Personal Collection

[Turned Around]

Here's a simple, yet complicated question. Since you started turning pens, how big has your personal collection gotten?

Like pretty much everybody on here, I've made a few pens that I inteded to sell, took a look at the finished product and thought "ya know what? I'll just sell the next one, this one's mine!". Long story short, whenever I manage to make it to my first show, I'll be selling my collection, not inventory haha.

Stupid habit. Stupid fun habit.....

 

[Kenny Durrant]

I have around a dozen or so. I have the first pen and pencil I ever turned and a few other firsts as well. The others are from horns or wood I picked up on vacations. I have one made of moose antler from Alaska I bought from a knife maker. When I was in Maui I met a wood turner that had buckets of scraps he said he'd been saving for someone like me. The pieces were too small for him to use but too nice to throw away. I brought home some nice Koa from that trip.

 

[carlmorrell]

This is the original collection. I won't disclose how many I have made since then

 

[GaryMGg]

Nice wall art Carl.

 

[ttpenman]

I don't keep too many, just a few. Most in my 'Personal Collection' are ones I received in various PITH's over the years.

Jeff in northern Wisconsin

 

[plantman]

My collection is over 600. These photos are about half of them I brought to a woodworking show last March. Jim S

 

[D.Oliver]

Why limit yourself? It's quality control right? I mean what kind of [strike] drug dealer [/strike] pen turner doesn't sample his own product?

 

[plantman]

I should have added that I have been making pens on and off for about 15 years. I give most that I don't keep away and sell a small amount if asked to make something to order. It is addictive, but is very therapeutic for keeping old hands and mind working good, well, at least working!!!! If you break it down, 15 years X 52 weeks a year, that's 780 weeks, or 1 pen a week I keep. Doesn't sound so bad if you look at it this way !!! Jim S

 

[tbroye]

What collection. My wife has them all. Bet she has 50 pens around her. Grand Daughter has a few also but she makes some to.

I have one in my collection and it arrived this afternoon. I won the pen that auctioned last month and it is beautiful and a work of art. It is MINE and is locked in a display cabinet along with my Indy 500 memorabilia

 

[sbwertz]

I have two PITH pens, a Pentagon Elm pen that was given to me as a gift, my carry pen, and my stylus. My husband has five he rotates as his carry pen. All the others are sold or given away.

 

[USNR'03]

My personal stash is only pens I have swapped for or have been given, plus the one I am currently carrying, one day I'll give it away and make a new one. Now he wife has at least 20 plus a box of blanks in the area of 30 ... she dropped a hint the other day, "you might take a look thin the box for something to make".

 

[Smitty37]

Well there is my collection and my COLLECTION - my collection is made up of pens that I will sell or give away all made by me maybe 35 or 40. My COLLECTION is nearly all pens made by IAP members and gotten as swaps,gifts, etc and withing that collection there are about half a dozen that I got via IAP auctions, several PIT. Total is about 100 pens at the moment. With several more expected before the end of the year.

 

[dartman]

I have made a few that my wife wanted.I also kept my first pen and the first pen that I poured.After that they are all for sale.