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== Canalea Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' it's like, to me, this is, this pen is the daytime version of Starry Night, right? Yeah. It's, it's really stunning, and my favorite part is, where the cap meets the barrel, that's where a lot of the sun is, so it like, transitions like, all the way around the barrel, and like the swirls match up, I don't know, I, I can't put this down, this is, I, I already like this better than my, Koala Sunset, I will, I will use this more than my Koala Sunset, even though I love that pen equally, it's like, this is, I know it's new, and, you know, fresh, but, it, I don't see this pen going uninked for a while, I think I put like, Oster Soda Pop Blue, or something, so I put some bright blue ink in this, just so, I can match that bright blue of the, of the pen, yeah, it's really good,

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love this pen, Oster Orange Zest, in this, which is given to me at the show, as a gift, and, I, because I think, I have a lot of orange in mine, like, in the, in the body, like, it's predominantly, there's a lot, like, really, really orange, and that, so I thought that worked really well, I have a stub nib, a 1.1 stub, in mine, oh, okay, I was thinking you had a broad, or a medium,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' no,

'''Myke Hurley:''' it's a 1.1 stub, there's just something about canalea pens, where I feel like they have to be extravagant, in some way, like, they're just, they're such extravagant designs, I feel like the nibs have to follow suit, right, there must be some extravagance to it, and again, we've mentioned this in the past before, like, these, the blanks of these pens are made by Jonathan Brooks, and, you know, I have, what, four, I have, one, two, three, four, five, six Brooks pens now, which is wild, I'm including, okay, so in that, I'm including just the blanks that he's made, so, like, included in that is my Newton pen, but it's a primary manipulation, right, so, like, in the same way that, right, like, he's making, just makes the blanks for the canalea pens, and then they make, they turn them, right, I think that the partnership of Hugh and Carol and Jonathan is quite a special one, like, it seems like that they push him into making some very exciting things, right, like, that they push him creatively, and, as a trio, they are making just some, just wonderful looking things right now, I'm, continue to be very excited about canalea, because, every time, they release something new, it is, always very exciting to me, right, yep, and so, yeah, this is just such a great company, and they're such wonderful people, and, it really helps that they make incredible products, right, right, they make it easy, right, yeah, it is,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' it's not something, and it's not one every month either, right, I mean, yeah, I like that they spread it out, there's just no way it can be done,

'''Myke Hurley:''' one release a year, if that, right, like, that, I think that is really good, because they're not cheap, right, they are not cheap, you know, they, they, they, had a bold strategy, right, right, they came into the market selling $400 pens, which, I don't think happens a lot, so, like, they really had hard work ahead of themselves to prove that they were worth the value, and, you know, I think time has shown that, yeah, they were, and I think that they took a big gamble when they arrived on the scene, but I think it's been paying off, it looks like it's been paying off.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep, so, that was our other Atlanta pen show purchase, so, that's why we, we didn't exactly go crazy at the show, because we just both dropped $400 on the Canalea pen, yeah, so, but I'm thrilled, I'm thrilled with it, me too, you'll be seeing a lot of pictures of these, yep, coming up soon, I took a terrible lighting one, right when I sat down to do the podcast, because they had already announced it, so, I have a terrible Instagram picture, but I'll take some, I'll take some better ones as we go forward, you'll be seeing this pen a lot, yeah,

'''Myke Hurley:''' yeah, yeah, do you want to do a couple of Ask TPA, before we leave today?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Let's just hit a couple of these, and, as a note for, next week, we're going to record two episodes next week, so I've saved a bunch of Ask TPA, from, the episode two weeks ago, where we asked the question about, you know, what does it take to get started in, in making your own pens, yep, so I got some really lengthy, good quality emails, we're going to save for future episodes next week, when we'll have longer, to explore, and discuss those things, so, between now and next week, if you have more questions, please hit us up, at, just hashtag, Ask TPA on Twitter, that's the easiest way, or send them to, hello at penaddict.com, we'll get them all, in the show doc, we will, be needing some questions, for next week, to fill up those two episodes, but, knowing us, we can, we can handle it pretty well, so let's hit a couple of these, like this first one, from Hot Cup of Loving, who was there, I got my hot cup of hugging, at the Atlanta pen show, so she wants to know, how long does it take you, to recover from a pen show, it just depends, it depends on if I catch the crud, or not, I've had shows, where it's taken me like, five days to recover, I've had shows, where it's taken me like one, so it just depends, on if I catch the crud, if I catch the crud, it usually hurts me, for a few days, and that's happened once this year, and it takes me, it just puts me on my butt, for about three days, and it's, I hate it, so, you know, but like this show, took me about a day, because I'm same time zone, I drove, I didn't have to fly, I didn't get sick, so, yeah, it's been okay, but you know, I've had some, where I'll return home on Monday, and I won't feel good, until the following weekend,

'''Myke Hurley:''' yeah, jury's still out, for me, you're, you're still pending, on this one, problem was, I arrived at the show, with a cold, so, you know, I have, I don't know, I mean, these things, usually, the most, the thing I have to get over, is the jet lag, and that takes about three days, or whatever, the funk of like, not being at a pen show, can last a little bit longer, right, because you had such a good time, that it's like, oh man, like, now I'm not with my pen buddies anymore, that can be a little bit longer,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' right, right, right, so, let's knock out these next two, real quick, both of them from Tianti, in the, in the slack room, and she said, I think she sent them over on Twitter, so, the first one, it says, Myke, what do your co-hosts, on your other podcast, think of your pen, pencil addiction, I want to know the answer to this one, it varies wildly,

'''Myke Hurley:''' it tends to start out, or has tended to start out, where people are like, huh, really, right, like, that's, you know, like, is that, is that a thing, and then, what tends to happen is a couple of things, one, I can give my explanation, which I give to people, just in general, which is, there is news in every industry, and, for a lot of people, they go, oh, okay, that makes sense, like, because it's like, how can you have a podcast about pens, is the question, and the answer is just, there is news in every industry, every industry has news, and there are things happening all the time, so, there are product releases happening every single day, in the pen community, there's more than enough to talk about, right, and it keeps going on, it keeps changing, and then, people find, then, things happen, like, the Atlanta pen show, and they're like, well, okay, right, like, like, for example, Stephen comes, and he's like, it's so, it's so interesting to see, how people, react and treat us, when we're there, and like, people showing up to the live show, and stuff like that, so, you know, it tends to change over time, but I think Atlanta, especially, and the Kickstarter every year, has solidified to everyone in my life, that this thing, is actually a real thing, and it's not just me, and you talking to nobody, so that's kind of how it goes.