7 mm Slim Style Solid Clip Ballpoint Pen Kit - Cobalt Gold

This chart outlines the proper blanks, drills and accessories to make various pens and small turning kits.

Safe Harbor Maritime Academy, located in Jacksonville, Florida, is a Christian residential education program for 15-17 year old boys who are fatherless, have lost one or more parents to death, and those who are experiencing behavior problems in home, at school and need an alternative home setting. This waterfront program instills in the boys to become responsible, mature and independent young men through spiritual, educational and vocational training to achieve academic success, while providing a safe, stable, structured, alternative home environment. The boys live aboard vessels, learning seamanship and maritime skills as well as studying for a high school diploma.

Woodcraft’s 2016 Turn for Troops program produced 13,720 pens, bringing the 13-year total to 146,118.

Woodcraft is asking volunteers all over the US to turn wood pens during the 15th Turn for Troops National Turn-a-Thon on the weekend of Nov. 10-11.

Woodcraft will sponsor its 17th Turn for Troops National Turn-a-Thon on November 7 and 8 and is asking volunteers to continue supporting those on active military duty or recovering from injuries by making handcrafted wood pens – at either a retail store event or at home for submission to Woodcraft.

In 2019, volunteers turned 15,385 one-of-a-kind pens for a 16-year total of 190,609 pens. Woodcraft’s goal this year is at least 200,000 pens and hopefully many more.

Despite the limitations of sponsoring a nationwide event during the coronavirus pandemic, Turn for Troops volunteers and Woodcraft store personnel rallied in 2020 to turn enough wooden pens for military personnel to comfortably pass the 200,000 overall mark.