About Vermont Hardwood Pens
Hello, My name is Jim Cunningham and I live in beautiful Bristol Vermont, Gateway To The Green Mountains.
I moved to here in 1984 and a year later built a log cabin for a friend. I went on to build several more houses over the next few years and my life seened like there was something missing untill the mid 90's I began to make rustic furniture, it felt so wonderful working this way with things of nature. Over the next 5 years I made a few hundred pieces, clocks. mirrors. small tables, stools and benches.
I began turning pens in 2001 for the National Wildlife Federation and almost from the start it became an addiction. I could not stop, I kept turning and turning and today I have made over 10,000 pens.
In the beginning most of my orders were from large non profit groups for gifts. From those first orders my business skyrocketed and has continued to this day.
Today I sell pens to a few select stores, do one or two craft shows a year, sell from my website and most of my pens are sold as corporate gifts.
Slimline
Tapered
Streamline
Sierra
Elegant Beauty
Bullet & Antler
Unique Gifts
Local Woods Used
Ash
Cherry Burl
Red Elm
Red Birch
White Oak
Red Oak
Lilac From The
Shelburne Museum
Antique Amercan Chestnut
Cherry
Desk pens & Stands
ART FOR YOUR DESK
This desk pen and stand is a unique art piece for you desk. The wood is reclaimed and recycled Vermont hardwoods. The pen holder is cast pewter made for me and the stone is Iberville shale from the shores of Lake Champlain. After rolling and tumbling in the lake for hundreds or thousands of years these beautifully worn stones are magical pieces of Vermont. Free lucky pocket stones with purchase.
Pen & Stand on sale now at the low price of $75
Special Woods
Special woods in stock are Lilac from the Shelburne Museum.
Wood from a dying Amercan Elm from the Vermont State House lawn.
A very small amount of maple from the New Hampshire homestead of Robert Frost. It came From the tree in the poem Tree at My Window. The tree was cut last Fall.
I have some very nice cherry burl.
Maple burl almost ready to use.
Antique Amercan Chestnut from the Shenandoah Valley. More info
All wood used in making my pens is 100% reclaimed and green wood. I gather it from many sources, weather damaged trees, firewood, scrap wood from wood shops and waste wood from a local mill. Exclusively Vermont Wood Products
Custom made pens from your wood. Lost a favorite tree in your yard? Have an old hammer with a broken handle that was your grandfathers? An old un-repairable piece of furniture? Or do you have a beautiful piece of wood that you have had for a long time. I can take a small piece of your special wood and make pens for you and your family.
Jim Cunningham 65 Munsill Ave. Bristol, Vermont 05443 802 453-2453 jim@vermonthardwoodpens.com
