I’ve been spending a lot of time with my Write Turnz fountain pen I picked up at the Orlando Pen Show. Which one? This one ...
Called Autumn Medley, this brown, caramel, and purple resin is a knockout, and perfect for the fall.
Material beauty aside, do you know what sold me on this pen? The copper clip and finial. While I always appreciate a good clip and finial, it was the custom design on this pen that sealed the deal.
The challenging part with standing in front of the Write Turnz table is that nearly ALL of Jason Olson’s pens have a custom clip or finial, and often both. There were copper designs, like on this pen, brushed titanium on others, and a huge range of Damascus steel clips of different shapes and sizes elsewhere. I was completely enamored with all of the choices, and that was just for hardware!
Jason makes pens from a wide range of materials (fossilized Wooly Mammoth Tusk, anyone?) but I tend to go with something more straightforward for my first experience with a new maker. That’s if you consider Autumn Medley with custom copper hardware straightforward.
Looking at the rest of the Write Turnz pen lineup, it is. And I’m very happy with it so far. Fitted with a 1.1 mm steel JoWo stub nib, etched with the Write Turns logo, it performs great. That is to be excepted, but I made the pen sing even louder with my choice of Bungubox Imperial Purple ink. A more perfect match cannot be found.
The barrel shape fits my hand well. It’s standard in size and weight, with a straight-sides grip section, and a cartridge/converter filling system. The threading is smooth, with the cap taking just over one full turns to remove, and the entire barrel is polished to perfection.
The finial is a perfectly circular copper disk, with no engravings or markings to speak of. I dig the simplicity. The clip is also unmarked, but has a unique short curved blade shape, giving this pen a sneaky cool feature. Both parts will continue to patina over time.
Sneaky cool is what Write Turnz is to me after getting to spend time with Jason and his daughter in Orlando. Their offerings can be a simple or as complex as you like, and I promise you will see something you haven’t seen before on the table. In fact, Jason showed me his Hang 10 project at the show, where he makes pen barrels from discarded surfboard resin. Now that’s what I call quite good!
I believe I paid around $225 for Autumn Medley at the Orlando Pen Show, and while not directly available on the site, many other unique models are. I’m sure you can always contact Write Turnz if you are interested, or have a special request of your own.
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