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Engraving!

Engraving!  This is my first piece, practice, but it was so much fun!  Can’t wait to do more. This is from a picture of a bonsai tree I found on the net. I used a couple of different types of…

2014 Scholarship #2

#9 got it! Congrats! And thanks to everybody SO MUCH for participating. This scholarship is set to reach more kids than the first. Hopefully every year I’ll be able to continue increasing the number of people helped with this money.

Always more work…

Sometimes when making your pens I goof up a bit.  And by a bit I mean that I have to start ALL THE WAY OVER.  😀  It makes for good practice, even if it’s sometimes quite frustrating.  Here are a…

The Last 10

I’m creating a new page that I’ll update as often as I upload pics of pens.  It’s going to be a page where you can go to see the last 10 or so pens I’ve made. There will be a…

2014 Scholarship Give Away #2

  It’s that time again – and here’s the newest pen for the .  It’s made from a translucent gray acrylic with white stripes twisting around it.  I call it Gray Ghost.  🙂   I’ll use a random number picker…

Pens with Kids.

I stopped in to Vanness this morning and was poking around behind the counter, looking at inks, and some kids came in with a lady who was exploring the cake side of the store.  The kids were exploring the pen…

Second named.

This one was named by the young lady who received a scholarship.  She chose to name it after herself.  It reminds me of the ruffs worn around the necks of some men and women in late 16th century England. Here…