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== Expected purchases for the Baltimore pen show ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So, uh, I have a question for you expecting to, do you have any expected purchases for this? Or are you all like you covered from the stuff that you bought recently? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's one of the things with Baltimore. I bought a lot of pens. I bought one pen for me and then I bought a bunch of other pens. So it's like for review and giveaway and it being only three weeks ago, like I'm still like in that zone. The things I didn't buy at Baltimore that are easier for me to buy in Atlanta because I'm driving are ink and paper. So I didn't even consider looking at inks in Baltimore really for myself or for like product reviews. I bought some for giveaway. So I'm going to see what inks are out there. I'm going to see if there's any new paper I need to test out. Like some of the bigger, bulkier stuff that I can just drive home. Um, that is on the list. Nothing in particular. I, in Baltimore, wearing wool was inks were still just such a hot item. I'm going to see like, okay, maybe there's some other wearing wool inks I need to pick out. Those have been very popular right now. Um, to review, I think I only have one sitting here that's kind of queued up for review. As far as pen products, I'm always on the lookout for a pilot decimo. And I am, I keep saying that over and over again because I'm not overly anxious to get one. I'm just looking for like a cool, like non-standard one. And that's really hard to find because pilot, as I mentioned in the Baltimore recap, they're not making any new decimos for release this year in the U S market. It's a very, it's probably one of their lower selling product lineups for some reason in this market, but it's still popular in Japan. So one of these days I might just break down and get a special edition over from Japan, but I'm always looking. There's always some smaller individual sellers there that you might run across something like that for. So that's what Saturday's for is to kind of give me the time to scope that out. So I still have a Scribo Piuma is the Scribo is the brand Piuma is the model to check out. It's a pretty expensive pen, but it comes with a stock extra, extra fine gold nib. And I love the shape and materials of them. I just haven't pulled the trigger online. I could have bought it many times over online. It's kind of a stock edition for them, but I'm kind of holding off. I just haven't really committed. I kind of want to see them in person because you can get them in these neat swirly materials. And a lot of times when you look at the swirl materials online, you never know what you get unless you pick it out yourself. So that's always a good thing to pin for a pin show. It's good. Yeah. I am very tempted by the Leonardo's that just released in the spaghetti resin, you know, that, um, the kind where the, the resins kind of like cut off, it's like almost kind of looks like a checkerboard pattern. So there's one called, uh, anemone, which has some unique colors. It's kind of like purple, orange, and brown. It's like colors. I wouldn't necessarily have put together myself, but that came out really, really good. Like, I don't necessarily need another Leonardo like personally, but that one's at least tempting because they look so good. And I like that, um, what they call the spaghetti resin, the way they, they started making those last year and some of their stock models, like the blue Hawaii and some of the other ones. So now they've made some other resins, um, that have kind of started to pop. And yeah, I, it's, that's one of those determinations, like that. Do I need it? Right. Am I buying this for me? Right. This is in the bigger picture of the pen attic 100. Like if I'm going to get down to 100 pens, like I'm really considering what I buy. And if I buy it, like I probably need to sell one of my other Leonardo's and I only have three, I have three Leonardo's right now. So we'll see. We'll see. So that's the, the context that I'm thinking about. I at least want to check these out and see how they, how they look in person, because I think the material and it is really good. And I'm just in love with the Leonardo shape and style really fits my aesthetic. So yeah, I'm looking for that. So I think that's the extent of the list. I obviously want to see the Lamy Delights safaris. Like I'm going to see them, you know, like I might buy some to give away. Like I don't need any of those for my own personal needs. But like one of the things I do at pen shows is I buy several things for review giveaway and stuff like that. So like Baltimore, what I came home with was 90 or 95% stuff for reviews and giveaways. And then I bought the one pen for myself, right? That's how Baltimore was. And I would expect Atlanta to be the same thing because I'm trying to manage like my own collections, right? Like I really, I'm trying to draw this line of why am I buying all this stuff? Like I want to have a real reason. Like if I'm buying this pen from me in my collection, well, it needs to fit in with what I already have. And is it going to replace something? And that's kind of how I'm thinking about it. Otherwise, am I, is this a good, is this a new product that is worth a new review? Like we review, I don't know, we've reviewed a ton of Leonardo's on the blog. So it's not really a review product for me, right? Is the way I look at it because it's the same pen. It's already something I think is like a 10 out of 10 pen design and comfort. It's just a new material. And there's, I, there's not many words I can spill on just the new material. As far as a review, I don't know that that's worthwhile. So that's, that's how my brain works around like new products and buying things these days is a lot of it's just for blog review and giveaway and deciding if I'm going to buy something specifically to fit into my library of pens that I'm trying to keep it 100 and probably failing hard at.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Keeping it 100. I like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Keep keeping it Hanna.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But you're not doing that yet, are you? I am.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, no, no, but I'm, I'm in the low 100s and I have another batch here to sell. So I'm getting there. I'm getting there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He's getting there. He's getting there. One day we'll do that 100.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We'll do it. We'll do it this year. Like I'm getting, like we'll do it probably this summer. Like I need to have another sale. So once I do this next sale, I'm going to be very ready to have that number solidified. Like, because I have to get under 100, right? Like I can't get to 100 right now because then it's full and that's not the goal. The goal is to have space. So I need it to be like 85, right? So I can go and, Hey, look at this Leonardo anemone, right? Anemone, anemone, anemone, anemone. So yeah, uh, it's, it's good. It's all good stuff. So we will, uh, yeah, I just need to do a little bit. I need to do another round of sales and then have a real, like a real refinement look at the Toyoka craft 100 box and what's in it and see what needs to stay in, make in hit our final form. If you will, if you will.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. Well, I'm very jealous of you and I hope that you'll have a great time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm sure people will ask about you. I will tell them that, uh, you hate them, which is why you didn't want to show up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's very, you know what? That's very fair. Uh, if you want to find Brad, go to the Atlanta pen show, but otherwise go to twitch.tv slash pen addict. We're brashine three times a week. Go to pen addict.com and spoke design.com to check out Brad's writing and products. You can find Brad on mastodon. Social. He is at pen addict. He's a pen addict on Instagram as well. Uh, I am on mic. Social as at I Myke. You can find my podcast here at relay FM like this one, and also my products over at cortex brand.com. Thank you so much to Squarespace for their support of this week's episode, but most of all, thank you for listening until next time. Say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad. Bye.

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