One on One Service Pens, Turning For Troop or Freedom pens

[Band Saw Box]

I've been so blessed this year, a new job, a new lathe and great friends hear and on facebook. I want to give some of that back. I've sent 15 or so pens to Service Pens and I was planning on going to the Norfolk Woodcraft this weekend to Turn for Troops but I have to work. So I now taking some of my slimlines to work with me and giving them to some of the service folks in uniform or that from talking to them that they are military. Most will be for those that come to the tool department but I've given 2 to folks I helped in other departments. WhIle it nice to sell a pen nothing beat the ear to ear smile when you give them a pen. One will be used by the navigation on the bridge of the USS Abraham Lincoln. I need to get to work and make some more.

 

[TDE]

Dan, that's a great idea. I know they enjoy the pens.

 

[Skie_M]

Yes, it's an excellent idea .... one I wish I had the money to follow.


But I live in Lawton, Oklahoma .... right next door to Ft Sill. The Artillery Capital of the United States Army, as well as a Basic Training facility and they also do cross-training for Marines, Army Rangers, and Navy Seals (to enable them to contact and direct fire using Army Artillery units).


I'm up to my ears in guys that wear (mostly) green, and I have all of 32 funline kits. My quandary isn't so much finding someone to give one to, it's getting enough kits to feed the hunger!

Wood isn't a problem, of course .... there's a nice lumberyard in town and I can also cut down my own mesquite. I just don't have near enough kits for 8,000 troops.... lol

 

[stonepecker]

Skie, Do what you can and watch the smiles shine.

This is one of the best things we do. Pens for the troups. Empty bowls. Beads of Courage. This and so much more is what the IAP and this hobbiy is about.

 

[sbwertz]

The blind turning project has made more than 50 service pens now. I gave 15 of them to one of the volunteers at the center who works with the visually impaired soldiers in the local Wounded Warrior chapter for the soldiers she is working with. I will send the rest to IAP as soon as this year's project gets underway.