Posted: 2025-04-26

Handmade Pens

"Come into the workshop. You're all over the place. You're a space cadet at the best of times, but you have so much going on that you need to focus on something. Something steady. Tie up your hair, it'll get caught in the machines."

He did the shaping for me, because that was the part where you could injure yourself if you jumped in without the skillset. I just did the finishing and assembly: sanding with ever finer grades of sandpaper, then thick cyanoacrylate, then thin, then more sanding and polishing, then pressing them together.

Writers move in packs. I gave them to some authors who are special to me.

I would like to do some more one day, logistics permitting.