Author: newtonpens

I just finished, and that means last night, my first group order.  This was made for the New Mexico Pen Collectors Club.  I made 14 pens in all.

And here they are.  🙂

Made from alien snot acrylic.
They are 4 3/8″ closed, 4″ open, and 6 1/8″ posted.

 

It’s that time again – and here’s the newest pen for the .  It’s made from a translucent gray acrylic with white stripes twisting around it.  I call it Gray Ghost.  🙂

 

I’ll use a random number picker and will have it pick from the numbers available.  So if only 32 people buy tickets, the number picker will pick from 1-32.

So if all that sounds good then you can buy as many as you want payable through paypal to newtonpensscholarships@gmail.com.  Be sure not to send payment to my other email address.

If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to ask.  [email protected] OR [email protected]

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.
Shawn

And remember, every custom pen you buy will have a portion of the money sent directly into the scholarship fund to join the money made from raffling pens off each month.  This will help to grow the scholarship and help more students achieve their college goals.  Each scholarship recipient will get a pen and a couple bottles of ink of course. 
$20 from each sale will be sent to the scholarship fund.  That is instead of making twins of each pen.  I think this is a more worthwhile cause.  😉

And remember that the scholarship is available nationwide.  Here’s the application. 

#19 Won!  Congrats!

Sold 5 more last night! That brings the total up to $260 plus donated money and my part from pen sales! $90. That makes the total raised so far $350!
Thanks everybody!

Update!  Just sold 5 more!  😀

$400!!!  We’re off to such a great start this year.  I can’t wait to start getting those applications in!

This one was named by the young lady who received a scholarship.  She chose to name it after herself.  It reminds me of the ruffs worn around the necks of some men and women in late 16th century England.

Here is The Elizabethan.

So recently I set out to name some of my more popular, and most often requested, styles of pens, to try to make it easier for people to order from me.  It could also act as a starting point – “I want this pen, but with these mods.”

After a lot of thought and reading about Isaac Newton and all of his work, and the scientific work and research of many many others, and not really coming up with any good ideas, it was suggested on my facebook page that I name the pens after the scholarship recipients.  …Brilliant!  So that’s what I decided to do.  This is all for the kids after all, so what better way to name the pens, than after the kids.

After giving out two scholarships May 20 at graduation, speaking in front of a couple thousand people, my hands shaking so badly they looked blurry to me (thank goodness the podium hid that), I got a name from one of the two students.  I had told him to pick out one of the pens and to name it.  It could be his first or last name, a nickname, whatever…

Here I present to you –

The Gibby.

 

 

Here’s one I’m doing for the New Mexico Pen Collectors Club.

These are all going to be pocket pens.

My first experiment with threading.  And it was good!  🙂  I love my new lathe.

Now to master it, then double and quad start threads.  🙂

It’s that time again – and here’s the newest pen for the .  It’s made from a celluloid that was given to me about a year ago, and I haven’t been sure what I wanted to do with it until today.

will end June14.

 

 

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.
Shawn

OH!  And since summer is here, every pen you buy will have a portion of the money sent directly into the scholarship fund to join the money made from raffling pens off each month.  This will help to grow the scholarship and help more students achieve their college goals.  Each scholarship recipient will get a pen and a couple bottles of ink of course.  🙂
$20 from each sale will be sent to the scholarship fund.

I also mentioned that I wanted to make the scholarship available nationwide.  Here’s the application.  🙂

 

 

Here’s a shot of the entire shop (mostly) after all has been set up and organized pretty well.  Little desk at bottom left was made with scraps of my old work bench – has nib tuning/grinding stuff and a little laptop.  Metal lathe and wood lathe on right.  Wood lathe is pretty much just being used for the buffing wheel now.  Makes quick work of polishing those pens.  It’s such a pleasure to work in here now.

The next few days we’ll be gone camping.  So I won’t be answering emails until Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

I also uploaded a couple new videos of the metal lathe in action here.

School is out, Summer is here, and I’m going to be one busy pen making fool.  🙂  I’m very excited to get some work done.

Have a great summer everybody!