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== Tom Benfield Journal ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So I found this question from, uh, our good friend and, uh, title champion, Doug Beal. He says the Tom Benfield journal is back in the same class as the not co portfolio question mark. Uh, probably need both. Yes. You're going to need both Doug. Um, it's, it's going to be different than our folio. Our folio is way different, but the reason why I wanted to bring this up. It's because I have this field journal. It's sitting here, um, in my desk. I've just been waiting for them to release it, to, um, work on my review for it. So they did the field journal way back in the day. I will have to search for the link on my, um, on penatic.com. Myke, I did a review of the Tom Benfield journal, great little product, and they did away with it. I'm not sure why, but they had such a clamoring for them to bring it back that they are reintroducing it a little bit of a redesign. And they sent me one to check out. Um, I knew it was launching at the end of this month. And now that we're at the end of this month, um, I can, uh, work on my view review. So I have the whole setup of the, the Tom Benfield journal, all the different papers, all the different inserts, um, all the different, um, little pen holders and things like that. So I'll start teasing out some picks and answering questions on that as I'm working on my review, which will hopefully be up in a couple of weeks. So that's why I wanted to mention that because.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What are your top level thoughts of this product though?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, it's really good. Uh, top level. It's really good. It's not like a useful product. That's not something I would use every day, but for someone who needs that kind of setup, it's totally useful and really, really nice. Um, so it allows you, it has a, um, the inside, it's like a ring binder on the inside. So they actually sell and provide a bunch of nice papers. Like I think I have some of the crane papers or some of the ones that they sent us. They sent me like three or four packs of papers to use in it. You can buy all different kinds of papers, but you can also, um, you know, punch your own. If you have a specific paper that you like standard three hole punch and you'll be right. It's not a standard three hole punch. I'll have to look at the shape and see what the standards are. It's not a three hole punch though. It's, it's at least six rings. Um, so I'll, I'll have to look and see what that format is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The pictures show three.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, am I blind then? Yeah. Okay. Then maybe then even better. So, um, and I mean, the quality is amazing. I mean, everything that they make is, is elite. It's like on the elite tier of the quality scale. You don't get much better quality than what they do. I mean, for me personally, that's why I reviewed the last one. I said, I enjoyed it. It's a great product. It's not a product I would use. So I gave it away and maybe we'll do the same thing with this one because it's just not something that fits my writing style. But in this case, it doesn't mean it's not an amazing product because it really, really is. They got a sick orange as well. Yeah. I didn't get the orange one. I think I want to say mine's Navy blue. I haven't taken it out yet. Um, but, uh, yeah, it is so cool. It's really cool. They, I love Tom Ben and I'm going to be doing some reviews for some of their products, uh, very, very soon, including this and not limited, included, but not limited to this, Michael. Hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. So Doug, Doug just, uh, Doug just dropped in another ass TPA last night, which I didn't ask. I pulled it up on his Twitter feed, getting this Tom Ben when he says, what do you think of fold your own nib at the show? Just need Coke can pliers and a nib holder. I will try it out and report back. Okay. You do that, Doug.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good luck. Thanks. Doug's going to be folding his own nibs, um, out of aluminum cans at the, uh, pen show. So, uh, everyone bring those to Doug.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. We can, we can see that in person. So next week is episode one 99. So it is the last episode before the pen show. Uh, I want to do some ask TPA pen show related stuff next week. So if you're coming to the show or you have any questions about the show, uh, just tweet them at us with the hashtag ask TPA. Um, and we'll hopefully get some time next week to address some of those, uh, in episode one 99 before we pass the next massive milestone.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So that's our next show. Um, and then the following week we would normally record on Wednesday. We're going to hold that all the way till Saturday night. And we don't, we can't, that's when we're going to record 200. Yeah. We don't know when that'll actually post maybe Sunday.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh, the very latest Sunday. Okay. The very latest Sunday. To be honest, I could probably have it out Saturday just cause there's very little you can do, uh, editing wise to a live show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's true. That's true.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So you just got out cross talk because it's on all the mics. True. So really it's just a little bit of mastering, putting the music in and uploading it. So it will be either Saturday or early Sunday. Uh, the episode 200 will be live in the feed and then we'll have all the video, which, you know, as we've lost, as of last time, we'll take a few weeks to put together. Um, and then we'll put that out as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, for sure. Yeah. That'll be May before the video is ready easily, easily, but still a pretty impressive timeframe for how quick they turned that around last year. So it's going to be the same group this year. Um, cause they did a fantastic job. So yeah, if you have any pinch Atlanta specific questions, you need to get them in for next week because if, if it's not next week showed, um, the following week will be the Atlanta pin show show. So, um, get them in. We'd love to hear from you. Hashtag ask TPA on Twitter. And, uh, we, we get them all straight into a document and it's, uh, it's fun to go through that stuff. Cause some great questions.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So excited. Yep. If you want to find the show notes for this week, head on over to relay.fm slash pen addict slash one nine eight. There's a bunch of really cool stuff in there this week. If you want to find Brad online, head on over to pen addict.com or knock.co. He is at dowdyism on Twitter. D O W D Y I S M. Um, and he is also pen addict on Instagram. Uh, I am I Myke, I M Y K E and all the social services you'd care to take a look at. Thanks again to the great people over at the pen chalet for helping make this show possible. And also a massive thank you to everybody that is a member of relay.fm or the pen addict, um, and it helps support both me and Brad, uh, and everyone here at relay.fm. Uh, we really, really appreciate that. And you can find out more about that by going to relay.fm slash membership and you can find out more about relay.fm memberships there. Uh, uh, but until next week, Mr. Dowdy ism, I must say goodbye. Goodbye, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye, Brad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, you just said it on your own this time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I don't know. I I'm just so in tune to, to what you want to do. I go to bed at night. I say good night, Brad.

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