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It arrived this week!!!! I had just run out of my old color Omaha Brown.  I spent a couple weeks going back and forth with the people at Noodlers about the details of the new color.  Finally, it arrived and its a beautiful BLUE!!!!!.  In case you can't tell I'm pretty excited about it.  Its one thing to have a color made for your business and its a totally different thing to have that color be a shade that you are absolutely in love with!   If you get a chance, check out my review of the color on the fountain...

I am now caught up on special orders.  If you have been wanting to have a pen made but don't want to wait 2, 6, or even 12 months or more send me a message.  I have room available right now.  Simply send a message to jj.9ball@hotmail.com with the words "pen inquiry" in the subject line and we can start talking about your custom fountain pen.  I did get out in the shop this week and got a couple pens made.  I have them listed here.  You might notice the red and purple pen I just put up.  I can't...

I finished up another special order yesterday for three pens.  I am down to just a couple more to make and then the queue will be open.  Please keep in mind that I can make more than what you see on my website.  I can also make pens to fit Pelikan nibs and Bock nibs.  I also do alternative filling mechanisms including piston fillers, syringe fillers, bulb fillers, and evey straight eyedroppers.  I use any material you can think of.  If it will turn on my lathe I will find a way to make a pen from it.  So if...

       I've had a few people over the past couple years now complain that there never seems to be any "little" or "skinny" pens available from custom makers.  I admit it does seem to be a little more difficult to make this sort of thing.  The clearances have to be tighter and the parts are definitely more fragile.  I decided I would make a couple pens to suit this crowd.   Both of my new ones are from Conway Stewart blanks which I am learning to love more and more each day.  They polish up beautifully and make great...

This past 2 weeks have been very busy.  I have had a bunch of time to work on pens.  So the good news is that the queue is now nearly completely open.  I just finished up 5 different special orders and now have openings for the next week.  So if you are interested in a custom build I could be starting on your pen as early as this weekend. On the R & D side of things I just got an order of gemstones in (mostly semi-precious except for a sapphire).  I plan on integrating those into some of my...