I’m very excited to be featured in Pen World!  I want to share the article with you all to read.

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Your Newton pen can come to you a couple different ways.

US shipping: USPS Priority insured.  Prices range from $12-26 or so.  You may pick USPS Express if you want it and I’ll figure out the cost.

International shipping: UPS uninsured, $40-60 or so.

Every Newton pen comes in a handmade cloth pen sleeve.  You also have the option of getting this travel mug with your pen in it. With this you you can enjoy that perfect cup of coffee, or relaxing cup of tea (or Bloody Mary) while writing and drawing away with your Newton pen.

The travel mug is a $15 option.  If you don’t want a mug, the pen will be shipped in a heavy kraft tube.  I use shredded chipboard (boxes from the grocery store for example) or balled up newspaper as packing material instead of bubble wrap.

Good Morning!

It’s that time again and I am very happy to announce two winners this month.  First winner for May is David P, who got #10.  David gets a $225 credit towards a custom Newton Pen.

Second winner – the winner of the Thomas Hall Shinobi-

is Andrew C.!  I picked from 1-12 (months of the year) and got 2 for February, and then picked from 1-40 from February’s entries, and #7 was picked.  I used Random.org for all number picking.

Thanks again to all of you for all the donations and postcard purchases.  We raised $780 in the month of May, for a total of $6280 this year!  We’re giving out 6 one thousand dollar scholarships.  And the local paper printed a blurb about our scholarships!  So cool!  The two names they didn’t print were kids from outside of Arkansas.

So now it’s June and it’s time to start fundraising for a new academic year.  You can contribute to the scholarship fund by purchasing postcards from here or by making donations.

New postcards are now available!!  Check em out!  Names of the artists, or the school they’re from, printed on the front of each card.

City Series 2 from our friend Michelle Leung’s husband.  These are from all over Japan.

Abstract Series – all student art

Set 2016 3 – student and donated art

If you have any questions please send them to me via [email protected]

Thanks!!

Hi Everybody, it’s time to announce the winners for the 2016 Newton Pens Scholarships!

We had 19 people submit applications and 13 volunteers read and score them.  Thank you all so much for your time and work.

The winners are Brad Foster from Auborn High School in Rockrod, Illinois; Taylor Preston from Lakeside High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas; Caleigh Currington from Mountain Pine High School in Mountain Pine, Arkansas; Colton Denman from McKinney North High School in McKinney, Texas; Steven Garner from Mountain Pine High School in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, and Marci Taylor, also from Mountain Pine High School in Mountain Pine, Arkansas.

Congrats to you all!  I’ll be in touch with you regarding getting the money to your future colleges.

To help raise more money for these and future scholarships you can purchase postcards or simply make a donation.

Thanks!  If you have any questions or comments, please send me a note – [email protected]

 

 

Hi Everybody!  It’s time to announce the winner of the free custom pen for April!  This month we had 43 entries, and from those the winner is #33.  Congrats to Rodrigo!

We have raised $5499.82 so far for scholarships this year, $367.81 of that just this month.  We’re so close to $6,000 again!  Thank you all so much for your participation.

We’re only a couple of weeks away from announcing the scholarship recipients, too.  In all we’ve received 19 applications from students.  Fundraising will go on through the entire month of May though, so keep on buying those postcards and sending those donations.

Remember, to enter the drawing and to help support the scholarship fund, all you have to do is buy a set of postcards, or you can enter for free by following the rules here.

Remember, by purchasing postcards you are automatically entered to win Thomas Hall’s first Shinobi in a grand drawing to be held at the end of May.

As always, if you have any questions about any of this at all, please send me an email.

Hey Everybody,

I’ll be at the Atlanta Pen Show this weekend.  I won’t be answering many emails from Thursday through Tuesday morning.

I’ll also have a new model to announce.  Maybe two.

Hope you can make it to the show if you’re close by.

Thanks!

Hi Everybody!  It’s time to announce the winner of the free custom pen for March!  This month we had 60 entries, and from those the winner is #34.  Congrats to Krista!  Since I did promise two winners last month thanks to the cool donation from Karas Kustoms, the other winner will be #33.  Congrats to Dominique!  Please send me an email to work out your prizes.  (Celeste, #46, asked that I pick somebody else)

We have raised $5132.01 so far for scholarships this year, $767.41 of that just this month.  Thank you all so much for your participation.

Remember, to enter the drawing and to help support the scholarship fund, all you have to do is buy a set of postcards, or you can enter for free by following the rules here.

And just to keep you all updated on the applications, so far I’ve received 16 applications from students.  I could still use a few volunteers to help read and score the essays if any of you are interested.  Shoot me an email and we can talk about it.  Thanks!

Remember, by purchasing postcards you are automatically entered to win Thomas Hall’s first Shinobi in a grand drawing to be held at the end of May.

As always, if you have any questions about any of this at all, please send me an email.

 

 

The deadline to apply for our Newton Pens Scholarships is coming to a close.  If you want to apply, or you know a high school student who could use a little financial help, now is the time to do it.  As long as I get your essay emailed to me by the deadline listed, April 1st, your application packet can be a few days late.

If you have ANY questions about it, please email me.  [email protected]

 

Thanks!

 

 

If you have a Shinobi, Prospector, or Breaker, and you find the nib isn’t lining up with the proper side of the barrel anymore, it could be caused by a couple of things:

1. Over tightening the section into the barrel, or over tightening the cap to the barrel.
2. Taking the nib unit out every time you clean it and eventually wearing out the threads on the nib unit.

On older pens, I tried to compensate for thread wear by working the nib unit into the section several times, and I did the same with the section into the barrel, before finishing the pen.  Doing this helped to eliminate misalignment later on, but I never know how much torque people may apply to their pens when putting them back together.

To avoid misalignment be sure not to over tighten the section into the barrel, and do not unscrew your nib unit for cleaning.  It really isn’t necessary, and with pens where alignment is important to the look of the pen, could eventually cause misalignment.

If you do have misalignment issues, what I can do is send you an ebonite nib unit.

Ebonite nib units

I’m providing ebonite nib units with all Shinobi, Prospector, and Breaker pens from now on (April 2020), or as long as I’m able to keep buying them.

This allows the nib and feed to be oriented in any position so that the top of the nib lines up with the pen barrel in just the right way.  I do not recommend pulling nib and feed for regular cleaning as this might result in a loose fit, and a drippy or poor writing pen.  I don’t recommend pulling the converter unless it breaks b/c the fit between nib unit nipple and converter is extremely tight.  In fact I have to sand the nipple down a little so a converter will even fit on it.  This is a very thin area and might possibly maybe break if you’re not extremely careful.

The more I’ve used these housings the less likely I think it will be that you could break the nipple off unless you’re very heavy handed or have an accident.

Again – I don’t recommend you take these apart unless it’s completely necessary, or the converter fails.