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== New Products ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Exactly. So you've got this new product coming out. What, what else is in the future plans for Silverhand Studios?

'''Chris Manning:''' Uh, it should be a custom, a new, uh, limited edition pen, sorry, coming out, uh, hopefully by the end of the year. So I've got that, uh, got that on the docket and, um, got a few new design ideas for next year. We'll see, uh, we'll see what comes out. I'd love to get into doing some watches, but we'll see. That's, uh, that's probably not a 20, 2016 thing. That'll probably be, uh, you know, a little bit in the future. Gotcha. Gotcha.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, Chris, this has been eyeopening for sure. Um, I love the products. I love hearing about the process. Um, I don't want you to hurt yourself making these pens though. So I'll be checking up on you to make sure you've made it through the day. Um, you know, very frequently I'll check in and you make sure nothing's blown up in your face. Um, Myke, do you have any, anything to add?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No. I mean, what's, what do you think's the best thing for somebody to do, Chris? Like, do you, would you suggest if somebody likes what they see to, to contact you before necessarily buying? Like, what would you do? Or would you say, you know, it's best to maybe see your stuff in person if possible? What do you think?

'''Chris Manning:''' Well, having a conversation is always important. I, you know, that's, that's the first thing that, that I do with everybody. I, I don't have people just adding stuff to the cart and, and buying it. Uh, you know, it's not like, uh, not like pen chalet, right? Yeah. Um, so, you know, I, I have a conversation with everybody before they, they buy the pens. It is a lot of money and it is something that you're investing in. That's going to be around for hundreds of years. So, you know, you need to make sure that it's, it's the right thing for you. It's certainly helpful to be able to see it in person. Um, so. Do you, do you do straight up custom work? Like one off? I don't anymore. No, I used to do some custom work, but I, I don't anymore. I have too many, too many of my own design ideas and, um, you know, I can keep my plate full with, with the work that I'm doing. That's awesome. Yeah. I love hearing that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I'm really pleased that you're able to, to make a living from this cause it's kind of, it's kind of crazy. Like, you know, like, you know, it's almost just to you like 10 years ago, you're going to make your living selling, uh, handmade pens that cost over a thousand dollars a piece. You probably think you're crazy, right?

'''Chris Manning:''' Absolutely. Well, you people, people do think I'm crazy. It's, uh, it's a different, it's a different world and it's a different thing that I'm doing, but it, it, it works. And that's, uh, yeah. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I've, I've hung out with Chris in person. I can verify he is definitely not crazy. He is a legitimately good guy and I enjoyed my time, uh, with him in DC and I've certainly enjoyed the time that we had on this show and we appreciate you making the time out for us. Of course. And we'll, we'll have to do it again, uh, in the future, you know, maybe when these new pens release or, you know, when something else is, uh, coming new down the pipeline, we'll get you back on and talk about it because, uh, absolutely loved having you love having you.

'''Chris Manning:''' And I think, uh, the listeners are going to honestly, you guys have, have barely scratched the surface of, uh, of what it is that I'm doing and some of the neat things that are going on in the shop.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I think, I think that's a good starting point because like all the stuff you're saying was just blowing my mind. And if that's like the, uh, the one-on-one level stuff, you know, we're, we're in trouble. We got some homework to do, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let's go make some pens, bro.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. We'll work on that. All right. Well, thank you, Chris. And, uh, get us out of here, Myke, and we'll, uh, we'll get this up for everyone to listen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you want to find Chris's work, head on over to silverhandstudios.com. There'll be links in the show notes too, including a link to the, the little pen addict listener preview, uh, over at relay.fm slash pen addict slash one seven four. If you want to find, uh, links to, uh, everything that Brad does head on over to pen addict.com. He is pen addict on the Instagram and he is dowdyism on Twitter. D O W D Y I S M. And I am, I Myke, I M Y K E on Twitter and Instagram too. So thank you so much for listening. Thank you to Pen Shelley for sponsoring and we'll be back next time. Until then say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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