GW Pens

A screenshot of the header for the Meet Your Maker blog article from The Pen Addict covering John Greco of GW Pens. The main image shows John standing in front of his brick and mortar retail pen shop in Woodstown, NJ with his workshop inside.

A big Thank You to @penaddict.com for the recent Meet Your Maker post! You can see some of my fountain pens and read the article on The Pen Addict’s blog at:

www.penaddict.com

The GW Pens table at the Triangle Pen Show with a variety of fountain pens

Day 3 of the Triangle Pen Show is underway! Find me in the Oak Room (room 3) and say Hi! 🙂

So glad you like the pen, hope you had a great birthday!

Brooks Primary Manipulation 5 blanks are in-stock here! His new version of his classic PM line incorporates a silver shimmer that has to be seen in person to be fully appreciated.

These won’t be ready in time for the Triangle show, but they will be on my table at the DC Supershow in August!

Spent today wet sanding, buffing, and ultrasonic cleaning this batch of CC1 fountain pens. Monday they’ll get their notches to have clips added.

A teal and black fountain pen with black clip and nib and black ebonite section is shown with the cap posted against a white background

I knew I was tempting fate when I cast this resin in my favorite color. Then the black accents with the clip and nib, and the black ebonite section…yep. This CC1 is going to be a keeper for me!

Thanks! I use JoWo nibs in my pens but they do have my branding on them. Except for some pens where I engrave something more part of the pen theme- like a Peace symbol on the one using wood from the Woodstock stage, or “BB62” for my Battleship NJ pens.

It really does. Thanks!

A fountain pen is shown both closed and posted with a chrome clip and steel nib and again with a gold clip and nib against a white background. The resin pen is gold, white, purple, and light blue.

Chrome clip with steel nib or gold clip and nib? I feel like this is a winner either way. First look at my new CC1 fountain pen series! Resin pour is DiamondCast.

Inspired by the film, you can pick which color section and cap threads you’d like for your pen with all four colors swirled together in the cap. The cap also features a Sterling Silver lightning bolt rollstop.

5 fountain pens are shown with wooden bodies made of wood removed from Gloucester Cathedral, a film location for some Hogwarts scenes in Harry Potter. 4 of the pens are uncapped, showing solid resin sections of red, gold, green, and blue, with one in the middle capped. The cap has all 4 colors swirled and a sterling silver lightning bolt roll stop.

A concept that’s been kicking around for me for some time now. My Gloucester Cathedral Hogwarts fountain pen series. The wood, from Gloucester Cathedral in England, was the film location for several iconic scenes from throughout the Harry Potter series.

Thank you!

Thanks! They’re really comfy to write with 🙂

Four fountain pen sections, one yellow, in green, one red, and one blue, are shown with steel nibs sitting upright on a glass surface.

A little sneak peek at a new pen series in the works!

Four GW D2 fountain pens are shown with caps posted against a white background. A black nib in a purple and black resin pen, a steel nib in a purple, pink, and translucent blue pen, a steel nib in a copper-red, silver, and bronze resin pen, and a steel nib in a purple and white resin pen.

It’s a double One of These Things is Not Like the Other: Fountain Pen Edition! 😂

Thanks so much for stopping in, it was great to meet you 🙂

Good suggestion, thanks!

lol thanks!

Thanks!

A GW D2 model fountain pen is shown in 2 images side-by-side, one uncapped and posted, the other capped, against a white background

New D2 model fountain pen in a resin pour that doesn’t have a name yet. Any suggestions?

Congrats!

Thank you to Pen World Magazine for always doing such great work of highlighting the maker community. Also a big Thank You to everyone who has supported my work from purchasing my pens to simply helping spread the word. I appreciate all of you!

Nomination announcement from Pen World Magazine for GW Pens being nominated for the annual Readers Choice Awards in 2 categories: Sun year fountain pen in the Best Artisan Pen category, and matched Dungeon dice with pen set in the Best Cultural/Historical Theme category.

Incredibly honored to be nominated in 2 categories for the annual Reader’s Choice Awards for Pen World Magazine! My Sunburst guitar fountain pen and Dungeon dice with matched pen.

3rd and 4th year shop students and their teacher Ms Catalano from Woodstown High School inside the GW Pens store/workshop

A big Thank You to Ms. Catalano & her 3rd and 4th year shop students at Woodstown HS for stopping by today! I gave the full shop tour, talked about my journey, & demo’d the CNC lathe for them. I enjoyed that the class made pens for me to give feedback on with a blind judging for bragging rights 🙂

A quick (sped up) little video of boring out a fountain pen section to match a JoWo 6 housing profile.

After each one I do a test fit with a nib to make sure everything is running true and no tool wear has changed the necessary dimensions.

This will receive the body threads during shaping.

An info sheet for a fountain pen class offered by GW Pens in their Woodstown, NJ store.

Are you local to Southern New Jersey?

Interested in learning about fountain pens?

I’m having a class at my shop tomorrow, April 5th, from 3-4pm covering you everything you need to know about fountain pens!

Email me at john@gwpens.com to reserve your spot.

John Greco of GW Pens standing with his daughter Kai in one of the TV production rooms at Rowan University.

Honored for the opportunity to be interviewed by my daughter’s TV Production class today at Rowan U! Everyone there was incredibly kind and professional.

We talked about my shop, how I got into pen making, and a bit about my current favorite fountain pen among other things.

Hello from New Jersey!

Thank you!

A GW GemPen 25 fountain pen on a white background, cap posted. The resin is black with light holographic glitter, a bluish white undertone, and a black nib. An onyx set in fine silver is attached to the cap as a rollstop.

After the feedback on if this should have a polished steel or black nib, I think the unofficial poll from earlier nailed it. Black it is!

Thanks to everyone who took a moment to comment 🙂