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We want you to see our new pen boxes, so we're going to give you one, completely free of charge. Spend £40 on pen kits before midnight on Sunday 7th October, and get a PB50 pen box for free. NO VOUCHER CODE REQUIRED See our full range of pen boxes and pen pouches here   Get a free pen box when you spend £40 or more on pen kits until 7th October ...

Part of our mission this autumn has been to expand the range of pen boxes we keep in stock. Hmmm. Or are they pen cases? Anyway, whatever they're called, here are 3 of them, which have recently been added to our website. We hope you like them. See our full range of pen boxes here (and pen cases too)   ...

To celebrate the launch of 2 new platings in our Leveche pen kit range, we’re giving away a free kit until the end of Friday 3rd August. But 5 Leveche kits in any mix of platings and any pen type, and receive a chrome Leveche fountain pen completely free of charge. (no voucher code required) Get a free Beaufort Leveche pen kit here   Buy any 5 Leveche pen kits and get a 6th one free ...

Yep, we managed to run out – sorry. However, we’re pleased to say that our ever popular Ti Gold Mistral fountain pen kits and rollerball kits are back in stock again. Thanks for your patience to everyone who’s been waiting for them. Our Mistral range of pen kits compare with the best available worldwide, and are the only suite of kits with matching fountain pen, rollerball, ballpoint and pencil kits. Each type matches all the others, meaning that they can be used to make ...

Available to buy right now on our website, the Leveche is the latest addition to our range of pen kits. Pronounced lev-esh, it is designed and engineered to our usual high standards of manufacture, and is currently offered in gold plate and chrome plate, as a fountain pen kit and as a rollerball kit. Other plating options may follow in time according to demand. Take a look at the new Leveche here: If you want to check out the blanks we used to make these pens, take a look at our range of ...

Introducing our new range of rose-gold plated pen nibs from Bock. Now in stock, our new range of rose-gold plated fountain pen nibs is available in both sizes 5 and 6. We have them in Bock’s own housings and in our own “pen kit compatible” housings for the benefit of those making pens from pen kits. Bock’s own housings will screw directly into many commercially available pens including (and these are only examples), models by Kaweco, Karas, Conid and Visconti. The ...

Our free Sirocco pen kit offer ends this Sunday (4th March) The Beaufort Sirocco is the original, British designed pen kit with Sierra compatible tubes for tube-in blanks, and a smooth, finial mounted mechanism. It’s supplied with a Parker style high quality Beaufort refill and is available in a choice of 5 high quality platings. Buy 5 Sirocco pen kits in any mix of platings and receive a chrome/gunmetal Sirocco completely free. There is no voucher code required – just ...

We'd like to introduce you to our brand new pen kit - the Beaufort Zephyr. and to celbrate its launch, we're giving them away for free. Designed by us here in the UK, and manufactured to our usual hih standards, The Zephyr follows on from the success of our hugely popular Sirocco pen kits, and uses the same mechanism, tube and bushes. It is compatible with Sierra tubes for people using pre-cast tube-in blanks, it has its mechanism mounted in the finial, it comes with a Parker style, ...

If you make custom pens, often called kitless pens, or it’s something you’ve been considering and been daunted by the prospect, we’ve just made things a whole lot easier. We have introduced a range of ready-made sections for fountain pens, that are already engineered and threaded to take Bock nibs. The section is the component into which the nib assembly is screwed, and is possibly the most complicated element of making a pen from first principles. Made by Bock ...

Having launched our brand new Sirocco pen kit at the end of June, we thought it was high time we mentioned it in our blog – in fact long overdue. The Sirocco, like all our other pens kits, is designed by us and manufactured to our usual high standards and tolerances. It uses exactly the same size of tube as a Sierra kit, but there the similarity with a Sierra stops. Unlike a Sierra, the Sirocco has its twist mechanism mounted in the finial, not in the nib, which means that the ...