there. I can assure you it will be in there next time. It probably won't be number one because of the cost.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is in the mechanical pencil category, I assume.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But in, you know, the Rotring 600, it's number one and it's a $33 pen pencil. So, but, um, actually that list could probably use a little further updating this year. Cause I've used some more mechanical pencils. Like I'm probably going to have to put the Pentel Sharp Carry in there ahead of like the Sebra Delgard. So the Sharp Carry is a pencil that I love that doesn't get enough respect. And I talk about it every, any opportunity I can. Um, the spoke pencil, um, I don't know if it, does it go in there? Does it goes in the machine category? You know, it's a little bit of an outlier because it uses the Pentel Sharp barrel, but it's such an advanced barrel, you know, maybe it goes in there. Um, so yeah, I, I've been, uh, dabbling more in the mechanical pencils as I've been going through my, my frustrating mechanical pencil lead test. I want, I want a magic, uh, graphite stick in one of these pencils, Myke, and I haven't found it yet. So, uh, yeah, it's, um, it's a good list. I love mechanical pencils. That's a long time fascination of mine, especially in drafting style pencils, which as you'll probably

'''Myke Hurley:''' see in this list, it's dominated by, you know, talking about that, actually, I saw on Instagram, uh, that the CW pencil box subscription is back available again. Yeah. Uh, because I remember the last time we spoke about it, they were like super, super sold out. Um, yeah, it's available again. So if that's something that you're interested in, I'll put a link in the show notes, just, just in case people missed it, because I know we had a lot of pen out listeners that really

'''Brad Dowdy:''' wanted to get in on that and couldn't, but it looks like it's available again. Yeah. I got in on day one. And my latest box arrived yesterday or two days ago, and I have not opened it yet because Myke, I'm getting on the Twitch machine this week and we're going to open it up. So look for a Twitch stream tomorrow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Twitch.tv slash penaddict, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. We'll probably start a late morning lunchtime stream or early afternoon. So I'll send out details tomorrow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know you can literally just unbox things and people would just tune in forever, right? No doubt. That's the real money right there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. No, no doubt. Like, I save the stuff that I get and just try to talk about it. Like, I'm going to bring some of the inks that I have for samples from the pen show and look at all that stuff. So there's just endless things to talk about on Twitch.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Kitchen Penguin asks, pen shows, they're not like fan conventions or professional conventions or even craft shows. So I'm not sure if it would be bad etiquette or people would find it weird if I brought homemade treats to share. Can you help?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I instantly responded to this question when it came in on Twitter because I wanted to make sure there was time for Kitchen Penguin to know that it is more than acceptable to bring in homemade treats to share. In fact, it's a running joke with me and Lisa Van S. Because when we first started doing pen shows together, people would bring me specifically food and treats and candies and cookies and not her. So she would get so mad at me. And I'd get like three things in an hour. I was like, Lisa, do you want any? Do you want any of this? And she'd just give me like this, you know, eat dirt look. So it's funny. Oh, we appreciate this so much. And I'm glad I replied to Kitchen Penguin because she gave me the big time hookup at the show, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, yeah?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I, oh yeah. I got scones. I got cookies. I got all kinds of stuff. She is actually, I sent you the monkey brains picture. Oh, yeah. Yeah. T-shirt. She's who hooked us up with some amazing food. And if you see a bunch, if you see a bunch of cookies and food on the tables and the pen shows after dark stuff, that was her too. So she really hooked everybody up. So there's a lot of great bakers and on the pen show circuit. So we're, we're very spoiled by all the lovely gifts that everyone brings us, especially food is always, always a pleasing sight.