Author: newtonpens

Scholarship Time

I have my very own high school senior this year, and what I’m learning is that I’m way too late in the game compared to other scholarships.  So I’m opening up applications RIGHT NOW, and will take them until Jan. 5th of 24.

So check it out-

Scholarship Application – Rules and Info

Send it in.

If you want to help us read and score essays, please get in touch

[email protected]

If you know some kids who need some money, send them our way!

If you have any questions, please ask.

Thanks!

Shawn

 

Weekly roundup 2 weeks late?

Hey y’all!

I’ll get some scholarship pens up on ebay soon, but until then, you can always check out what’s new in my shop-

Everything

After the Dallas show I’ve been sort of getting back into the swing of things around here – again (same after every show isn’t it?) – and finally made a little video that I thought I had made years ago.

So here it is, for all of you who’ve forgotten, and all of you new to the hobby (welcome!), How To Fill Your Converter Fountain Pen.

See ya next time!

(and my next show is the Arkansas Show in March)

Dallas 2023

Hey Everybody!

I hope you’re all well.

I just got back from the Dallas Pen show and it was a great one.

I also had a raffle at my table, giving away 2 pens.  Winners picked here-

 

And while I didn’t have a lot of time to take pics, I did take a couple of quick videos both mornings.  🙂

 

 

 

I don’t know how many of you are in the Central Arkansas area, but our pen club meets each month-

Our monthly Arkansas Pen Club meeting will be NEXT Thursday, October 12th, at Corky’s restaurant in West Little Rock. We’ll be meeting starting at 6pm and everyone is welcome.  You do not have to RSVP or call ahead or anything like that.  Show up and we’ll be happy to have you.

This month we’ll have show and tell.  Bring in your newest penquisitions to show off.  After the Dallas Pen Show this weekend I hope to see some new stuff!
I’ll also bring in a pen to raffle off.  If you want to win you have to be there.

Saturday, October 14th, Vanness Pens is having an open house.

They will have free samples of unreleased ink, show you how to use those wax sticks AND we can pass around pens😁

I’ll be bringing some pens to this event, too, and raffling one off.  🙂

We still have a few bottles of our custom-made Cossatot Rapids green shimmer ink – made by Vanness. You can contact Tim Joiner to purchase – [email protected]

You can see ink samples here.

You can visit our Instagram page here
and our Facebook page here

Hope to see you at Pen Club!
Thanks!
Shawn Newton

It’s not Sunday! Here’s a video anyways.

I finally finished the enclosure!

And I’m currently getting ready for the Dallas Pen Show at the end of the month.  So if you’ll be around, you should come say hi!

I’ll get some new pens uploaded to ebay very soon for the scholarship fund raising, so keep your eyes open for that in the next day or two.

And don’t forget about our awesome Ghost pen that we’re making with Jamison Odone.

Thanks!

The Ghost Pen! Get ready for Halloween y’all!

The Ghost pen is now available for pre-order! This medium-sized Majestic, made from a matte white ghostly acrylic, is paired up with rhodium plated trim with artwork made by Jamison Odone.

From the artist: The illustrations on the clip are evocative of 18th century New England gravestones. They are memento mori-a reminder of our impermanence.

These numbered pens will start at $395, or $505 if you want a solid gold nib. Numbers given will be in the order they were purchased. (Shipping is fully insured, and price depends on your location)

You can pre-order here! (if you want it buffed and shiny, let me know in the purchase notes – no extra cost)

I’m taking pre-orders this week only, and can have the first 10 shipped by the first or second week of October.  After that, I’ll take orders until the end of October, and then we’ll never make these again.  So this is a time limited and numbered release.

If you have any questions please ask. Thanks!

 

 

And check out the back of the clip!  RIP 2023!

Scholarships auctions – and building a new enclosure for my old CNC

Hi Everybody!

Hope you’re enjoying your weekend and Happy Labor Day!

It’s not a day off for me, just a slightly slower day.  🙂  I was thinking the other day about this- and I don’t think I’ve ever done anything but work on Labor Day (except when I was teaching, but we might have had mandatory PD?? – I don’t remember).  When I was a kid my parents both worked (Turkey day and Xmas were the only 2 days a year they were guaranteed off) and I don’t think I ever knew anybody who did anything special on this day…

So for the last few years I have been absolutely embarrassed any time somebody came to the shop, even friends and family, b/c of the state of my old CNC enclosure.  It started off like this with this absolutely USELESS flappy door over the chuck…

Here in December 2018, after only a solid month or so of owning it, I had wrapped plastic all over it to keep coolant from going EVERYWHERE.

By May 2019 I upgraded to some plexi and it looked prettier…

But it didn’t look pretty for long.

Sept 2021

And here I am TEARING IT APART.  🙂  Finally.

I’ll put together another video for next week so you can see it all finished up.  It’s turned out way better than I thought it would, though if I were starting over I’d do it diferently and better.  X)

 

 

Exhausted Sunday… too hot….

It’s been miserable the last few days.  I built a thing this four day weekend and just barely got it done earlier today.  I mean by the skin of my teeth.  🙂
Not like there was a time line though.  X)  But it was 100+ degrees each day I was working – thankfully in the shade.  But I’m still worn out from it.

I’ll share more about that next weekend with another video.

Today I want to share a new part I made for a customer who’s pen broke.

And of course, who could forget about the scholarship auctions?  🙂

(pens shown below)