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Hi! I’m John, a bespoke pen maker. GW Pens is a retail B&M pen shop w/the workshop built inside, making almost every pen on-site (also carry Lamy pens). You’ll also find handmade D&D dice, ink, & journals. Online @ GWPens.com or 4 S. Main St Woodstown, NJ
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Hi Mabel! I do take commissions and ship world-wide, feel free to dm or message through my website if you have something you’d like to discuss. Thanks!
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This is so spot-on. Way back I was learning the skills to be a shop teacher but landed in retail. Today I’ve combined what I learned to be a pen maker with my own Brick & Mortar retail pen shop with my workshop on-site.
Sometimes you learn things without realizing how important they’ll be to know.
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Into* the store. Hey maybe one day we’ll be able to edit our typos here lol
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I get a lot of calls I to the store asking if I do repairs, and it really depends what needs to be done. Some, like straightening a clip, are pretty straight forward.
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Thank you!
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So glad! Thank you again 😊
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Nice! Maybe the cheaper paper is helping draw the ink out with capillary action vs a more fountain pen friendly paper where the ink kind of sits on top? Whatever the reason, glad it’s working 🙂
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Rickshaw is fantastic, grats on the find!
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Patrick & I had a great conversation about his time as a Cross rep. After learning of my background (I started as a toy maker), he shared a great story about an airplane propeller mfr finding new life as a wind turbine mfr.
It’s a story that has stuck with me, we never know where life will lead us.
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Thank you!
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Nice! I love the Vista series
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*Sold*
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Thank you!
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If all goes well, later this week.
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Very nice! I love stub nibs, they make my marginally ok handwriting look 20x fancier lol
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Thank you!!
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😂
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Agree about the dust.
Casting some of it in resin was a topic he and I discussed. My initial concern was the glass could discolor the resin, but thinking on it more I don’t know if it could go so far as to make the resin more brittle.
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That’s really cool! I haven’t been to the Ohio show but I’ve been in business for quite a while, so it’s possible you’ve seen my logo around.
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A nice pen is kind of like your car keys. You might temporarily misplace it but you’ll find it soon enough!
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That’s awesome. I actually just had someone stop by today asking if I could incorporate uranium glass he has into a pen.
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Thank you!
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Thanks so much!
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Thanks!
I’ve had a lot of people from the area stop in to buy one of those pens. What I love most is, as great a history as the tree itself had, so many have personal stories about the tree they shared with me.
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Some from Gloucester Cathedral, where some Hogwarts scenes were filmed. Some from James Bell Tavern where the importance of a Bill of Rights was said to be discussed in 1788.
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Stabilizing wood is like squeezing a sponge underwater. The wood is submerged in a liquid resin, the air vacuumed out. When the vacuum is released, the resin fills where the air was in the wood. It’s then heat treated to harden, helping make them true heirloom quality.
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☹️
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Lamy carries a 2 year warranty if it falls within that?