Author: newtonpens

Sick

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.  🙁

Warranty Work

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.  😉

2012 Dallas Pen Show

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!

 

I GOT A NOTE! :)

All this time of making and giving out pens, working (and it is work) to get notes FROM the kids to say thank you to the person who bought their twin pen, I had no idea how much it would warm my heart to get a note of my own from a kid.

It wasn’t a fountain pen though, but a big chunky pencil…
A guy emailed me asking what I thought of those big chunky pencils, that he wanted one for his daughter, and I had one laying around, no plans for it, that I had just made, so I told him to give me his postal and I’d send it down for her to have.

I got this note in the mail today.  VERY cool.  😀

Contest – for a pen!

So with all this business about selling raffle tickets to cut my hair, it’s been suggested a couple times that I should off one of my pens.  I think that sounds pretty awesome – so here it is.

UPDATE! That’s not it. If this yellow and purple button filler doesn’t do it for you – you’ll have the option to have a custom pen made instead. Your choice! And only for the cost of one . Of course you can buy more if you’d like. 😉

For $10 you buy a – when you send payment (via paypal) write a number in the comments section.  1-100.  I’ll use one of those random number generators out there on the interweb to pick a number, and whoever picks the closest number will win the pen!

How do you know you didn’t pick the same number as 10 other people?  I’m not sure – post it in the replies area below?  If we do end up with a couple people who pick the same number, we can have a quick redo where those two or three people each pick a new number and then I do the number picker again.

Sound good?  If so you can send $10 to [email protected] via paypal.

Where does the money go?  I’ll buy more pens for my students.  I gave away almost all 80 pens yesterday (and the rest today) and this money will go towards buying more pens for my students.  Any extra money will go towards art class supplies.

I think that’s it.  If you have any questions or suggestions please shoot me an email – [email protected]

So how did the other teachers react to all the fountain pens?  Well, my seventh graders are enjoying the pens a little too much.  I think some ink has taken flight.  8-(    Oh well, they’ll learn.

END TIME:  Let’s give it two weeks.  September 19 at 7pm, 9pm if I’m stuck in traffic or something silly, I’ll announce the winner on the blog.  🙂

Numbers picked so far. I’ll put them here for easy reference so you don’t need to dig through the responses. 🙂  Whoever gets closest without going over is the winner.
4 – 7 – 9 – 11 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 21 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 27 – 29 – 30 – 33 – 37 – 40 – 41 – 46 – 47 – 50 – 53 – 57 – 59 – 62 – 66 – 69 – 73 – 74 – 75 – 81 – 82 – 88 – 91 – 96