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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…