CREATE A HYPE! ALL FOUNTAIN PEN SELLERS!

Not sure how to start a craze but I think it’s a wonderful idea. I love writing. I refuse to use mechanical pencils or plain pens. I don’t think the written word is appreciated enough. Good luck.

-- Don't tell her I'm in the shop!

exactly. if we can convince people that real written letters etc. mean more and get them to appreciate writing than there will be a much larger market for high quality pens.

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Seems to me your in a losing battle to sell turned pens a writing instruments, there are too many other sources that will always be cheaper.

If you market them as gifts with nice upscale boxes where gifts are the normal ware, that might hit the mark.

At gift shops or at craft fairs prior to holidays.

Possibly at woodworking events with a price good enough to be the souvenir that the public can walk away with in place of that table saw they couldn’t afford

Crazes are bad actually – because while the small shops will rule at the start of the wave… big (industrial) shops and imports will take over and crush the little guy. When the wave breaks, and the pens hit the discount bins, the little guy will actually be worse off than he is now.

-- Derek, Bremerton WA --

all of you are right. but i mostly meant the kind that RRGR is talking about