mmayo
Member
I make pens for the troops each year with the Antelope Valley Woodturners Club. We manage to make fifty pens every year and get them to people in uniform serving our country.
My idea is to get some help from YOU to do something similar. Yes, I know you may have done this and may do it again this year, me too. That said, let's make 100-120 pens from IAP or at least some of us. I just bought 120 Nutmeg colored Spectraply pen blanks today to do this project. I live near Edwards Air Force base, Know a retired colonel from the Air Force, a flight surgeon nurse, a current pilot/instructor and a retired engineer who regularly goes to Edwards. They will make sure our pens get to the right people on the base.
The kits are an issue, but I can buy those too if you cannot or will not. I hope you will at least be willing to turn them and press them into finished pens. If you want to participate and know of a local base where you want the pens to go, that is fine too.
The idea could be as simple as you stepping up via email or a message to me. I'll send the blanks via a small flat rate box at least and if needed the kits. Slimline or Saturn or a similar pen style from CSUSA sounds great. The design is yours. If you want them to go to service people at Edwards, send them back. If you have a local base, you will be responsible for delivery. Please know for sure that any pens returned to me will be donated from all of IAP, not me.
Ideas, send me your thoughts.
My idea is to get some help from YOU to do something similar. Yes, I know you may have done this and may do it again this year, me too. That said, let's make 100-120 pens from IAP or at least some of us. I just bought 120 Nutmeg colored Spectraply pen blanks today to do this project. I live near Edwards Air Force base, Know a retired colonel from the Air Force, a flight surgeon nurse, a current pilot/instructor and a retired engineer who regularly goes to Edwards. They will make sure our pens get to the right people on the base.
The kits are an issue, but I can buy those too if you cannot or will not. I hope you will at least be willing to turn them and press them into finished pens. If you want to participate and know of a local base where you want the pens to go, that is fine too.
The idea could be as simple as you stepping up via email or a message to me. I'll send the blanks via a small flat rate box at least and if needed the kits. Slimline or Saturn or a similar pen style from CSUSA sounds great. The design is yours. If you want them to go to service people at Edwards, send them back. If you have a local base, you will be responsible for delivery. Please know for sure that any pens returned to me will be donated from all of IAP, not me.
Ideas, send me your thoughts.