Southpaw Works

05/17/2026

**FB PEN SALE**
I've never done an online sale on FB so let's see how this goes. I think my custom wood pens might make good Father's day presents.

WHAT:
All pens are wood or wood/epoxy hybrid where noted, turned by me. All take either Cross or Parker refills.

WHERE:
For now these are LOCAL PICKUP ONLY (Cleveland, TN). Will arrange pickup times at South Wal-Mart on McGrady. If you aren't local or can't meet there then hold off. I may do another sale with shipping if I find there is interest.

PAYMENT:
Cash, PayPal, Venmo or CashApp. Do not pay until I approve.

IF INTERESTED:
Reply to the post (not private message) with what letter you are interested in and ask any needed questions. They will be first come, first serve. It may be a day or so before I respond.

Thanks!

05/10/2026

Birdseye maple on a Matthew 17:20 kit. Added a little groove embellishment on it.

05/04/2026

This one came out pretty nice! Yesterday I had a problem right at the end and had to go back a few steps but was able to fix it. First time making this kit. Matthew 17:20 silver kit with maple Burl and epoxy hybrid.

04/26/2026

Shop day today was utilitarian but still fun. I have to use these two little tools during turning. After a year and a half I finally zipped out handles for them. 🙂 from a scrap piece of cherry. The shop was smelling good during turning! Could have sanded better but these will work for free handing and eyeballing them.

04/25/2026

Happy with this one! I built this same kit with a sister piece of wood two weeks ago but it cracked in the assembly. Thankfully this one didn’t! Pics don’t do the color justice on this one!

Double dyed flamed maple.

04/12/2026

This pen was an absolute heartbreaker. I had this really beautiful blank, and it was my first time doing this kit. From time to time you get pieces that just crack, it’s the nature of wood sometimes. But this one cracked on both ends of the cap.

That really bummed me as this wood was absolutely beautiful flamed maple that had been hand dyed orange. The wood was absolutely amazing. So bummed that this one cracked right at the very end. I guess that means it goes in my personal collection though. 🙂

A big thank you to anyone who stopped by my booth yesterday at the festival. It was my first big festival. Honestly, even though I had a lot of traffic and a lot of admirers of both my pens and paintings, I only sold 3 pens. I still had fun, but it was a lot of hard work and a very long day, so I’m not sure when I will be doing another big festival. But it was worth a try! Who knows, maybe this fall I’ll give it another shot. We’ll see.

04/11/2026

Getting set up. Hopefully this goes well! 🙂 come see me at the Hot Slaw Festival

04/06/2026

If you are looking for something fun to do this coming weekend come see me and a bunch of other vendors, musicians, and cool people at the Hot Slaw Festival in downtown Cleveland! It's my first full blown festival so I don't know what to expect but I know they have lots of people and I know I will have paintings and pens for sale. Come see me! :-)

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03/25/2026

Cardinal 11x14 stretched canvas. Just finished him tonight. Will be available at my booth at the Hot Slaw Festival in April.

03/22/2026

Bethlehem olive wood on a Faith, Hope, Love kit. This will probably be my last pen build before the Cleveland Hot Slaw Festival. Got a painting to finish up and hopefully one more to do before then.

Had one fail before this one came out. Very happy with how this pen came out, especially the finish.

03/21/2026

Did something different today. Little maple bowl.

I don’t do many things outside of pens because my lathe is small and doesn’t have a removable tail stop. Because of that, and being a lefty, it’s hard to get where I need to get to route out a bowl. I think this is only my third one.

The inside wall diameter is all wonky. Again the tail stop and lefty thing make thst hard…but also inexperience.

That being said a lot fewer catches and snags than bowls past so I must be getting better.

I love a good pile of sawdust. Normally I clean up but the plan is to be back out there tomorrow so I shirked my duties. :)