* Health Ok so this is why things are a big flaky at the moment. For about a month or so I have been in and out of the doctors office due to a health condition due to my skin. This problem has impacted me by irritating the living hell out of me and has been keeping me awake. This has had a knock on … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 3 week 15: Baetylus and health

* Pen show Just a brief one today and it will mostly about the pen show. It went well. So far things are going in an upward curve with our sales at each show increasing, this is good in my book. It all started the night before where I met up with Derek from [Stonecott fine writing](https://stonecottfinewritingsupplies.com). He is also my neighbour at the pen … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 3 week 14: The London Pen Show

* pen making A very brief one today. There will be no update next week as it is the London Pen show. I have been busting my balls trying to get up to the magic 80 pens (as much as I can carry in 1 box). I had 2 Zeus models ready to be shaped this morning. I polished a load of other pens in … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 3 week 13: Final pen show Prep

Before anyone says anything yes I know Zen is not spelled like that, Xen is the alien world in the computer game Half Life, yes I am a geek. Apologies if I get technical this week, I have some diagrams and photos of things too along with the usual pen images of what I am working on. * pen making Last weeks pens I managed … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 3 week 12: Xen and the art of lathe maintenance

* Pen making I had big plans today, I really did. Those plans however had a brief meeting with actual work and therefore those plans immediately fell apart like a tower of feathers in a hurricane. The plan I had was this, I was going to go down into the workshop around 10 ish and I was going to start work on shaping a pen … Continue reading Weekly update: Year 3 week 10: Baetylus and more