Editing The Pen Addict 394/transcript (section)

== Pen Show Experience ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Speaking of, uh, fancy King of pen and pen shows.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He, he, he, he, he, I saw this and I was wondering.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So at the San Francisco pen show, I took a, took a walk over to the table of our friend, Mr. Jonathan Brooks and handed him my, uh, pro gear King of pen, which was, has the Navy grip section and the Navy finials and, uh, rhodium, I think trim. Yeah, I think so. And I handed it to him and I said, I want you to do something to this pen. I don't really know what he showed me some previous designs. I told him that I liked a honeycomb pattern that he did. And then I put it in his hand and last week it came back to me. Uh, Jonathan posted some pictures on his Instagram, which I'll put in the show notes. What he delivered to me was something I never could have expected. It is very beautiful, very subtle. Uh, what Jonathan, cause I, when I saw one of the in progress pictures and Jonathan had painted in a rushi, there's like gold honeycomb pattern on the clear barrel. And I was like, okay, that's interesting. Like I wonder where he's going with this. Right. And then what he ended up doing is, so he's painted these honeycomb patterns in blocks kind of, uh, it's not the entire pen isn't, you can, you can see it in the in progress photos that are on the Instagram posts that I put in. Uh, so they're gold. And then he covered the entire thing in a Tamanuri finish, which is like a kind of a deep red. So the pen that I have at first glance, it looks like it is a dark red semi demonstrator. But if you then, if you take a look at it or you put it up to light, you see this gold honeycomb pattern shining through. I love it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is wild looking. It is amazing looking. The finish of it, like on the first couple images, looks like it came out the factory that way. Like, like the workmanship seems natural, I guess is what I'm trying to say. Right. It seems like it was built that way, which just makes it even more stunning to look at. So yeah, I can't wait to, I didn't know if you had it in hand yet. Um, but yeah, I can't wait to see that, um, in Atlanta when we, when we meet up. So definitely bring that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm sure you will. Oh, I'll be bringing it because I know people will want to see it. And so, yeah, this is a, this is a very fun and very special, uh, pen that I now own. It's, and I've, uh, I've loaded it with a Bisou gold, like the sailor gold, because there's now like this gold hidden in the pen and now the ink to match it is gold as well. I love it. Like I already loved this pro gear and now I love that mine is one of a kind.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. It's awesome. It's awesome. I love it. So yeah, I, I gotta figure out, like, I need to do, get some pens like this worked on, you know, get someone to do some, make my pens a little extra like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, um, I mean, I just like that this was a thing that I just handed over. Um, you know, I like being able to do that sometimes to just be like you work it out, right? Like this is yours. You're the expert. I don't know what I'm talking about. Give it a go. See what you can do with it. And he did. And it's amazing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, this next link in the show notes is definitely someone given a go at it. And I've talked about this style of pen before, and this is from Y studio where they do the, the previous version was almost like a gold leaf addition to the pen. And I don't know why I love this so much, but I do like, and I haven't, I didn't buy the last one. The last one I think was, what is this one called? I don't know. The last one was called like dragon's breath or something like this. Um, and this one is the calm before the storm and it's the same kind of technique. The last one was on a roller ball. This one, um, I think it's on a roller ball, but it might come on the fountain pen as well. I'm not so sure, but I can't help, but look at these and just see how, how stunning they are. And I didn't really include it in the show notes for any other reason, just to say that I'm one of those people who will spend stupid amount of money for like craftsmanship and artwork on like a roller ball pen or a ballpoint pen where some people like really wouldn't consider that unless it was a fountain pen. It's like, I didn't buy the last one. I probably won't buy this one, but I'm tempted. I'm tempted. Um, and I also kind of bring this up in conjunction with the next link in our doc, Myke. So the Tokyo pen show we're going to hopefully in a couple of years, they have already been so successful they're splitting, uh, their calendar show calendar year into two shows with the regular show still in that fall timeframe. And then launching the, uh, Japan premium pen show in May, which is a smaller boutiquey type of pen show with just, you know, a limited amount of vendors, usually kind of high end stuff. And it made me this Y studio pen made me think of, well, that's something I would see at this, the premium pen show. So I'll put that link in the show notes. I know we have a few, uh, listeners from Japan and I just thought it was worth mentioning since the, the promoters of the Tokyo international pen show do such a great job and are getting great feedback on their show. I thought people might want to hear about this. Um, so it's just, uh, it's a real, uh, click on the link for the hotel. It's like this really nice hotel. Like I think it's going for a little bit different market. That's really not my style. But then I look at things like this Y studio pen was like, yeah, I would totally buy that. And it's such a unique thing. And so I'll be interested to see how the premium pen show, um, goes this, uh, late this spring, just to see like what the feedback is for that. And if that more boutique style of pen show works for them, um, it's, it's certainly interesting, an interesting idea.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I am excited about this. Like, I think also, I do think that the premium pen show does kind of sound like something that we would enjoy, right? That like that would have a lot of the types of things that we would be interested in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. But like, I mean, it starts off with like, and they, they admitted as much like it's at the premium hotel, right? It's like at a $500 a night hotel type of thing, right? It's made for a certain, certain clientele. I would love to attend, uh, just maybe not stay at the hotel or something. I don't know, but maybe it's worthwhile. I'm interested to see what the feedback is. Like, did it, did it work? Like, did they have the clientele to, um, to bring in was, you know, what a regular buyer like myself or anyone else, you know, walking in, you know, feel comfortable and, you know, was in, in seeing enough things, or is it just like all craftsmanship and like artisan type stuff? Um, which would be great to look at too. So yeah, I think it's interesting, but I think more of a, I think it's more of a sign that the group running that show is doing really good things and getting good feedback enough to where they feel that they could do a separate show throughout the year. Yeah. What did they say?

'''Myke Hurley:''' They had like 2,000 people attend the regular show? Like, that's amazing.