Making Pens and Changing Lives since 2012
They’re here! I ordered a bunch of pens from fountainpenrevolution.com about two weeks ago with the money raised from my first raffle.
Thanks so much to everybody who helped with that raffle and made this purchase possible. I’ll start giving these pens out as soon as I’ve tested and tuned them all. There’s only 76 – shouldn’t take TOO long. 😛
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Which means I have a new filling system to add to my list of options when you order a pen.
Holds about 2ml of ink.
Update: 3ml of ink. I sealed with shellac and put a different length tube. Much better now. Also made a new section for it.
Enter the raffle for a chance to win this pen! Funds go towards the Newton Pen Scholarship.
I do not do my own urushi finishes anymore and have no plans to do so in the future. Thanks.
One coat on all the pens tonight. I forgot how much impact this has on the appearance of the pen. One coat has already made such a huge difference!
I can’t wait to see them all finished.
Update: Oct 29 — The winner is #26! Congrats!
Here’s the first pen for Newton Pens Scholarship!
This cumberland button filler is 1/2″ thick at the threads, Closed – 5 1/2″ – Open 5″ – Posted 6 7/8″. Currently sports a fine nib, but I’ll put any size tip with any type of grind you’d like. See more pics here.
If this pen doesn’t tickle your fancy – you can opt to have a custom pen made up just for you. Any material I have in stock – c/c or button filler.
UPDATE:
Now this drawing can be for the button filler or for this new bulb filler!
If you won last time you may not enter this time. Please wait until the next go round. 😉
Where does the money go? Into a brand new bank account I set up just for this purpose. At the end of the school year I’ll gather that up and present it to a student. Still working out details on how to actually create the scholarship, but I have some promising leads.
I think that’s it. If you have any questions or suggestions please shoot me an email – [email protected]
END TIME: Let’s give it three weeks. November 4th at about 9pm.
Numbers picked so far:
5-13-14-15-19-23-24-26-32-33-37-44-47-53-56-57-58-64-69-77-84-85-87-99
Some more pictures.
I hate being sick. Strep has put me down this weekend – so that will put my production down for a couple of days. I may get lucky and feel better by Sunday. I’ll get plenty of couch and TV time in. 🙂 I love Netflix.
Worst part of being sick now is that it happened on my birthday. I’m 32. Couldn’t go on a date with my wonderful wife. 🙁
From Vanness.
http://www.facebook.com/vanness.pen
It looks like The Great Pumpkin threw up all over my lathe. 🙂
And some other photos…
Some pics of me being silly at the pen show…
Yep – sometimes it happens. A part breaks and needs to be taken care of.
This is one of my kickstarter pens. The barrel broke at the threads – customer said possibly due to over tightening of the cap onto the barrel. I think there may have been a bit of a gap between the section and inner cap, allowing for more stress on the barrel as well. The section broke while getting it and the piece of the barrel out of the cap. Oops. 😉 Either way – I made a new section and barrel. The barrel is a bit thicker at the threads, too. Shouldn’t have any more problems, but if so it’s covered. 😉
WOW had a great time and met lots of awesome people.
Sold a pen and bought a pen – an old Wahl I found at Sherrell Tyree’s table. She’s an awesome lady and gave me a great deal!
I probably spent too much time with Mike and Lisa from Vanness Pen Shop from Little Rock, Arkansas, but who can blame me? 😉 I had a good time visiting with Susan and John, the awesome folks from Pendemonium, the people from Toys from the Attic, Henry Simpole, another pen turner named George, and MANY many other really great people. Too many to list.
I got a chance to see many pens and look at fit and finish which on most is amazing, and on others… well, I was surprised at how poor it was.
Talked with the ladies from Pen World! Very cool! They might do a bit of a write up on me some time. They took a couple of my pens with them to take pictures of. I’m excited about that.
Also met a very nice kid who has started making his own ink! I bought a bottle of the Leviathan Green. Really really pretty stuff. If I had brought more money I would have bought all five colors. Scribal Work Shop’s Cryptid Inks.
Can’t wait to go again next year and I’m really excited for the Arkansas Show coming up in a few months!
