Pen Exchange Match-up

[Greg Just]

Here are the match-ups for the Pen Exchange. I had my son pick the names from a bag tonight. Hopefully I did not miss anyone. There were 41 interested in the exchange so to make things work out evenly, I will trade twice (seeing I started this thing). I would contact your partner and work out a plan as to a schedule. Hopefully everyone will be done by the end of May. I would encourage you to post pictures of your pens so we all can see how creative we can be. If for some reason you cannot complete your pen, let me know and I will try to match you to someone else. Good luck and enjoy.

1 Greg Just 16 Belton Garvin
2 Nancy Laird 39 Tom Hamilton
3 Greg Cuetara 13 David Wilhelm
4 Michael Gallagher 35 Steve Campbell
5 Jon Lanier 37 Mack Cameron
6 Skip Mcpherson 33 Dan Allemand
7 Ben Gasfriend 32 Raymond Overman
8 Brian McInturff 27 Chris Stolicky
9 Benjamin Dahl 12 Dennis Kranz
10 Tom Sherman 22 Jeff Taylor
11 Earl Reid 29 Phil St. Germain
14 Andy Hoyt 25 George Heatherly
15 Rich Souchek 17 John Taylor
18 Brandon Grasley 34 Brad Knight
19 Tom Wakeley 21 Bill Noce
20 Troy Cleckler 36 Jeff Hooper
41 Tim Brooks 1 Greg Just
23 Daniel Heine 30 Rich Stewart
24 Russ Peters 26 Jerry Sambrook
28 Rasmus Petersen 31 Greg Deemer
38 Horst Hohoff 40 Nathan Camp

[Jon Lanier]

Thanks Greg for putting this together!

[michael gallagher]

Thanks to Greg for organizing this - it should be fun (now to go buy a half dozen of XYZ pen kit to control the screwups)!

Michael

[Ben Gastfriend]

This is a great idea, Greg! Thanks so much! And I got Raymond! Sweet!

[Bill Noce]

Greg,

Great job of putting this together....let the fun began.

Bill

[Rick Gibson]

Been busy and haven't been able to check in much lately so I missed this. I would have been in. Just recently had an exchange on penturners paradise and the draw went a little different. First name drawn sent a pen to the second name who sent one to the third name and so on, the last name drawn sent one to the first name. That way no worries about having an even number of people. Just for a little suspense we sent our shipping addresses to the person drawing the names and he pm'd the people so you knew who you were sending one to but not who was sending to you.

[Raymond Overman]

This is a great idea, Greg! Thanks so much! And I got Raymond! Sweet!

I don't know if it's going to be so sweet for you Ben. I've just destroyed one kit in trying to prototype the pen I'm going to be sending.

I'll be heading back to the drawing board to solve a few problems and then back to the lab to put this Frankenstein's Monster of a pen together. Hopefully the lightning will strike right tomorrow night.

FYI for all you other participants, Ben and I exchanged a few PMs and decided that we would work with a 7MM kit and stretch it to it's limits. It should make for an interesting twist on the exchange, no pun intended. Well, maybe a little.

Thanks for organizing Greg. This is going to be fun.

[michael gallagher]

Rick-

I saw the pen you posted on the Penturner's Paradise board - you do very nice work!

[Jon Lanier]

I've got my design all in my mind. Now if I could ever execute it... wait a minute that might be exactly what I'll do to the kit, execute it.

[dennis kranz]

Sorry Benjamin but first attempt blew up. Question for all of you. Does a pile of sawdust and a kit count as a pen? Guess I'll have to try again.
Dennis

[Raymond Overman]

Sorry Benjamin but first attempt blew up. Question for all of you. Does a pile of sawdust and a kit count as a pen? Guess I'll have to try again.
Dennis

It all depends on how well you work with CA glue or resin Dennis.

[David Wilhelm]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm what you boyzzzzz cookin up????????????

[Mack Cameron]

I've got my design all in my mind. Now if I could ever execute it... wait a minute that might be exactly what I'll do to the kit, execute it.

Talk like this makes me worry!

[Greg Just]

A couple of prototypes - one is acutally a pencil kit made with maple and purple heart. The pen is walnut and maple. Not thrilled with either one.

[Jon Lanier]

A couple of prototypes - one is acutally a pencil kit made with maple and purple heart. The pen is walnut and maple. Not thrilled with either one.

I think you got something good going their. The swirl stripes a bit thick?

-Jon