About 2.5 years ago, I wrote about Indie Pen makers (can you believe I only owned 20 pens? Incredible!). Since then, I’ve learned about many more pen makers, both that have started recently and that I simply didn’t know about at the time.
Do not expect this to be a comprehensive list, that’s virtually impossible these days. However, if you know of a maker who meets the qualifications below and is not included, please let me know. Also, if you know the location of a maker that doesn’t have one listed, let me know that, too.
To qualify for this list, a pen company needs to meet the following qualifications (I need some way to limit this list, otherwise it would be enormous):
- Small company (1-4 people working on the pens)
- Only or regularly works with customers to make unique/custom pens
- Fully handmade, uses CNC lathes with hand finishing, 3D prints custom pen designs, or designs and develops custom pens to be manufactured
- Creates kitless pens
- Not sold in stores (or only sold in local brick & mortar store)
- Makes one-off or short runs
I have not purchased a pen from most of these makers, so consider this an informational list, not an endorsement.
Pen Makers
This list is alphabetical by company name — it is not ranked. Listings with an asterisk (*) are inactive on Instagram (4+ months without a post) or have minimal/no inventory at the time of my last update.
Thanks for reading this far, I hope you enjoyed my post. Once again, if you know of a maker who meets the qualifications above and is not included on this post, please let me know. If you know the location of a maker that doesn’t have one listed, or, if a maker has ceased operations, let me know that, too.
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This post may be a year and a half old, but I still found it supremely enlightening and helped me discover so many wonderful indie pen makers. Makes me wonder about the new penmakers that have appeared since. Cheers!
I’m happy it helped you, Annie! I keep this post updated with new makers I find. My next planned “new maker” update is in January. It will include a new post to highlight the newly-found makers, and I’ll add them to this list as well.
Oh, perfect. I appreciate your diligence!
Hallo Rachel,
thank you so much for adding me to your list.
I have a website with shop now. Maybe you can add this link, too?!
Thank you very much.
warm regards
Gerrit de Boer
HASKOSON Pen Co.
Thanks for letting me know! I’ve added the link. 🙂
Hey Rachel,
Garcia-Deschacht is from Belgium
Warm regards
Jan
Thanks, Jan!