Penmaker in the news

[Steve Busey]

Not me, but sounds like a pretty good success story on the Fox news site, about "Allegory Pens" - anybody heard of them, or claim to be them?

Handmade Pens Made from Historical and Reclaimed Woods

 

[MarkD]

$750,000 in business this year? That's a lot of pens made from historical wood!

 

[Steve Busey]

Yea, that's some pretty serious business for such a limited product range...

I was also intrigued by the use of Kickstarter for fundraising....

 

[Dee-Dee]

If memory serves me (which at my age sometimes it won't) Shawn Newton ...Watchart use kick starter for funding on his pens for kids program.

 

[MarkD]

If memory serves me (which at my age sometimes it won't) Shawn Newton ...Watchart use kick starter for funding on his pens for kids program.

I believe I read that also.

 

[Haynie]

Yes he did. A few people have used Kick Starter for pen ventures. Out of the ones I saw, I have a higher respect for Shawn's project than the others. His is more about a greater purpose than making money.

 

[OKLAHOMAN]

My sweet wife was right and I agree Shawn's was for a much greater purpose than making $$$. He was using it to get kids started using fountain pens.

 

[panamag8or]

I read about the Allegory people a while back. He's just making the same pens we can, with the same wood we can get from a handful of vendors here. He just has superior marketing skills, apparently.

That said, I've thought about kickstarter, too.

 

[Monty]

Doesn't say how many pens he sold to make 750K, but most of the pens on his web site are listed at under $100. At $100 per pen, he would have to make 20-21 pens per day to do that much in sales.