Editing The Pen Addict 180/transcript (section)

== Pencils and Pens ==


'''Adam Kornfield:''' Besides the Squire, what pens and pencils are you guys using?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, hell to the no, no, no. That's a good question. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So, we actually, a buddy of ours, Andy Wellfleet, you guys know him, right? Sure, sure, sure.

'''Adam Kornfield:''' Yeah. Wood Clenched and the Erasable Podcast.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He is awesome. We see him, like, every six months or so, I think. You know, we go to the West Coast last. He comes here. And he introduced us to, what's it called? The Black... No, no, no. The Pallet and the Blackwing.

'''Adam Kornfield:''' Oh, the Pallet. Yeah, that's great.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Okay. And now that's pretty much the only pencil I use. Like, it's been a beautiful design, all that.

'''Adam Kornfield:''' So, for this, for my show prep, I use the WorkPlay Confidant with the Blackwing Palomino 602 to get all the notes. It's a wonderful pencil notebook. The paper receives the pencil very well.

'''James:''' Yeah. We're huge fans of the Blackwing. Also, down, another shout-out to our friend Caroline Weaver down at CW Pencils. Yes. It's kind of, it's right near where I live, so I stop by sometimes. So, a few months ago, I stopped down there. I was like, Caroline, just give me a smattering of stuff we want to try. Yeah. So, she gave me a whole sample pack of all sorts of different things. And, yeah, Palomino was the way to go. It definitely worked really well with our books. We were quite happy with it.

'''Adam Kornfield:''' So, now, one comment I know you get on the books from day one, because it was in the original Kickstarter, that the paper is not necessarily perfect for every pen. And we have tons of fountain pen users that want a more fountain pen-friendly paper in the Baron Fig products. Like, I think it's a very good fountain pen notebook, but it's obviously not perfect. There's so much variation in nibs, inks, things like that. So, do you ever see any type of variation in the paper found on the inside of the products that you're all using? Or are you pretty set with kind of the formula you've got so far?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a good question. Definitely something we get asked a lot. At this point, the thesis statement, right, the mission of our company is to champion thinkers in their journey to create and inspire the world, right? And what that means in, like, layman's terms is we want you to brainstorm in our book. And the goal for that is to optimize your ability to get ideas onto the paper. And I think part of that is to have a lot of pages in your book while still keeping the book at a small size, right? Not too thick. So, in order to do that, there's a certain thickness you get where it optimizes. You know, we have 192 pages in our book. And if we were to go and optimize for the thicker nibs, we would have less pages in our book, which would make it seem like then the space that you do have is even more precious. And I don't want that feeling because then that kind of goes against brainstorming. So, for now, this is the paper we use. And it works well with a lot of fountain pens, especially a lot of thinner ones. We use the Lamy Safari here all the time. But, of course, you know, ideally, Baron figures around for a very long time. And there will certainly be more things to come in that realm.

'''Adam Kornfield:''' So, I think the best thing people can take away from that, and that's something we all struggle with, and something I personally struggle with, and something our listeners struggle with, and the readers of The Pen Addict struggle with, is use the damn notebook. It's not made to sit there and look pretty on your shelf. Get out your pen. Get out your pencil. Get out whatever you want to do. Let your ideas just go into these notebooks. And, you know, a company like Baron Fig is, like, the perfect capturing device for all these ideas. You know, get out there. Use the stuff that you're buying. And fill them up with silly pictures of Joey. You know, Adam running around yelling at everybody. You know, just James wearing Santa suits. Just fill them up. Fill them up, right? I mean, I think that's what we all want to – that's the end goal here, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, to get it out of your head and onto paper. Magic happens. It really does when you do that.

'''Adam Kornfield:''' Awesome. Well, you guys are great. Anything else, anything I missed that you want to touch on before I let you all go and get those stakes down before not sleeping at all tonight?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just if you want to grab the pen or check it out, you can go to baronfig.com and click the homepage banner starting tomorrow morning or by the time you're listening to this. And you'll be redirected right to our campaign.

'''James:''' Yeah, and I appreciate you guys having us. It was a great time. And yeah, hopefully back at some point.

'''Adam Kornfield:''' Yeah, it was way too long in the making and it will not be near as long the next time we get you guys back on it. It was awesome. I really appreciate you all taking the time to do this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, thank you for asking.

'''Adam Kornfield:''' All right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you want to find links to the things we discussed today, including a link to baronfig.com, you can, of course, go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 180 or just take a look in the show notes of your podcast app of choice and you'll find all of the lovely links in there. If you want to follow Brad online, he is at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M on Twitter. I am at iMike, I-M-Y-K-E. And of course, you can always go to penaddict.com. Thanks again to our sponsors for this week for helping make this episode possible. Pen Chalet, Harry's and Squarespace. And of course, thanks to the guys, the great guys over at Baronfig. Go check out their products. Go support what they're doing because they're doing some awesome stuff. Thank you so much for listening. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad.

'''Adam Kornfield:''' Goodbye, Brad.

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