Editing The Pen Addict 235/transcript (section)

== Wood Clenched Erasable ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' You're a baby faced assassin. Yep. Yeah. So speaking of baby faced assassins, our good friend, Andy Wellfley of wood clenched and erasable fame just launched a new zine. He's calling it a companion to the erasable podcast. It's called Plumbago, which when he launched the, I just saw this this afternoon and I saw that name. I was like, why do I know that? What, what is Plumbago? And, you know, why does that register with me? Well, Andy has a good post about how that name came about and I won't spoil it. You'll read it. We'll have a link in the show notes to it. But I love this idea. He's put together a zine. I love zines. I was a huge into the music zine scene in the nineties. And, you know, Andy has done a really, really cool thing here. And it's got some articles and artwork for some of our favorite people like Caroline and Caitlin from CW Pencils and Harry Marks and, and, um, Anna Reiner and, uh, Toffer and Elaine and from Owl Inc. And just all kinds of people, you know, putting together this zine. And, uh, it's a really cool thing. And best of all is all the profits and all the proceeds are going to the Oakland Fire Department Relief Fund, which they just had that big, uh, huge ghost ship warehouse fire, um, in Oakland. And also to Girls to Women, which is a East Palo Alto based nonprofit empowering girls and young women. So $5 for the first issue. All the proceeds go to wonderful cherries charities. Um, this is like a complete no brainer for me. I've already ordered and, uh, you should too. So we'll have the link in the show notes. I thought that was cool.

'''Myke Dudek:''' That's super cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, um, you know, if we came up with our own zine, it would probably be called what's your favorite pen? Because that seems to be the question we always get, at least I do in my inbox. What pen are you using right now? What's your favorite pen? What's your favorite paper? Um, what are your top five? What are your top three? So I don't necessarily want to do like a specific hard top. What are your top five pens? But we got to ask this question a lot. You know, people want to know what our guests are using. So can you give me an example of kind of maybe two or three things that you're using recently? It doesn't necessarily even have to be a pen. It could be paper or something else. But what are, what are the things you've been, uh, really using a bunch recently?

'''Myke Dudek:''' Yeah, I found myself, let's see. I don't know. As far as care, as far as what I've been carrying a lot. Well, anytime I have like a metal barreled pen that, uh, takes like a, like a gel or a ballpoint or, you know, a G2 style or whatever. Um, it's always filled with like the Pentel Energel. Like always, every time. Like it's, it's my go-to kind of gel. Uh, I wish they kind of made a, uh, I don't know, a finer tip. But anyway, like one of the ones I've been carrying a lot recently is, um, my, actually kind of a local guy to me. Um, Chris, Chris Williams of it's, uh, I can never say the name right, but I think it's Adalia.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I'm not going to help you out with that one. And, uh, I know, I knew he was going to say, he's a good guy.

'''Myke Dudek:''' He's a solid, solid guy. Really, really cool guy. Um, being close, we get to, we get to kind of cross paths every once in a while and just, just kind of shoot the crap, you know? But, um, he, uh, one, one, like a pen that I've been using a ton recently is he came out with a, uh, stainless steel model of his pen. Uh, so it's like, it's a little, like you don't get the smell of the brass, but you get the weight. You know, and so like just really slim, really, uh, just, just, just a solid, I don't know. I just, I love kind of everything about that pen. Um, just its simplicity, but yeah, with the Energel every time. Um, let's see some other ones that I've been using recently. Oddly enough, it's like, I've been using, um, pencils too. Like, like not, not a ton, but I do use sort of the wood case pencils from time to time. Um, and I've been breaking slowly into my stash of the, uh, Blackwing 211s that came out. Oh, yeah. Those like wood, you know, the cedar looking wood ones. Oh, yeah. I mean. Dude, one, okay. Sidebar on those, right? Like, it's crazy, man. I think, I, I think I bought like two or three boxes of them. So I got them just stashed. But then like, have you seen how the price on those has just gone nuts?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, yes. So think about that. Every time you sharpen it, you're like peeling off a $2. I know. Seriously.

'''Myke Dudek:''' Every time I sharpen it, like, no, my, my, literally my wife came in to, and, uh, she was doing some calendaring stuff for something. And she's like, Hey, do you have a pencil I could borrow? And, uh, and I'm like, yeah, I have, you know, I have my pen, one of my pen holders right there, pencil holders. And she grabs a 211 and I give her this, like, you know, I give her this look like, Hey, you probably should bring that back. You know? It's like, no, I'm just kidding. So I'm like, you can have whatever you want. But, uh, literally. Yeah. So like seeing the dozens of those going for like a hundred dollars or something. That's crazy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, I have to start getting those little tile, uh, things that you put on to like track your lost devices in case your 211 doesn't come back. You can like hunt it down.

'''Myke Dudek:''' One of my kids just like hauls off and leaves with a box of them. And I'm like, that's coming out of your college fund right there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So are you saying you have more than one box? I don't know if you want to say this publicly. I know. Right. You'll get inundated. So Myke does not have more than one box.

'''Myke Dudek:''' You know, I just, I just sharpened the last one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So yeah, that's too bad. Too bad.

'''Myke Dudek:''' And then, uh, kind of on like a simpler, uh, I have my vanishing point, uh, with an architect from Dan Smith from the Nib Smith.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely.

'''Myke Dudek:''' Uh, great, great grind. I love that. And then like from like a doodling standpoint, like when I just like doodle or draw, I usually use the paper mate flare, which is just a little felt tip, you know, but great for great for just kind of sketching and drawing up ideas.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's, that's like a good all around setup. Like it's like one of each, you know, of course it isn't, but it's like good. Like I like to have one of each, you know, a fountain pen, a regular pen, a pencil, and then like a marker type pen. Like that's kind of a perfect setup for me. If I was carrying everything, um, I've been carrying, and I'm going to start getting hate mail on this cause I won't shut up, but it's the Aurora Optima. I love that pen. I'm using it for a show notes tonight. It's the red, uh, demonstrator one, which is really a clear demonstrator. It's just got red finial. So they call it the red demonstrator. It's synced up with the Waterman Mysterious Blue. And, uh, I, I'm loving that. I carry in my pocket almost daily the shown design 01, um, in aluminum, black aluminum. It's, um, really small pocketable pen. It's just the right weight. It posts, um, it thread posts to a really, really good length, good balance. Takes Fisher space pen refill. I use that, um, at knock pretty much religiously. That's kind of my go-to pocket pen.