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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.…

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…