Ever drop a nib? Bend it to uselessness? Don’t toss it. Send it on back and I should be able to fix it up for you. It may not look as nice as it did when new, but it will write. Here are a couple I straightened up back in late 2011. Pics of mangled […]
Here you can see the various parts of a pen and the names for each part. This may help when we’re talking about your pen. The nipple on the back of the housing is the part that the converter fits to. I’m often asked to make pens with vintage nibs to take converters but the […]
Here’s the next pen up. I can’t believe I didn’t mention before – if you win the and this pen doesn’t strike your fancy, you can have a custom made up just for you. 😉 It’s a slim 45 Series Elizabethan with a #6 nib. These pens are JUUUUST big enough for the #6 […]
#4 got it! Congrats to whoever is #4!! Yeeha! You get a pen and a kid gets some help going to college! Thanks!! That’s right – I haven’t even made it yet. 🙂 The section is black phenolic resin, and the rest of the pen is up to you. I was thinking of a […]
My friend Jere is just having too much fun making these boxes for me. Check it out. One that pulls apart in the middle and one suede lined with a glass top for display of your treasured pens. 🙂
I won’t be going to the Dallas Pen Show this year, but if you can, then you should. I had a blast last time and made some great contacts. I can’t believe it’s already been a year though. Being there was one of those right place, right time moments, and I wound up in Pen […]
I found some new resins to offer! These are pretty cool, too. One is an ivory imitation — Extra charge – $45 – pricey but pretty. The other is phenollic resin – a material like you can find on another micarta type pen on the market. 🙂 Extra charge for these? None at all. Only […]
So far, on the few engravings I’ve made, I’ve been using my old printmaking burins. Probably not anywhere near the best tools for the job, but they work. And when all you have is all you have, you make due. I had been reading around about engraving on the net, and have been looking at […]
I can’t believe how lucky I am to be friends with such an awesome carpenter. This guy just loves doing what he does. I ask him to make me pen boxes and he gives me THESE!!
Every now and then somebody sends me a pen with a broken part to see if I can fix or make a new part. Here’s an Ancora that I was sent. Customer asked if I could make an entire new section. Sure why not? 🙂