Hi, I'm a bit obsessed with making pens 🤣

[xan y]

Hi everyone
The plan was to make one nice calligraphy pen....that was about 10 years and a few hundred pens ago

 

[Stigmorgan]

Welcome to the asylum
Some very nice work there

 

[Bingy man]

Welcome to ukw very nice work

 

[Lons]

Hi
Nice work. Can I suggest you look in on https://penturners.co.uk/ Everyone there is equally obsessed and are a friendly bunch.

 

[Morag Jones]

Welcome from me too - very lovely

 

[SimonV]

Hi everyone
The plan was to make one nice calligraphy pen....that was about 10 years and a few hundred pens ago

Very nice pens - but I can't help wondering what does one do with so many pens - I find that the few I have are more than I need. Sell? Give as present?

 

[Eshmiel]

Very nice pens - but I can't help wondering what does one do with so many pens - I find that the few I have are more than I need. Sell? Give as present?

Being an ancient specimen now, I recall many kinds of pen and their uses. I began in school with an inkwell and a pencil-like pen with a scratchy nib on the end of a thin wooden stick, to dip in the well. I was even an ink monitor, filling the wells and my shirt sleeve from a large bottle of ink! Then all through school and uni it was fountain pens. Biros were banned at school; biros were disliked at uni; and, afterwards, at work as they somehow encouraged scribbly-calig, whilst a fountain pen encouraged the nicely formed letters and words.

But since around 1995, the keyboard supplanted the pen. Since then many have the touch-keys of their pocket spy as the main means of word-making. I find that I only ever use a pen to scribble notes and calculations on a bit of wrapping paper when in the shed puzzling at dimensions or quantities. It's usually a pencil, not a pen.

Its rare to see a pen in use by someone else, these days. About the only time I see it is when someone is daft enough to pay £3 for a bit of folded card and an envelope to write a birthday or Christmas greeting on.

Were I to find room for a lathe in the shed, I'd become obsessed with making tool handles rather than pens. On the other hand, not that many modern folk use tools either. :-(

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

Hi welcome

 

[Morag Jones]

I’m loving the stored in order of colour!

 

[xan y]

Very nice pens - but I can't help wondering what does one do with so many pens - I find that the few I have are more than I need. Sell? Give as present?

They're great presents to have on hand, but I'm one of those people that can't help buying stationery. So, no such thing as *too many* pens

 

[Inspector]

Welcome.

Lons suggested a nice forum and I'll add a US based one that is bigger and older. IAP (International Association of Penturners). Lots of resources and tutorials covering everything you can think of and more, even dip pens. Both are welcoming and helpful. This is a great forum that covers pretty much everything else.

Pete