It is the weekend and as usual I will post stuff that is far removed from the games being played in DC………From time to time I do a review of something like books, and such….this time I want to give props where they are due…….to an American craftsman.

But first a little background…….Since my early days of writing on politics and economics I have made ba-zillions of notes and since the early days of high school I have written with a fountain pen.  I know that is old school but I tend to write better with them and makes my notes so much easier to read.  And over those many years I have acquired a collection of pens some are famous names and others no names but write well…..I have used Mont Blanc, Waterman, Parker, Shaeffer……but NO pen in my collection writes as well or has the superb hand feel of the pens I recently acquired……

Now to the meat of the review…….recently I found a wood fountain pen on Amazon and decided to buy it and see how it wrote……HOLY CRAP!  Not only was the pen beautiful craftsmanship but it wrote like a dream………..I emailed the guy about his pen and he turned me onto his Etsy store and I got a good look at his skills….impressive!

The man is an American genius with wood his name is Jeff Ward…..he does amazing work….I have since bought another pen from him and plan to buy others……My latest acquisition is a pen made from olive wood to replace one that I lost during Katrina…….I say give Jeff a chance and he will amaze you also……..

Check out His store……..

http://www.etsy.com/shop/JeffsPensandMore?ref=si_shop

In these days of outsourcing it is nice to find an American craftsman that is well worth the title……Jeff’s work is impressive….you will not find this high quality work at Lowe’s….drop y his store and say HI and look around and you will see what I am saying…..