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cw&t
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Ti2 Pen by Mike Bond
CNC lathe turned Titanium pen body and cap for the Pilot HITEC C pen.
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158% funded $15,899 pledged
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5 days ago
cw&t
Posted project update #25shipped pens + hacked G2 + pen tips + post
Heya Backers!
More pens shipped and were packed and quality controlled last week. The next shipment of 480 pens is scheduled for May 22.
Thank you for being so patient with us. The pens are still looking great. Deep breaths, we really believe it will be worth the wait!
For those of you who have already or are about to receive your pens. One of the coolest things that have come out of this are the doodles/images that you have posted to pentype-a.tumblr.com. They are so impressive. People also started posting photos of creative spaces where their Pen Type-A lives. Crazy inspiring. Seeing the pen out in the wild is incredibly rewarding/warm/cozy feeling for us.
Thank you! and please keep it up!
pentype-a.tumblr.com/submit
Other Compatible Cartridges
Thanks to your fellow backer @Matthias Kraus for his clever G2 hack. Matthias discovered that Pen Type-A is also compatible with Pilot's line of G2 cartridges. We ordered a few to test it out. And indeed, it works great! G2 ink cartridges have a bolder line and a less fragile pen tip. This might suit people who find the pen tip scarily dainty, or for people who just want to play around with different marking styles. (p.s. G1 cartridges don't fit)
*** The G2 cartridges are a bit shorter than the Hi-Tec-C and require a little space filler to fill the gap between the cartridge and the screw. You can use tubing, a cotton ball, or even paper towel or tissue rolled up into a 5mm ball. Whatever you choose to fill the gap, make sure it's breathable, so air can flow into the back of the cartridge.
Pen Tips
If you feel like swapping out your cartridge... MAKE SURE YOU DON'T ACCIDENTALLY THROW AWAY THE LITTLE TIP PIECE!!! There is a little assembly diagram in the paper insert that comes with the pen. Make sure you hang onto all those pieces or you'll end up with sadface pen (see image below of backer @andrew aka thoughtbox's very sad pen)
Nice Post
The wife of a backer way out in Sydney, Australia posted a nice write up about Kickstarter and Pen Type-A: how I see it
So nice + thank yoU!!!
Stop motion
Small stop motion of us packing and QCing but it died part way through ... sorry!
Address changes
Don't fret. If you need to change your shipping address, just send us a quick email to cwandt@cwandt.com. Please include your full name and your new address. We don't expect you to all have stayed in the same place for the past many months waiting for your pen!
That's it for today.
big hugs and love and soothing rain out the window
che-wei + taylor
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on April 30
cw&t
commented on a project@RCMason: take apart the pen and you will find it hidden. you shouldn't have to look at our names everyday!
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on April 27
cw&t
Posted project update #24tracking app updated
We just updated the tracking app with data from the fulfillment company. This is with data from yesterday ... and still more pens are being shipped as we type. We are manually updating this data as we ship, so you won't see pens count down live (sad face), but you will see jumps in your number every once in a while.
A batch of 480 just shipped to us from the fabricators. We are expecting to receive it at our studio early next week for another session of quality control + packing.
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che-wei + taylor
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Mike Cheng on May 16
Ha! Order Date 8-7-11, 2165 pens to go! I'm guessing around Xmas is when I'll get my pens.
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John Luker on May 16
@Mike: Well, they did say in the original that they'd make a great Christmas gift!
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on April 27
cw&t
backed a project
Flint and Tinder: Premium Men's Underwear by Jake Bronstein
Luxuriously rugged yet refined Premium Men’s Underwear; Sparking a revolution in American Manufacturing the old fashioned way.
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971% funded $291,493 pledged
- 5,578 backers
- Funded May 22, 2012
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on April 26
cw&t
Posted project update #23we like you !
2 updates in 1 week! (tiny inbox bombardment) just trying to keep you up to date.
We packed more pens yesterday. 476 of them! This morning we shipped them to fulfillment since we JUST missed yesterday's post office closing time arg.
At the bottom there's another little stop motion of quality control + packing below.
The pens from monday's batch of 300 shipped out yesterday from fulfillment. Many of you received confirmation emails from those already.
The pens from this morning's batch will ship tomorrow or monday from fulfillment (depending on how fast the snail delivers the mail). If a pen is heading your way, you'll receive a confirmation email then.
Your drawings are awesome. proof
Make more of them please. now!
