The Pen Addict Podcast: Episode 129 - The Ugly Sweater Pen

Kickstarter projects are the dark, seedy, underbe...wait a minute, Kickstarter is great! At least most of the time. Myke and I brought on Dan Bishop from Karas Kustoms to talk about everything project creators go through to ensure Kickstarter project success, and the things backers can look for to make sure a creator has a good shot of delivering a quality product. We also talk about Field Notes. A lot.

Show Notes & Download Links

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Great Holiday Gifts (And A Giveaway!) From Huckberry

Huckberry is back! And this week, they aren't just making your holiday shopping easier, they have a little something extra in it for you as well.

Each week day, from now until November 28th, Huckberry will choose one winner from orders placed through this link and give that person a free gift (ships separately when promo ends). And these are no small gifts either. They are day specific, so choose the day of your order to match the free gift you want a chance for. Here is the list of goods:

Monday - Red Mod Notebook

Tuesday - Kara Kustoms Render K

Wednesday - Huckberry x Word Notebooks

Thursday - Satchel and Page Leather Journal

Friday - Tactile Turn The Mover

Mark a gift off of your shopping list, and have a chance for an extra gift for yourself. How cool is that?

Just since last week, Huckberry has added new gear, such as the Worn & Wound curated shop, casually refined menswear from Grayers, and Colorado-made daypacks from Madden. You are going to be hard pressed to find a better selection of goods than at Huckberry.

Don't forget to shop via this link to be eligible for the extra gift drawings from now until Black Friday.

My thanks to Huckberry for sponsoring The Pen Addict this week.

Kokuyo Beetle Tip Dual Color Highlighter Review

I don't do too many highlighter reviews because I don't have many situations where a highlighter comes in handy. My highlighter replacement tends to be a multi pen like the Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto where I can mark up or underline in a range of different colors. On the occasion where a highlighter is required there is only one brand for me though, and that is Kokuyo.

The original Kokuyo Beetle Tip 3way was the first, and probably only, highlighter to make me say wow. In one tip it has three different highlighting modes, and I can't imagine anything else I would ever need from a highlighter.

Since my experience was so positive with the 3way, I wanted to give the new Dual Color Highlighter a shot to see how it stacks up. The selling point of this highlighter are the two adjacent color tips. You can start with one color, rotate the pen 180 degrees, and pick up with the other color. You can also create a double underline by using the two tips at once right down the middle.

This all works great, but I had one annoying issue with the highlighter. The width of the barrel and the low profile of the highlighter tips caused me to tilt my head like a curious dog to see the line I wanted to highlight. It was awkward and I tired of doing that quickly.

Aside from that, the colors are on the light end of the scale, which I prefer, and the barrel quality itself is nice. Plus, I thought that was a Rebel Alliance symbol on the barrel the first time I looked at it. The Kokuyo Beetle Tip Dual Color Highlighter is not Empire approved.

(JetPens is an advertiser on The Pen Addict and I received this product at no charge.)