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'''Brad Dowdy:''' i need you to talk for a while or i can just interrupt you and we can get some nasty emails or something going but yes please talk for a while let us know what's going on michael so whilst i did not receive

'''Myke Hurley:''' my pink glove uh i was able to wrestle out of the snowstorm that we've had here uh in oh that's right that hasn't helped with my deliveries by the way true um i've been able to get a kaweco pen sleeve grip or the kaweco grip for apple pencils it's called it arrived um and i've had it for a couple of days and i have mostly my first impressions but it does really kind of feel like a a review of this product because it is it is simple enough that i don't think it requires a lot of time to to really really use it a bunch so one thing that surprised me it comes in the regular kaweco packaging like in the tin that they do the whole nine yards like and i wasn't expecting that because this feels like a little bit more of a technology product right then then yeah then they're typical but no it comes in like the little like brass looking tin that they do you know licensed to write since germany germany since 1883 with a fountain pen on it and it's like okay i get what you're going for but i feel like this isn't the packaging that it should be um but it's nice but it didn't it was just a surprise to me to receive this technology product in their old school

'''Brad Dowdy:''' packaging yeah i saw that in the notes i didn't think twice about it now that you've said it out loud i agree with you completely because it just looks like it looks like what you're going to get

'''Myke Hurley:''' in here is a sport honestly because that's what they've even got as a picture on the front of it so i think that that should be something that they should think about if they want to sell this product a bit more widely so the body of the the grip itself so like the actual aluminium the sleeve is very very lightweight um it is way lighter than i thought uh and then and then when i put it on the apple pencil i realized why because the whole package together it is noticeably heavier than the apple pencil like i haven't done any science on this but it feels about nearly twice the weight so on its own on with the whole thing together when you put that when you put it on to the apple pencil the weight difference is significant and gotcha the reason for this the reason that this is a problem or the reason that this is happening is because the apple pencil is too long to be made out of aluminium um you know like i've spoken about this a bunch like i want to see i've wanted to see apple make an aluminium version but they need to make it a bit bit shorter because the balance is a little bit weird because this is a very very long writing like piece of writing equipment right like it is i'm trying to find something to compare it to like it's even like three centimeters or two two and a half centimeters longer than my spoke pencil right like it is very large the apple pencil so i mean that's something i've always found a bit peculiar about it the size my expectation is because they made it bigger for battery life um and then they made it out of you know out of a plastic so it's it's nice and light but i've always found it to be a little long and that is accentuated when you're adding weight to the whole thing now the balance is is a little off but overall once you get used to it it's fine but you have to get used to it because it is heavy right it's it's heavier than it should be um but once you once you've had once you've used it for a little bit you kind of you get used to it right like it's not it's not terrible um the mechanism for tightening or like for for like kind of securing it is genius um and isn't very well explained so basically what you have is two pieces you have just at the knurled grip section and then the rest and what happens is there is like this little sleeve at the very end of the grip and it's got a bunch of cutouts in it so like a lot of slits all the way down so when you tight so then you put the you it's it's like a collar like a long collar it's like a few centimeters long and you put the grip section over that and screw it on and what it's doing is applying tension to this like collar and then holding it all in place and that's towards the top of the grip

'''Brad Dowdy:''' section not at the bottom towards the tip of the pencil right it actually extends all the way down

'''Myke Hurley:''' so like this this collar extends all the way down and it it adds what it does is it increases the tension around the whole thing so you're like squeezing the the the sheath i guess to the apple pencil okay by tightening the grip section around it it's very difficult to explain which is why they didn't really do an amazing job explaining it in the product marketing either but it is a genius way to do it which will not mark or damage the apple pencil it looks like so i think that they've they've found a really smart way of doing it and once you've screwed it on thing does not budge like cannot you cannot get it to budge unless you apply like just horrific force right like force that you never actually apply in a general setting and i mean you can keep tightening it up and you can this thing won't move right like you can you can be hitting this thing down hard and it's not going to come out

'''Brad Dowdy:''' so the integration of that once you put it in there it looks seamless like it's flawless the way it's

'''Myke Hurley:''' integrated onto the pencil yeah it's done very very very well um the knurling feels great it's very nice it's very slight which i like um so it adds nice grip but the grip section is too far up so you have the knurling and then there's like this little piece of like aluminium that like goes down into the tip you can see this in the pictures so you've got like the the knurled section then there's like a piece of aluminium that has some lines that run around it and then it goes down into the tip of the pencil the reason it's too high up is because they have to leave distance for the for the apple pencil tip anyway so it's always going to be too high up so i've kind of found myself holding it either below where the knurl grip is or just holding the knurl grip and it just feels a little bit too high for me but it works right like it works it's it's a little higher than i would like but i have pens that are like that right like this is a thing it's a personal preference thing but it works fine um but it feels really really nice to hold the the knurling is really really nice it it provides the grip that i want from the apple pencil like i find the alum that did this the acrylic a little bit too slippery but this gives me enough grip without being overbearing you know like it's not i don't feel like it's digging into my hands um the flat sides of the barrel uh is really great so coupled with the weights that are inside of the apple pencil anyway this thing doesn't move right like it maybe rolls once and stops which the apple pencil does not do on its own in my opinion like you put it down hard enough and plus the added weight helps right so just the overall added weight that the aluminium provides is all to keeping it this thing from moving around so my kind of overall feeling on this there are there are some things to get used to there are some drawbacks but this what kaweko have actually done here they may as well have been listening to me specifically because they have made exactly what i think apple should be making it is aluminium with flat sides and a knurl grip like that this is what the apple pencil in my opinion should be like as an aftermarket accessory this is a superb addition to the apple pencil and i think i'm going to get another one of these for my other apple pencil like it is it provides me with basically everything that i want from this product it is just a shame that there's no way really that they can work around some of the drawbacks about compromising the design like the aluminium could just be like halfway down and that would solve a few of the problems right like it could cut off but then it wouldn't look good because they've done an excellent job of integrating the design by having like the just the the shiny silver cuff between the grip section and the body which matches what apple have at the top of the pencil by the cap right like they've done a they've they've done an excellent job designing this product and it solves a bunch of problems it creates a couple of new ones but the overall experience of this