newtonpens

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…

So I finally got to a comfortable spot in my classes where I could start giving away those fountain pens I bought this summer.  I took the first 10 minutes or so of class to have everybody circle up and…

A little while back I made this Mardi Gras Mayhem pen and about five minutes after finishing it the cap wouldn’t stay on.  It would thread on – sort of – but you could slip it right off. So why…

So here I am with LOTS of hair. The orange thing is a t-shirt that my boy outgrew. I cut it up to keep the hair out of my face while working at the lathe. So why all the hair?…

I got a triple broad Pelikan M1000 nib in the mail today. I’ve never used a 3B nib before. WOW.  Here it is in my Indian made eyedropper I bought about 2 years ago.  It came with the medium nib…

I ordered some business cards the other day and just received a note saying they shipped. Yay! This is the front and back of the card.

Okay – so school starts back on the twentieth, which means I’m going to be very busy with school and not as busy with making pens.  I’ll still be able to get a few knocked out every weekend unless something…

I can do it now, folks. If you want a button filler instead of a C/C just indicate as much on the ordering page. Getting a pen with a button filler will be $100 extra.

So today while working on a pen I had a bit of a mishap.  Well – plain and simply – I screwed up.  No big deal – happens every now and then.  I decided to turn that oops into an…

So how big are these pens? When I list diameter of a pen, it’s at the barrel threads, where the cap screws on. So here’s a list of my basic pen sizes with the approximate maximum section diameter as well.…