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New Trim

Hi everybody,

I’ve been working on designing some trim for my pens, and I think I’m pretty happy with what I’ve come up with. I’ll be adding these to more of my pens, and they’re of course available on custom pens as well.

These are rhodium plated brass. I’ve got gold plated coming in about a month. Solid bronze or sterling are also options.

I’ve got a clip in the works, too.

Over the years I’ve made lots of clips, one inspired by the old Montblanc 139, and a few simpler ones, but I’m really liking this one.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks

Fountain Pen Day – 20% discount on everything in the store!

Hey Everybody!

It’s Fountain Pen Day 2022, so 20% off everything in the store till midnight Central time tonight. That gives you about 10 1/2 hours.

[email protected]

Thanks!

Good news, bad news, and a give away and coupon.

(give away and coupon info below)
Well, good news and bad news.

First the good – I have a new cap ring I plan to start putting on some of my pens, and it’s available as an option on custom orders (I think it looks so cool!).

And for the bad – I built a new computer last night (mostly for Blender, the old Dell I had would crash and lock up a lot while modelling) and it’s great! BUT… when backing up everything, my entire email database got corrupted, so most of the last 10 years (almost 23 gb) is gone. I have some of 2020 and 2021, but all the way back to 2012 is gone. I’m still working on it, and hopefully will get things back up, but it’s not looking good. 🙁

So, to make myself feel better, let’s do a GIVE AWAY! And a 50% off coupon. 2 things. It’s Wednesday after all.

Tell us about some bad news you’ve had recently – lost/corrupted computer files, broke down car, misplaced keys, or phone dropped in the toilet. I’ll pick a couple winners in a couple of days. 🙂

Please email to [email protected] with questions.

New items on ebay – Instagram Disabled

Hey Everybody!

New pens up on eBay! Really good stuff in there this time.

Remember, every penny goes towards scholarships for high school students going to college. 🙂

https://www.ebay.com/usr/snennewton

Aaaaand… my Instagram account was disabled for some reason. No idea what’s going on. Hopefully it’ll be back up soon.

Thanks!

Shawn

Dallas Pen Show – Piston Fillers – and Prospectors

Getting ready for the Dallas Pen show next weekend. If you can make it, we’d love to see you.

I’ll be bringing 4 new piston fillers with me.

And LOTS of Prospectors. This is the most of this pen I’ve made at any one time before. I’ll have small, medium, and large sizes with me. The larges will all be set up to take #8 nibs.

These have all been sanded at this point.

I still have a lot to do with the large size pens.

Have a great week!

Shawn

Piston Fillers

So I mentioned a couple months back that I’m not going to be making piston units from scratch anymore, but there’s a gentleman in the UK making piston units that are damn good. So here we are –

As always, you can get in touch with me by email or commenting here – [email protected]

50% off coupons!

Comment below to win a huge discount!

edit: Congrats to Francisco! And thank you all so much for your stories. I really enjoyed them.

Tell us about your first pen. Do you still have it? Do you still use it? Why did you pick THAT pen?

My first fountain pen was given to me by my wife Elizabeth. It was a Sheaffer No Nonsense fine point (stub/italic) from Hobby Lobby for Valentine’s Day back in 2010. Before that I didn’t really know what a fountain pen was and had never used one. My only memory was from Tom and Jerry where Jerry squirts Tom with ink.

I used that pen UP. I don’t have it anymore, but it got me started in this community. 🙂