newtonpens

It’s talk like a pirate day apparently.  🙂 Anywho… thought I’d share some pics of a pretty green ebonite button filler I’m making. 🙂

Every now and then I get to see something really cool.  While at the Arkansas Pen Club meeting tonight, at Vanness Pen, I got to check out this Onoto prototype. Very cool!

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…

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…