Hello and welcome to another episode of The Grey NATO, a loose discussion of travel, adventure,

diving, driving, gear, and most certainly watches. This is episode 351, and it's proudly brought to you by

the always-growing TGN supporter crew. We thank you all so much for your continued support,

and if you'd like to support the show, please visit thegraynato.com for more details details. My name is Jason Heaton and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host,

James Stacey. James, welcome back to this side of the pond. It sounded like it was a good trip.

Great trip and back to an exciting episode after weeks. Maybe even more of me teasing stuff, getting the dates

wrong, not aligning correctly with the production schedule, but a very cool product. We can finally

take the wraps off our collaboration with tactile turn. The gray NATO side-click pen,

aka the CPN1, is now live. Jason, you want to walk people through it or maybe the design of it and then we can get to the specs?

I don't know. I'm excited about this and you've had a chance to actually kind of have it in hand. Yeah, me too. And I think, you know, we've kind of gone back and forth. And I think, you know, a tactile turn's been such a great partner in terms of kind of shepherding us through the design and production process and

kind of the packaging and getting this thing off the ground. And we couldn't be more thrilled.

I got a prototype a few weeks ago and I've been playing with it. It's just, it's pretty

spectacular. So this is, you know, we've talked about tactile turn in the past. They're based

out of Dallas, Texas. They do all of the production of everything except the springs.

You'll hear in a minute here from Ed Jelly, our guest today who works with Tactile Turn.

Yeah, so this is a stonewashed titanium barrel pen with the side-click action that Tactile

turns known for, and we've incorporated a few TGN specific kind of hints or cues on it,

including some orange accents and a kind of a bit of an engraving that says CPN1 on the barrel,

and then the orange dazzled camo pattern that we used on the crew watch number one pen packaging

that was designed by Evan at

Stacallum Industries that were kind of become a bit of a trademark for us. And we talk about it a

bit with Ed, but it's become kind of a fun little kind of visual cue for us. And it takes

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