You may recall...

Last year I was playing around with ball shapes. I made a few prototypes (from small to big).

Recently a few people were asking what had happened to the large Titanium ball I made.

Well, it's still sitting here on my desk - I just haven't done anything more with it.

Honestly, I'm not sure why I'm showing it here - perhaps to push myself into doing something with it. I definitely feel like there is something there though:

I showed a video in the last blog post about the NEW "Retro" slider (well, it's a new-and-improved version of a slider I made a few years ago).

It's come out really nicely with anodizing (and popular too!) - here's what it looks like:

Our CNC machine that engraves the pens has been down for around 6 weeks.

FINALLY, we're back up and running as this morning - woohoo!

We've been getting asked a lot for pens recently ...so it's awesome to be able to make them again (we've made two this morning already :-P).

I've given a couple of hints recently at the up-coming "fancy" slider (yeah, I'm not sure what to call it yet other than this).

I still don't have the actual slider to show you yet ...and that's because we're still making the CNC fixtures to hold it.

There is a small chance the slider is ready by the end of the week - but, most likely, it will be next week.

We have the first part of it made - waiting on next part.

Here's some more of the CNC fixturing required to make it: