Editing The Pen Addict 110/transcript (section)

== Rotorfaden Tasha McLeider ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Rotorfaden Tasha McLeider.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You have one?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Whoa.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's a surprise. And it was a surprise from Torsten. He sent me an email, said, hey, I want to send you a Rotorfaden Tasha McLeider. I said, no, absolutely not. You're not buying me one. That's really, really nice. But I don't like people to do that for me. I'm just that way. I was like, no, I'm good. Just, you know, you're awesome. I love you. Don't do it. And he's like, no, no, no. He's like, we have like three of them at the house. And there's one of them I'm not using. And I'd like to send it to you as a thanks for, you know, everything you're doing on the blog and on the podcast. I was like, okay, I'm down with that. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mine was sent to me by Christian Hessman.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So we have separate Rotorfaden benefactors.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We do. I'm surprised. So sorry I messed that up, Torsten. I was thinking it was related, but it's not. Because I know Torsten's on app.net too. And he has a site called, I'm going to butcher this, reduziart.tumblr.com. He's got all kinds. He's got an awesome like pen collection. And I've followed him for a while. He does some great photography. But I'm wondering, does yours have a leather outer cover? Exterior leather?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't think it's leather.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I didn't think so either. So the exterior of mine is leather. And the interior, I'm going to call pool table green felt. It's awesome. It looks exactly like a pool table.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have orange felt. And I don't really know what I would call this material, actually.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yours is green on the outside, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And it's like a... I don't know how to describe it. But it's not leather.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I have one now. We're brothers in Rotor Foden. What do you think? And I think I'm going to use it. And I'm going to talk about that a little more as we continue this episode. Because I have an idea. So I like the build quality. I love the size. And he said he included a Rotor Foden notebook in with it that fits it perfectly. And it's got the three clips to where it can fit the three notebooks. And it's got the small pocket. It's got like the three pockets on the front inside cover and the one large pocket on the inside back cover. I don't know what your layout is like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But yeah. And it's got a nice... It's got a heavy-duty elastic binding and a pin loop. So I think it's going to...

'''Myke Hurley:''' See, I have two pin loops. Okay. Because they're all custom made. Gotcha. So you say what you want. And then they put it together for you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I'm really happy with the quality of it. And I'm happy with the layout of it. But... So my concern is using it appropriately. Like, am I going to use a three notebook setup? Because I can't use this with one notebook in it, right? It's too big for that. It needs to be fully populated, in my opinion. That's just me being me. So we're going to talk about how maybe I can populate that in just a minute. Because that just hit me right before we started this podcast. So we'll get to that. But before we get to that, we have a pin blog of the week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Miss Junie Lim from Althaven. I hope you're listening. I don't even know if she listens to the podcast. But she runs a great blog called althaven.com. I've linked to her on Inklings before.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' She's definitely active on Twitter and Instagram. She has amazing photography. Pen and product photography on here. And does some great reviews. And has some really unique products. Products that I don't normally see. Because she's in Singapore. So she has a good pipeline of products to be able to get to locally. Which I found from a lot of other readers and listeners from Singapore. They have a very good and active pin community. So Junie, your site is beautiful. Your photography is amazing. And the sailor that she has. It's called the Sailor ProColor 500. I've never seen before. It's like the top most review on her blog. It looks like a pin right up my alley. So I'm going to have to check this one out. It looks like a steel nib sailor with a clear blue plastic body. So I am all over that. So thank you, Junie, for listening, commenting.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And she was a NotCo supporter. But that didn't have anything to do with it. She did a cool. Well, I discovered the blog. She reviewed the lookout one time. And I was blown away by the photography on the product that she did. So it's very awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like the old look of this site.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's very sharp.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Definitely. It's great. Super job. And you know where it's built, right? Is it really? It's a Squarespace website. I didn't realize that. Junie, the only way I know this is by clicking in the search box. Oh, it says Powered by Squarespace at the bottom. Okay. So good choice, Junie. You made a great choice. Awesome.