Editing The Pen Addict 240/transcript (section)

== Franklin Kristoff ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So what'd you buy?

'''Tiff Arment:''' Well, I got two Franklin Kristoffs. I got I got one of their. Let me take it out here. I got one of their Italian ice pen. So it has like that purple sheen to it, which is kind of neat. And I got it filled with the Philly pen orange. I didn't buy a bottle, but I do get this tremendous model 66 filled with that eyedropper. So I have a lot of it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's a huge pen like the big 66. I have one of those two. It's really cool. Not in the Italian ice, though, which I think is my favorite that I don't own that that tent. I don't know how they do it, but it looks so cool.

'''Tiff Arment:''' I know. But I can't. You have to get it in the right light to get that. Totally. Then once you do, especially with the orange in there, it looks really cool. And I got another one of their. Oh, don't roll away. Okay. Get back here. And I got another one of their. I think it's a 45. And it's kind of like I was into the red. All of a sudden the show, everything I bought had some red in it. And it's kind of like a pearled sheen to it in their one of their model 45s. Again, it was like a prototype. So nab that up because it seems like if there's one, then there's none.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that was one of my pen pity party pens. I bought one in Chicago last year. That baby came out for my pity party.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I was like, oh, look at the little IPO on the cap.

'''Tiff Arment:''' Hey, guys.

'''Tiff Arment:''' Oh, if I were a cartoonist, I would draw such a funny cartoon of like you and your pen. Oh, my goodness.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They're all set around the table. You know, they've got little bottles of ink in front of them.

'''Tiff Arment:''' Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Like the little sample bottles, like each one has like a little one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like the table is super small. Like it's like a little kid's table.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Brad's sitting at it. Yeah. My knee scrunched up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So how was the Franklin Kristoff arrangement? Was it similar to what you'd seen in Atlanta? Like they had like a big table and you could go and try everything out?

'''Tiff Arment:''' Oh, yeah. It was exactly the same. Exactly the same. They are like a machine. I have to tell you. Like they you see they have all the prototypes right in the front. So it doesn't clog up any of the workings of testing nibs and everything a little bit further down the line. And then they have, you know, you can test out the nibs. You can test out the ink before you decide which one you want to fill with. And then they have a name doing the work, the nib work at the end. Oh, Jim. Jim. Yes. Yeah. And then he's doing the nib work at the end. He doesn't have a goatee beard anymore. Oh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Clean shave Jim. Wow. Yeah. So their table's like it's got that bug zapper effect, right? I mean, the door's open and everyone's just like right over there. And their wallets get zapped. And they're the first table too.

'''Tiff Arment:''' So it was like, bam. It was right there. Especially since they were pretty much sponsoring the majority of the show. Yeah. But yeah. And then they held, they kept, I heard that they held back a lot of their prototype stuff to put out during each day, each morning. Yeah. They started doing that last year. So that was nice. And yeah. So, and that's, it was, it was just really good. They had a lot of stuff. They had a lot of cases. Um, the ink, the new, the Philly orange ink was really popular. People were grabbing that up real fast in their notebooks. Also, they had a couple of notebooks and things for, for Philly specific. And, um, yeah, I, I'd spent, I, and then once you got their pens, um, they put them in a bag and they said, you know, wait for your name to be called to get the nib work done. And so it was, it was quite a long wait because people were picking up like two, three, four pens. Like, yeah, that's what I heard.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's what everyone was saying.