Author: newtonpens

Several items were donated for the Newton Pens Scholarship – go check it out to see if there’s anything there for you.  😉

Every penny made from these items will go directly into the scholarship account – which stands at $4066.29!
If you have any questions please do ask! 

First up!
18k Edison broad ground to stub.
$120 shipped to you CONUS.  $130 international.

Next up a couple of really cool titanium Big i Design pens.
Looks like they retail for $75 new, so let’s make them $70 shipped CONUS $80 international.  OBO.
http://www.bigidesig…d-titanium-pen/

Last – stainless steel PHX pen!
$25 shipped CONUS or $30 international.
http://www.bigidesig…come/phx-pen-2/
Leather wrap thing free with purchase. 

Hey everybody!

Sorry I’m late – was playing board games with the family.  🙂

According to http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/

 

And #48 gets it!

Congratulations to Daniel!

So it’s no secret to anybody who knows me.
I like green.
I have 6 or 7 green shirts I wear to school regularly, and a green pen I made myself, along with a couple of green pencils.

A while back I had my resin-pouring-friend Bob mix up a jade green for me – the pen at the top in the picture above.  I love it.  Reminds me of the vintage Sheaffer and Parker materials.

But the way those vintage materials change and get darker as they age is really cool, too, so I asked him to make up a darker green for me…

And I LOVE it.  It turned out SO well.  I can’t wait to get this pen finished.

Here it is side by side with the lighter “jade”.

I love all these custom resins.  If you have any ideas for a pen you’d like to have made, but you can’t seem to find just the right color, let me and Bob know, and we can try to mix it up for you.

Happy Holidays!
Shawn Newton

 

Hi Everybody,

I just want to say thanks for all of the participation in the so far – and remember there’s only three more days for the current one.  Two pens, one winner!

I also want to announce that I’m extending the deadline to turn in scholarship applications until March 1st of 2014 so more of you have time to get these in.  If you know a senior who could really use the extra few bucks to help them get started with college, let them know about this.  It’s open to anyone in the US.  Recipients’ schools will be contacted and money will be handed out once students are enrolled and attending.  Money can be spent on technology, food, books, gas, shoes, art supplies, car repairs, or whatever else they need to keep going.  🙂

http://newtonpens.wordpress.com/scholarship-application/

Thanks!

Happy Holidays!
15 – Dec 9th
21 – Dec 10th!
28 – Dec 13th
34 – Dec 16th
43 – Dec 17th
54 – Dec 19th
70 – Dec 20th!!
87 – Dec 24th – Tonight is the night!

And the winner chose this!

This month instead of one pen going out – there will be TWO to ONE winner.  So far you’ve all raised $3194 to give away to several lucky students!  Thank you all so much!  And the year is only half done!  😀

One pen made by myself, and the other a pen donated by a friend from FPN specifically for the scholarship.  Thanks!
One winner – two pens.

What will I be making?  I don’t know – that’s up to the winner.  The only restriction is that it needs to be made from one of these cool materials shown below.  Well – you don’t HAVE to pick one of these – but they sure are pretty.  🙂  If you do choose any of these, there are size restrictions due to the diameter of some of the rods.  We’ll discuss that once there’s a winner.  😉

Here they are…

First up – a couple of Italian acrylics.  Blue Cowrie and Venetian Gold.

Then some Sheaffer rods!  These are leftovers from the Balance II pens Sheaffer made in the late 90s.  Marbled Amber Glow, Marbled Cobalt Glow, and Jungle Green.

Sheaffer Tiger Eye.

I don’t know what to call these except awesome.  Black and white chunk casein, Tiffany casein, and yellow and green casein.  Or maybe tan and green?  There’s only a little bit of each of these and we’re limited with what can be made, but we’ll discuss that when somebody wins.  😉

And here’s one I think will look cool.  It’s a new black and sand ripple ebonite.  This can be paired with black, or with solid sand for really cool effect either way. 

And I even have a tiny bit of purple web celluloid left over.  🙂

What’s that second pen?  An Edison Pearl in purple web celluloid.

Very Cool!  Here it is.

It comes with a 1.1 two tone steel nib.  Just got word from Brian Gray – if you don’t want the 1.1, he’ll swap you nibs at no charge! Thanks Brian!

AND – another nib has been donated by the same wonderful guy who gave me this pen. So it will come with two nibs! The second is a .8 stub ground by Pendleton Brown.

Rules are the same as before –

The nib choice is totally up to the winner as well.  You can choose steel, any tip size, any grind, or 18k gold, any tip size, any grind.  The winner will have the option of taking the gold nib with the cost coming out of the  winnings, paying for the gold nib, or taking a steel nib.

 

 

If you have any questions or concerns please let me know and I’ll get back with you asap.
This purchase is not tax deductible.
Thanks!

It’s been a long time coming, but I finally did it.

I revamped most of the website.  The ordering process is a bit different, as is the layout of the model lineup.  I spent some time today splitting up the different styles into their own categories.

Check it out.  Everything is in the drop down menu titled The Newton Pens.

To order all you need to do is click on the model you like and fill out a short form beneath the images.

Hopefully streamlining everything like this will make browsing and ordering much easier.

Thanks for all your support over the last two years!

I’ve still got lots to add, so stay tuned.

Warmest regards,
Shawn

And the winner is…

#36!!!

Congrats to Danny!!

I took my art club on a field trip today and b/c of the funky rainy wet nasty weather the plans sort of changed around a bit on us – so it turned into time in the shop, then an awesome demo at Riley Brothers Glass studio, and then more time at the shop to finish the pen.  Once it was done we put names in a hat and somebody got to take it home!  🙂

So here it is – purple on purple.

A member of the Arkansas Pen Club asked me to make a stand for him.  He gave me his pen to figure dimensions for the tulip.  I’ve never considered myself much of a woodworker, but this morning I cut a piece off of a slab of some hardwood and fashioned this.

It’s for his Bexley PCA 2001 pen.

Ever drop a nib?  Bend it to uselessness?  Don’t toss it.  Send it on back and I should be able to fix it up for you.  It may not look as nice as it did when new, but it will write.

Here are a couple I straightened up back in late 2011.

Pics of mangled nibs by Bryant Greer.