Newton Pens now offers the larger size pens with #8 nibs. They come in 18k gold, two tone fine, medium, or broad, with any grind that you like. They are $200 each.

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…

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…

I just finished, and that means last night, my first group order.  This was made for the New Mexico Pen Collectors Club.  I made 14 pens in all. And here they are.  🙂 Made from alien snot acrylic. They are…

  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…

#19 Won!  Congrats! Sold 5 more last night! That brings the total up to $260 plus donated money and my part from pen sales! $90. That makes the total raised so far $350! Thanks everybody! Update!  Just sold 5 more! …

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…

So recently I set out to name some of my more popular, and most often requested, styles of pens, to try to make it easier for people to order from me.  It could also act as a starting point –…

Here’s one I’m doing for the New Mexico Pen Collectors Club. These are all going to be pocket pens.

My first experiment with threading.  And it was good!  🙂  I love my new lathe. Now to master it, then double and quad start threads.  🙂

It’s that time again – and here’s the newest pen for the .  It’s made from a celluloid that was given to me about a year ago, and I haven’t been sure what I wanted to do with it until…

Here’s a shot of the entire shop (mostly) after all has been set up and organized pretty well.  Little desk at bottom left was made with scraps of my old work bench – has nib tuning/grinding stuff and a little…

That’s right! I got the metal lathe going! And it’s freaking awesome! No idea what I’m talking about? Then read this great page all about metal lathes (view article here) so you can understand why I’m so excited. I have…

Yeeha!  I gave the two scholarships out tonight.  I only stuttered once when I lost my place, but I did great!  😀  My hands were shaking like MAD, but nobody could see that behind the podium.  That felt really good…

About to go fill it up with oil and turn it on.  🙂

It’s still in the driveway – I have a friend coming over soon to help me roll it inside. edit:  Got it in!  Used a bunch of cut schedule 40 PVC and just rolled it in.  Was easier than we…

I’ve received all the scholarship applications and sorted through them, discarded the incomplete, and now have only three to review.  I’ve given out copies of the essays to ten of the teachers I work with and we’re working on narrowing…

Well, the scholarship money has been transferred to the school and all the applications have come in. I’m going to spend this week with the other teachers reading through them all and picking the 2 or 4 most deserving. There…

So my giant metal lathe will be here Wednesday afternoon, and I just got finished cleaning up in the shop.  Sunday afternoon and then a few more hours tonight.  It took forever to put all those blanks back up there…

38!!! Congrats to Juan A.!!  You’ve won a pen!

I just got word that… The winner of This Year’s Pen Drawing is: Ticket #1006 Erick F (efchem)! Erick wins the Newton Custom Pen! Congrats to Erick! We appreciate everyone’s contribution, and involvement! Shawn will work with Erick on the…

Tonight’s the night!  If you want to get in on this Newton Pen then do so before 9pm central US time.  That gives  you 11 hours! I’ll make an announcement tonight.  🙂 And don’t forget the drawing at The Fountain…

all you have to do is send $10 check or money order or with paypal to [email protected] and I’ll assign you a number based on the order you buy in.  If you’re #10 to buy a ticket, then you’ll be…

My wife was busy with pen wraps today and I’m very pleased with them.  I can’t wait to see them with strings and buttons.  🙂 And my finger – still a bit sensitive, and hurts if I bang it on…

Only a couple nights left! Drawing is May 3rd – 9pm Central US time. Get in while you still can. 🙂

Money pulled from paypal and a check made out to my school.  This is going to help a couple kids out with college.  I’m so proud to be able to give this.  🙂 Thanks everybody!

Cleaning plastic junk away from the tool rest is not important.  For over a year I’ve been brushing away bits of plastic junk with my finger.  This morning my finger got cut. Caught between the turning blank and the tool…

We just reached $2000!  That means the scholarship is A GO! All the money raised after that will go towards next year’s scholarship.  Remember, that one will be available nationwide.  I’ll put up an application on my website to download…

New from Newton Pens! Pouches! All of your pens will now come in little home made pouches.  My wife has told me for months that if I bought her a sewing machine she would make pouches for your pens.  And…