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Marla Christensen lives and works in Canada, and specialises in  casting her amazing blanks using carefully selected game bird feathers. Each blank is truly unique and is created by delicately and expertly securing each feather before casting in clear polyester resin. Works of art in their own right, Marla’s feather blanks turn to create the most beautiful of pens. We ran pretty low on stck duriung the course of our "big move" but we're pleased to say that we're ...

Having been spoiled with the scenic value of the Highlands of Scotland for the past several years, do we miss it? Yes, of course we do. But when you have this view to feast your eyes on every time you look up from your computer screen, life can't be too bad can it! Exmoor is beautiful, and our little part of it, looking straight down the Exe Valley, frankly takes a lot of beating.   Exmoor in late winter. The view from our office ...

At the end of January, we're moving to new, larger premesis. It's a massive re-location, and consequently, order shipping will be delayed for a few days. Our website will still be open for business as usual thoughout, but we'll be unable to despatch orders after 24th Januaty, and hoipe to be back to normal by 6th February. If your order is urgent or time sensitive, please make sure that you place it in good toime, as we really won't be able to send it to you between those ...

Made specially for us in Italy, these single, high density colour, acrylic pen blanks are available in 150mm and 200mm lengths. Easy to turn, these pen blanks finish and polish to a high shine, and are excellent for threading too. Ideal for pen kits, kitless pens and custom pen makers, we have them on our website in 5 different solid colours Jet black Purepurple Cadmium dark red Midnightblue Racing green We're pretty sure we'll be commissioning more colours pretty ...

Or the 5th plating in our case. We're pleased to announce that at last the 5th plating option for our Zephyr pen kit is now in stock. It's entirely in upgrade gold from start to finish, and we think it looks pretty smart. We hope you agree. This one is turned using a reclaimed whisky cask pen blank. The cask came from the Blair Athol distillery. (The Blair Athol distillery is where Bells whisky comes from). Keep an eye on the penblanks on our website - we have them from ...

We're pleased to announce the arrival of two new precious metal plating options for our ever popular Sirocco pen kit Rhodium with black titanium accents Black titanium with rhodium accents Both new options are available on the website to buy right now. See our full range of Sirocco pen kits here   Sirocco pen kits are now available in precious metal platings ...

A happy Christmas to all our customers and friends Thank you for your support and friendship throughout the year - we look forward to working with you in 2019   Happy Christmas to all our customers and friends from Beaufort Ink ...

We'd like to introduce our brand new pen kit - the Beaufort Zephyr, so for a limited time we're giving them away for free. Designed by us here in the UK, the Zephyr follows on from the success of our hugely popular Sirocco pen kits, and uses the same tube, bushes and mecahnism. It is compatible with Sierra tubes for people who want to use pre-cast tune-in blanks, it has its ultra-smooth mechanism mounted in the finial, it comes with a Parker style, Beaufort Ink refill as standard, ...

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)   ...