Hi Everybody! I hope you’re having a great summer so far. I just received the newest set of postcards to start the fundraising off. The old set is in the top row, and I still have 25 sets for sale. …

The question I’m asked the most is regarding the size of my pens. Here is a guide with lots of comparison photos. Diameter – Measured at the barrel threads. Slim – .45″ mm thick at threads with .427″ mm thick…

This last year in school I had been talking with one of my students about making pens and he had been working in Vo-Tech class (machine shop?) to make his own pen.  He had a few barrels and caps and…

I had a couple visitors come by the Shop in April and I think a few of you may know them. Leigh Reyes and Thomas Hall came by, Leigh all the way from the Philippines, to see a pen being…

Wow I’m a day late!  I can’t believe it completely slipped by me.  I was so sure that tonight was the last day of April.  Yikes. Well, the winner is, picked by Random.org, #21!  Congratulations Beth! Now the hard part,…

And the applications are all in!  I received 30 in all this year.  I’m excited to read through them all, too. Eleven people have volunteered to read the essays to help pick scholarship recipients.  If you’re interested in reading to…

We took a trip to Garvin Woodland Gardens today. If you’re ever visiting Hot Springs, you should take a few hours to go walk the trails at the Gardens.  Really beautiful place and enough trails to get away from any…

The Arkansas Pen Show was this weekend and I had a blast.  We had great traffic through the door.  I was so busy meeting new friends and talked with so many people that I didn’t even think about using the…

I have a lot of art I want to sell.  All of the profits – that is, everything except shipping costs – will go into the scholarship fund.  First though – I want to mention that the deadline for the…

When I first started making pens, I organized them by shape, size, and how the cap fit against the body when it was closed. After a while I decided to come up with some proper names to make it easier…

Want to win a custom pen and help some lucky deserving students with their college expenses? Postcards are for sale again to raise money for the Newton Pen’s Scholarship. So far we’ve raised 3886.64!  Thank you all so much! There’s…

It’s that time of year again to start getting applications filled out, essays written, and everything turned in to me so I can have my awesome volunteers start reading and grading essays to pick recipients. So visit this page to…

#32 won!  Congrats to… Ted!  I’ll send you an email now and we can start with your new pen design. Thanks everybody!  We raised $3723.00 total so far! (Sorry it took me so long to make this announcement – had…

Only a couple of days left.  32 participants so far. If you’ve already got a set of these post cards you could always have them sent to friends or family as a gift.  I’d be happy to do that.  And…

Hi Everybody, Want to win a custom pen and help some lucky deserving students with their college expenses? Since this is the time for holidays, I’m going to run this postcard sale/fund raiser period for three weeks, for both November…

6 13/16″ closed, 5 7/8″ open. Resting on an awesome gray platter I bought my wife for Christmas (don’t tell her) at Riley Art Glass in Hot Springs.  I took my art club kids there for a field trip to…

Number 47 got it! Congrats! And thanks everybody for participating! We raised almost exactly $500! Fantastic!

(this is an old sale – all items are gone) I usually don’t keep much extra stock around.  I get orders and make those pens and that’s usually about it.  Before the Washington DC and Dallas shows I took a…

Want to win a custom pen and help some lucky deserving students with their college expenses? Enter to win a custom Newton Pen for the Month of October to support the Newton Pens Scholarship!  So far we’ve raised $2969 with those…

Here are some snaps from the 2014 Dallas Pen Show.  I had a great time, met some great people, made some sales and commissions (yay!), and can’t wait till the next show.  Somebody said to me over the weekend, “You’ve…

It’s just a bit after 9pm, so time to pick a winner using random.org, 1-59, and the winner is… drum roll, please…. #9!  Nine is the winner of a free custom pen!  I don’t have the list of names in…

Well the first set of post cards is nearly out, so I’ve ordered a second set.  School has just started so there’s not a lot for me to pick from, but I think I have some nice images chosen. I’ve…

It’s that time again ladies and gentlemen! Want to win a custom pen and help some lucky deserving students with their college expenses? Enter to win a Newton Pen for the Month of September to support the Newton Pens Scholarship! …