Editing The Pen Addict 451/transcript (section)

== Letter Writing Campaign ==


'''Myke:''' I generally don't like that kind of stuff, like myself. Like, you know, people taking, like, trying to bend companies to their will on social media and stuff. It's like, you've just made somebody's day who's handling a social media account bad. You know, like, some intern, their day was just ruined because everyone started tweeting at someone.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, and let's be perfectly clear, these companies do not know who we are. Like, Kaweco does, because I've talked with them, but, like, Lamy and Pilot do not have a clue who we are, nor would they care that there is a campaign to get me an orange Pilot Custom 912. The distributors do know who we are, and they will just let me know when they're mad at me for saying that their pins cost too much, but that's okay. Like, that's part of the deal. Like, we all have to deal with that. But, yeah, it's, we're, a lot of writing campaign for the Purple Lamy 2000 or the Orange Pilot's not going to happen. I would love to see an M90 resurrection, except we already had one. It should just

'''Myke:''' be a product.

'''Brad:''' It should just, yeah, I, you're preaching in the choir on this one. We could yell about this for an entire episode. One thing I will say, our Windlil, I think Kaweco is going to do a sport piston filler. I think that was on the roadmap about a year ago that they'd mentioned that they're going to try that again, because they used to have those in the 30s and 40s, and I have a couple of them here. They're awesome. I think they're going to try to resurrect that idea. I haven't seen or heard of anything in probably over a year on that, but I think that's at least an attempt by them. You're going to see that before I think we get a wider availability of some of the other things you're looking for. There you go.

'''Myke:''' All right. Marty asks, in your opinion, what is the best off-the-shelf spiral-bound notebook that you can get at a Staples or Office Depot? I'm looking for an everyday notebook for work that is not too costly, work will cover the cost, but can handle fountain pen ink and roller balls and that kind of stuff.

'''Brad:''' I don't really have one right now. The Black and Red, I think, is, I don't know if that's a specific store brand that Staples exactly. One of the store brands is called Black and Red and I think they make a spiral-bound. They used to make like a hard-bound.

'''Myke:''' Oh, I used to see those at the bank. Yeah. We just had cabinets full of those.

'''Brad:''' So it's definitely one of the suppliers. Those are fountain pen friendly. If you can find it in spiral-bound, I won't swear to them having that because I haven't looked at this category in a long time. There hasn't been any standouts that I'm aware of currently. So if anyone right now has some off-the-shelf spiral-bounds that you're using that are fountain pen friendly, that's the challenge to get from Staples, Office Depot, outside of Black and Red. Any of the ARC stuff that's built for the disk-bound systems, I don't know if they have morphed that ARC lineup into a spiral-bound outside of the disk-bound.

'''Myke:''' You're super internet disk-bound now, aren't you? I was reading in your newsletter about you pulling pages out of old notebooks, you're just going to punch them and put them in the William Hanna.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, I have a really defined system now, like that is my work notebook, right? And then that work notebook also has to have note pages, just like the back of your theme system journal has note pages, because sometimes other stuff has to go there, and that's what I use for that. And you're just

'''Myke:''' putting all kinds of random paper in there now.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, yeah. Like, it's like the notebook I have open as I'm doing this show with you right now. So, yeah, like I'm all in on that. It's, like, we talk about things

'''Myke:''' that stick. I look forward so much to being able to actually see this thing of yours one day.

'''Brad:''' It's not impressive. I just want to get a sense of it. No, I mean that in, like, the nicest way possible. It's a killer product that does its job extremely well, and I've been able to, it has stuck with me. Like, that's when we know, like, a product's good when you try to go away from it and you return to it because you miss using it because it works so well. That's what that is for me. So, it's because of the calendar layout, the task list layout. I have exactly what I want, and then I can just fill the rest of the notebook with all kinds of cool paper. So, yeah. So, you'll see some from some of my friends that are, like, really, really crazy looking. Mine is very, very normal, normal-ish looking. You'll be like, huh, yeah, that's a notebook. Cool. But it just works super well for me.

'''Myke:''' All right, and Myke Wiles asks, endless home improvement projects have got me wondering, what kinds of pencils do you like to use when marking on walls?

'''Brad:''' I feel like you should probably ask my kids this because it would just be some random markings on the wall. I am not home improvement guy. My wife will tell you that. And I would almost never go with carpenter pencils because I just think they're too big for markings. The only thing I'll use for markings these days is for picture hanging or anything like wall hangings. Those get pencil marks. It's honestly any pencil. I would always use a mechanical

'''Myke:''' pencil for this because mechanical pencil makes the smallest mark and that's what I want. I don't want to leave a big mark on the wall.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, so I don't have a specific, I don't have a wall marking pencil. It's probably going to be the first mechanical pencil I will pick up off my desk, which there's only a few. It's like a Rotering 600 and a spoke model for like that's it. It's going to be one of those two. Even more so than like a wooden pencil, which I have, I'm staring at like 30 of them right now on my desk. I'm still probably going to grab a mechanical pencil for that task, especially if a ruler is involved. I'm going to go with the mechanical pencil as well because the pipe managing up against the ruler will not affect the graphite as much.

'''Myke:''' All right, if you would like to send in a question for us to answer on the show, just send out a tweet with a hashtag ask TPA or you can use question mark ask TPA in the RelayFM members discord. I'd like to thank our sponsors for this week's episode, Squarespace and Uni. If you want to find Brad online, you can go to penaddict.com, go to spokedesign.com. Yep. You want to keep locked to there, right? What are the best social media destinations for the spoke fountain pen launch?

'''Brad:''' It's all spoke design, everything. So Instagram, Twitter, probably Instagram is the best. That's the most active.

'''Myke:''' Yeah, of course. It makes the most sense, right? All right, I'll put a link to that in the chat. It's a very

'''Brad:''' good looking Instagram page. Of course it is.

'''Myke:''' Of course it is. Yeah, actually, this is aesthetically pleasing. It is. Yeah.

'''Brad:''' Like the style of the spoke aesthetic that Brian came up with really is really great. That's all Brian. I want to give him full credit. Yeah, this is good.

'''Myke:''' Brian's better than you. Oh, no doubt.

'''Brad:''' Like, yeah, I'm just a pretty face, Myke. Yeah, you really are. He does all the work. He really are. Brian is the brains behind this operation. Let me tell you that right now.

'''Myke:''' So keep your eye on that. You can find Brad. He's at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M on Twitter and penaddict on Instagram. You can also find Brad streaming live on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. Eastern over at twitch.tv slash penaddict. I am iMike,

'''Myke:''' streaming this Friday at mike.live at 10.30 Eastern time. 10.30 a.m. Eastern time at mike.live this week. Thanks so much for listening to this week's episode of The Pen Addict. Until next time, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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