I do not do my own urushi finishes anymore and have no plans to do so in the future.  Thanks. One coat on all the pens tonight.  I forgot how much impact this has on the appearance of the pen. …

Update: Oct 29 — The winner is #26!  Congrats! Here’s the first pen for Newton Pens Scholarship! This cumberland button filler is 1/2″ thick at the threads, Closed – 5 1/2″ – Open 5″ – Posted 6 7  Currently sports…

I hate being sick.  Strep has put me down this weekend – so that will put my production down for a couple of days.  I may get lucky and feel better by Sunday.  I’ll get plenty of couch and TV…

From Vanness.

It looks like The Great Pumpkin threw up all over my lathe.  🙂 And some other photos…

Some pics of me being silly at the pen show…

Yep – sometimes it happens.  A part breaks and needs to be taken care of. This is one of my kickstarter pens.  The barrel broke at the threads – customer said possibly due to over tightening of the cap onto…

WOW had a great time and met lots of awesome people. Sold a pen and bought a pen – an old Wahl I found at Sherrell Tyree’s table.  She’s an awesome lady and gave me a great deal! I probably…

It’s talk like a pirate day apparently.  🙂 Anywho… thought I’d share some pics of a pretty green ebonite button filler I’m making. 🙂

Every now and then I get to see something really cool.  While at the Arkansas Pen Club meeting tonight, at Vanness Pen, I got to check out this Onoto prototype. Very cool!

All this time of making and giving out pens, working (and it is work) to get notes FROM the kids to say thank you to the person who bought their twin pen, I had no idea how much it would…

So with all this business about selling raffle tickets to cut my hair, it’s been suggested a couple times that I should off one of my pens.  I think that sounds pretty awesome – so here it is. UPDATE! That’s…

So I finally got to a comfortable spot in my classes where I could start giving away those fountain pens I bought this summer.  I took the first 10 minutes or so of class to have everybody circle up and…

A little while back I made this Mardi Gras Mayhem pen and about five minutes after finishing it the cap wouldn’t stay on.  It would thread on – sort of – but you could slip it right off. So why…

So here I am with LOTS of hair. The orange thing is a t-shirt that my boy outgrew. I cut it up to keep the hair out of my face while working at the lathe. So why all the hair?…

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…

More practice with button fillers.  This is going to be fun.  🙂

I got asked today how big my oversize pens really are.  Hopefully this will help to give an idea of how big they are.  If you’d like an oversize pen photographed next to something different that you’re more familiar with,…

The kids are with Gramma and my wife is at work.  I’ve got a few orders but I’m waiting on materials to ship in so tonight I thought I’d play. A secret santa in Europe sent me a few sticks…

That was easy. Now that I’ve made one my students are going to be bugging me for them.  🙂  That’s okay though.

I’m in a lot of videos but you don’t get a very good look at me for the most part. I’m mostly pretty funny looking if I do say so myself. Here we are.  Hair long and shaggy.  I’m planning…