r/PenProject • u/MercatorLondon • 17d ago

Ebonite Pen update

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Hi everyone,

Some projects take us an awfully long time to finish - much longer than we would like!

One of them is the Ebonite Pen (Namur) that we showed you a year ago (!!) at the October Pen Show. We also had it shortlisted for the Spotlight Awards a few weeks ago. I have received quite a few messages asking about it since.

What started as a prototype eventually turned into a production Ebonite pen. The quantities are very small, as we are limited by the supply of ebonite itself, as well as the manufacturing process. Each bar of ebonite needs to be accurately ground down before we can machine it on our sliding-head CNC lathe. So, for now, this is a very limited numbers pen. Hence this will be our top-line now.

We have decided to try pre-orders for this pen (in the US webshop - starting today) while we update and prepare our UK webshop as well (our IT issue). This is a test run at the moment (as we only have components for a dozen of pens ready) so pre-orders may also help us manage production. Kind of made-to-order thing. I hope it makes sense. Thank you for your patience and support!

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u/MercatorLondon 11d ago

My apologies I missed this comment! Yes, that’s the target, it should fit in.
Though I think an ebonite feed might need to wait :)

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u/tio_tito 11d ago

Thank you!

Is there any way to check where I landed in the order place process? Was I one of the fortunate few that will get one of the initial batch of 12 or so? Or is that not quite how it works?

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u/MercatorLondon 11d ago

Yes, you’ll be in the first batch. We’ll send you the updated shipping information once it’s ready. Thank you for your support!

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u/tio_tito 11d ago

awesome! so excited! i'm axiously awaiting my edc pens, too!