Your handmade pen is just like any other quality instrument, it needs occasional cleaning and maintenance. A pen is a bit unique, it gets handled every day, tossed, tucked away, bumped around and g ...

Are you responsible for finding that special corporate gift idea or employee gift idea?  It can be a real challenge to determine what gift to give a colleague, boss or retiree.  You wa ...

Your handmade fountain pen will need some regular maintenance to keep in tip top shape.  Since fountain pens use an ink that needs to flow from the ink reservoir to the nib, it needs to be clean ...

What makes something special? Is it knowing that it is unique? Is it the thought behind the the act of giving? Is it the act of collecting special items? Or is it knowing that someday someone will ho ...

The final shaping of the pen is performed with a skew. Care must be taken to ensure that the diameter of the pen matches the diameter of the bushings.   ...

The Designer pens have a wooden tenon that need to be turned to a smaller diameter that the center band will slip over. Care must be taken to turn the diameter correctly and to the right length. &nb ...

The walnut wood blank is now mounted on a lathe and the center of the blank is drilled out to accomodate a metal insert. Each half of the pen is drilled. Care must be taken not to damage the blan whi ...

For each grit of sandpaper, cross sanding must be perfomed. After sanding on the lathe with a speciific grit, the lathe is stopped and then sanding with the grain is performed to help remove sanding ...

There are a number of ways to make a handcrafted pen, each as different as the artist.  But, fundamentally, each artist ends up with a process that consists of selecting the materials, crafting ...

A high quality pen can be a great conversation piece.  But, it is still a writing instrument, and as such, should write well.  Take a fine-looking automobile, sure it looks nice, but h ...

While I consider handmade pens as art, the reason they are so beautiful must be credited to the wood from which they are made.  So, what, then makes a handcrafted pen art? For wooden pens, ...

I passionately believe and stand behind my product.  But, don't take my word for it.  Read what my wonderful customers have said about the pens that they have received. All of their comment ...

Asking an artist to pick their favorite medium or their favorite work of art is akin to asking a parent to choose which of their children is their favorite. Ok, I don't have any children, so I may be ...

When making a handmade pen, there are a lot of options available when selecting materials.  Wood, stone, acrylics and other materials abound.  But, one of the more unusual materials is ...

If you would like to see an overview of the steps that we use in making our wooden pens, feel free to look at our videos.  Each one shows a brief overview of how the individual steps are ap ...

There are a number of ways to make pens. But, each pen that is offered here for sale is handmade, there are no mass-produced, store-bought pens on the website. I turn the body of each pen and combine ...