The app will be updated after all these pens are shipped from fulfillment. This is something we do manually after we get the updated data from fulfillment, so please be patient. We'll let you know when it happens so you can track your pen count down.
big hearts
che-wei + taylor
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chris moller on April 26
wow, you guys are a well oiled machine.... fun watching you work..... hope you're both still getting deep satisfaction out of this huge learning experience, and how to do everything. love that the poetry is still flowing..... a very big thankyou for sharing your lives
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on April 24
cw&t
Posted project update #22more on pens
Hey Backers !
Sorry this update is long overdue. We've had lots going on the pen front in the last couple of weeks. Including a few issues on the legal side of things with our fabricators. Luckily we were able to refocus them on the task at hand, which is delivering our initial purchase order (your pens).
Schedule
- we just sent out a shipment of 300 pens yesterday.
- 480 pens are arriving later today that we will QC (quality control) + pack and have sent out by Friday.
- 480 pens are being shipped to us on Friday and should arrive by next week for us to QC + pack. Those should be sent out by the end of next week.
After these batches (so by the end of next week), we will have shipped approximately 2497 pens. We are ALMOST at the half way mark! Again we wish this number was higher, but we are getting much closer.
This is a revised schedule from our fabricators with the shipping dates of when pens will ship from the factory to our studio for QC + packing:
30-Apr-12 - 480 pens
16‐May‐12 - 480 pens
29‐May‐12 - 480 pens
11‐Jun‐12 - 480 pens
23‐Jun‐12 - 480 pens
7‐Jul‐12 - 480 pens
23‐Jul‐12 - 480 pens
7‐Aug‐12 - 494 pens
21‐Aug‐12 - Fill remaining pens that were rejected in QC if < 500
13 4‐Sep‐12 Fill remaining pens that were rejected in QC if < 1000
Yes we know we will hit the 1-year mark if that is how the schedule stays. Yes that sounds just as insane to us as it does to you. But hey, this pen is over-engineered all the way to crazy land and will last lifetimes!
Tracking app
Just a side note... You will NOT see any changes reflected in the tracking app until we receive an updated spreadsheet from the fulfillment company after shipping these batches. We will get this done as fast as we can.
You will get an email with your tracking info once your pen ships.
Once we have seen consistency and reliability with receiving pens we will update the shipping application to reflect an estimated ship date. We are still waiting for this consistency to publish this, without it it's a pretty meaningless indicator.
Sweet drawings! serious.
check out doodles : http://pentype-a.tumblr.com/
submit your own Pen Type-A doodles : http://pentype-a.tumblr.com/submit
Or if it is easier for you to email us: cwandt[at]cwandt[dot]com
Thanks for your continued patience with us and this project!
We can't even begin to tell you how much your support has meant to us over the last few months. There have been lots of hurdles, and learning experiences we never expected would come out of this. We can't wait to get to the finish and see where Pen Type-A gets spit out into the world.
A window into our studio
Check out some repetitive motion repetitive motion with our little stop motion video we made with our friends from Studio Neat's app called frameographer. (you might have heard of them because they make awesome + are kickstarter famous) weeeeee!
Big hugs and loads of love,
che-wei + taylor
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François Blavoet on April 25
@Angus Leche : my pen should also be in the next batch since I am a number 34 in the queue and I also did not receive any mail. So I suppose that they have been sent to the fulfilment company.
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François Blavoet on April 29
@Angus You are lucky I am still waiting for my shipping confirmation, even though the webapp tells me my pens have been shipped. I hope they will not get lost somewhere.
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on April 23
cw&t
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Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android by Pebble Technology
Pebble is a customizable watch. Download new watchfaces, use sports and fitness apps, get notifications from your phone.
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10,266% funded $10,266,845 pledged
- 68,929 backers
- Funded May 18, 2012
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on April 13
cw&t
backed a project
Instaprint - The location based photo booth for Instagram by BREAKFAST
Instaprint prints out Instagrams by watching out for any photos tagged with specific location or hashtags.
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on April 13
cw&t
backed a project
Blink / Steady - The bike light you've been waiting for. by Benjamin Cohen
We're building the smartest, strongest bike light you can buy. Start riding, and it turns on by itself. And of course, it's beautiful.
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222% funded $77,952 pledged
- 738 backers
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cw&t
Brooklyn, NY
CW&T is Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy. We have a teeny design studio in Brooklyn where we make HARD and SOFT things. With the latest tools and processes, we imagine near future possibilities and build them into reality.
This is awesome! The Hi-Tec C and the G2 are my favorite pens ever! Whoohoo!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! for the G2 hack. This makes this pen so much more functional for me.
The edges on the bottom piece are all very sharp and they end up almost putting a hole in my bag's pocket where i keep the pen. Does anyone have a solution to this problem?