Have made a few changes to the place – hopefully will be a bit easier to navigate.  Please let me know what you think – if it’s good or bad – any suggestions at all. Thanks!

Well, I hope I’m ready for the tax man. I spent very nearly the entire day going through every receipt, invoice, bank statement, and expense note I could find, adding up all my expenses and income from the year.  I’m…

Got a photo from Vanness Pen in Little Rock, Arkansas today of the latest recipient of one of my pens. 😀 Yay!!

Happy Holidays everybody! THanks for all you’ve given to the scholarship and for making this such a successful year for me.  When I started this I had no idea it would grow like it has. Starting after the new year,…

Update: 1 Jan 2013 And the winner was #3!  🙂  Thanks everybody! I think it’s time for another . This time things will be a bit different.  I don’t have any pens made up to offer, so this one will…

I was contacted a little while back about taking a broken Minerva piston filler and saving the section and piston mechanism and making a new barrel and cap to go with it. I don’t have much done yet, but it…

After careful consideration there will be a slight increase in my pen prices for 2013. Prices for each size will go up by $25 each. On the bright side, I am excited to introduce a new slim line of pens! …

UPDATE:  The  winners are 185 (180) and 41 (38).  Congrats!!  😀 This time I think I’m going to do something a little different.Instead of having just one winner, we’ll have two.  🙂 The cumberland button filler is gone, so that…

Here are two of the latest pens going out. The green one was a custom request and the button filler has been fitted with an XF silver nib and silver clip.

Got a picture of the hair cut from one of my students.  I was hoping for more photos – but this is the only one I got.  It’s pretty good though. This is mid cut.  He had to leave when…

57 is the number picked, so 55 gets it!  🙂 Congratulations!  And thanks to everybody who participated! Ends 9pm Central US time, November 18th. So the last fund raising was a huge success.  You all contributed $427 after paypal fees. …

Finally making something super slim for the folks who prefer it.  🙂 This pen measures in at 11mm thick at the threads with a 10mm thick section. Shown here side by side with my small model and 12mm thick section…

They’re here!  I ordered a bunch of pens from fountainpenrevolution.com about two weeks ago with the money raised from my first raffle. Thanks so much to everybody who helped with that raffle and made this purchase possible.  I’ll start giving…

I made a bulb filler. Which means I have a new filling system to add to my list of options when you order a pen. Holds about 2ml of ink. Update: 3ml of ink.  I sealed with shellac and put…

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…