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Write Turns Ink Write Turns, Ink creates custom hand-crafted pens from various materials.

Local and exotic woods, acrylics, deer antler and resin products are used to create unique ballpoint, rollerball and fountain pens for the discriminating writer .

Heading to the this week and next for my fourth consecutive year. I always do well there. I have spent the last couple...
10/05/2026

Heading to the this week and next for my fourth consecutive year. I always do well there. I have spent the last couple of weeks getting my inventory ramped up and these are the latest. They are Everlasting Pencils (the bottom piece pulls out and flips around) made with Rosewood Sapwood, Rosewood Heartwood, and two pieces of Box Elder that I stabilized with a blue dye added to the Cactus Juice stabilizing resin.

Had someone at the Downtown Market Tallahassee FL ask me to make him a Football pen for his Seattle Seahawks. The blank...
10/05/2026

Had someone at the Downtown Market Tallahassee FL ask me to make him a Football pen for his Seattle Seahawks. The blanks come in Saturday and I made this one for him.

It’s football season so a couple more of these make sense. I am in Tallahassee so the Seminoles blank is a no-brainer. ...
10/01/2026

It’s football season so a couple more of these make sense. I am in Tallahassee so the Seminoles blank is a no-brainer. I am heading to North Georgia, I should have a few for the Bulldogs. I will be making a few more in the next couple of days including a couple for those crazy fans from Tuscaloosa.

I want to take some “themed” rollerball pens to the Georgia Apple Festival next week so I made these yesterday. The pair...
10/01/2026

I want to take some “themed” rollerball pens to the Georgia Apple Festival next week so I made these yesterday. The pair are Honeybee Rollerballs, one with Osage Orange and the other with an orange honeycomb body.

The single pen is a Honeybee Fountain made with Koa from Hawaii.

Some friends called me yesterday and asked me if I had a fountain pen in the University of South Florida colors. I did n...
09/22/2026

Some friends called me yesterday and asked me if I had a fountain pen in the University of South Florida colors. I did not, so after looking at what I did have, they chose the Maroon and Gold TruStone Majestic Jr.

I wanted to see what I could make with the dyes and pigments that I had on hand and how close they would be to the USF colors. I had a choice of Mint Green, Jade, and Camo Green Mica powders. I picked the Camo as it was the darkest. Jade looked a bit light but I need to try it next time. I had a couple of Gold Mica powders as well and decided on Aztec Gold.

I wasn’t overly excited with how the blank looked after removing it from the mold, but after turning if, putting a finish on it, and polishing, I was pleased with the results. I will take this one with me when I deliver the Maroon one today and let them decide which one they prefer.

It was a slow day at the market on Saturday so I had a chance to turn some of the deer antler that I prepped a couple of...
09/21/2026

It was a slow day at the market on Saturday so I had a chance to turn some of the deer antler that I prepped a couple of weeks ago. I finished eight pens with these being the more unique ones. The picture with three display some of the natural outer edge of the antler. These turned out really nice.

The single one had some interesting color in the porous inner part. I finished it a little differently by sealing it first with CA glue before doing any sanding.

I sold another 22k gold Majestic Jr Rollerball pen made with Abalone at the Havana Woodfest last week so I made another ...
09/17/2026

I sold another 22k gold Majestic Jr Rollerball pen made with Abalone at the Havana Woodfest last week so I made another in advance of the Ga Apple Festival in a few weeks. The pen attracts considerable attention at the markets. Probably half the people who stop by my booth either point to it or pick it up. There is a reason that it is the highest valued product that I currently have.

The latest in the “Yard Trash” series. This was made from a Red Tip Photinia plant that died a couple of years ago. I ha...
09/16/2026

The latest in the “Yard Trash” series. This was made from a Red Tip Photinia plant that died a couple of years ago. I had cut it down to the top of the chain link fence and left the rest. It had several trunks coming up from the ground, each about 6 inches in diameter. My wife’s gardener decided to take it out a couple of weeks ago and cut it down. He took it to the trash pile where it was picked up the next day. He mistakenly left one piece that had rolled up under another plant. A couple of days later I noticed it had been removed and found the piece that was left behind. I instantly noticed the grain pattern and the spalting so I did what any self respecting wood turner would do. I took it into the shop and cut it up on the bandsaw. Some of the wood was getting soft and “punky” so I put it all in Cactus Juice, a stabilizing resin, and pulled a vacuum on it for six hours. It soaked overnight and then I heated it to cure the resin. It was then ready to turn.

It yielded enough material to make about 15 pens with this one being the first. I had originally planned to use gold colored parts but after polishing the blank I changed to this gun metal plating. I think it was a good choice.

My only regret is that I did not notice it was removed before the yard trash was picked up.

Found a great piece of Red Mallee Burl in one of my boxes of blanks and made this Majestic Jr Rollerball pen today. This...
09/16/2026

Found a great piece of Red Mallee Burl in one of my boxes of blanks and made this Majestic Jr Rollerball pen today. This has to be one of the nicest I have ever made. The colors in the Burl are phenomenal. I tried to capture some of the colors in the close-up pictures.

Now on to some other styles and materials. I went through my inventory yesterday to determine which styles I needed to h...
09/10/2026

Now on to some other styles and materials. I went through my inventory yesterday to determine which styles I needed to have ready for the Havana Woodfest this weekend, the Tallahassee Downtown Market the 19th, 26th and 10/3, and then the second and third weekends of October in Ellijay. Turned out to be a pretty long list.

I started with these as I sold the last one of each of these last week. The first picture shows the Piston pen style. The lever on the upper right moves up and down to advance and retract the ink cartridge. This action also causes the lower brass disc to move up and down. People who pick this pen up can’t put it down until their thumb gets tired from pushing the lever up and down. Many wind up putting it in their pocket (after payment of course).

The other picture shows the Botanical pen. These turned out to be surprisingly popular. I made the first one at my wife’s suggestion (“I want one of these.”) and made a few for members of her garden club. People love the floral detail on the upper barrel. I used Koa and Mango for the bodies on these.

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