newtonpens

So there was a thread on the internet a while back discussing these flat sheets of Chinese celluloid that’s out there. Well, a guy in Europe who makes pens bought some of that up and made a few rods from…

I no longer make or work with micarta style materials. Yep – Micarta.  Or at least a laminated fabric material. From April 2012. Okay – so I made some laminated denim with fiber glass resin from O’Reilly’s. It was about…

I do not do my own urushi finishes anymore and have no plans to do so in the future.  Thanks. —————————— I’m going to start offering urushi finish for some of my pens.  Ebonite for sure.  I still have a…

More practice with button fillers.  This is going to be fun.  🙂

I got asked today how big my oversize pens really are.  Hopefully this will help to give an idea of how big they are.  If you’d like an oversize pen photographed next to something different that you’re more familiar with,…

The kids are with Gramma and my wife is at work.  I’ve got a few orders but I’m waiting on materials to ship in so tonight I thought I’d play. A secret santa in Europe sent me a few sticks…

That was easy. Now that I’ve made one my students are going to be bugging me for them.  🙂  That’s okay though.

I’m in a lot of videos but you don’t get a very good look at me for the most part. I’m mostly pretty funny looking if I do say so myself. Here we are.  Hair long and shaggy.  I’m planning…

Got an order from Tennessee to make a couple small pens and have enjoyed these quite a bit.  It’s always fun turning new materials to see how they’ll turn out. And of course a new section.  Made the oversize yellow…