Our pens are different.  Please notice that we have to show you a picture of each and every pen and the one you see is the one you get.  Thats because our pens are custom made and each and every one is different.  Office supply and Department Store pens are always made from acrylic using the same colors and few styles.  The're stamped out at pen factories and they are 2 to 3 times more expensive.  You pay for the name!  They show you one picture and that covers a million or so pens.  You and a million or so other people get the same pen.  COOL.  Wood pens are warm and beautiful.  Each one is unique and different because every piece of wood is unique and different.  No one is going to have a pen quite like yours.  Even our acrylic pens are different.  We don't make 10 or 1000 of the same kind.  We try to make each one slightly different either in material, color, or style.

Most of our items are gift boxed FREE.   Granted, most of your store purchases are boxed, but most custom pen websites charge and make a profit on pen and gift boxes.   If the pen is for you, fine, but if your gifting your purchase you need a box.  Our pens and gifts are packed in a gift box unless otherwise stated.

About Penobscot Pens

Penobscot (Pen Nob Scott) is tough to say.  It's named after a river in Maine where I intended to one day build a retirement home and do woodcrafts.  Well, I finally built that home, but it's not on the Penobscot River, it's on another great Maine River, the Piscataquis River (Piss Cat A Quiss).  Now you see why I am going to leave the name alone.

So you want to meet the artist?  No artists here, just a wood turner out of  control.  Nope, there's not a piece of my soul in every pen I make.  I just try to make them well.    And I didn't want to become a penturner from the first time I sat at a lathe on my daddy's knee,  I just kind of fell into it.

But I probably will keep making pens till the day I die (by the way, that's probably when your lifetime warranty runs out).  I do enjoy turning a nice piece of wood or acrylic into a pretty pen.  And there is a certain satisfaction in hearing that people like and appreciate your pens.  It's also a challenge to predict what people are going to like (when I'm wrong the inventory goes out of control).

This is the new place on the Piscataquis River.  There's a 16' x 30' room over the garage that will be the new shop.  The picture below is the view from the front deck.  The chair is where I sit and mentally design  new pens (ha ha ha).  We are looking forward to moving up there but it's kind of a mixed bag because what's keeping us here is my wifes job and medical insurance.  Given that she works for a builder and the way the economy is going, it shouldn't be long now.

To Be Continued

Ken