As I write this, I’m close to half way through engraving a batch of wooden pen boxes for Bryn Jones of Prestige Pens, based near Caernarfon.
Bryn is a wood turner who I met at the Wales Spring Fair in Llandudno. As well as wooden bowls, he makes fabulous wooden pens, turned by hand from a wide variety of native and exotic woods. He sells them at craft events, through shops in North Wales and through his Prestige Pens web site.![Engraved pen boxes](http://woodwasp.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/pens_sml-300x238.jpg)
Much of the wood he uses has dramatic grain patterns, so every pen is a one-off.
To give his pens the finishing touch, he offers his customers a wooden box to keep them in, engraved with his logo. He seems to be doing well, judging by the number of boxes he’s using!
Laser engraving is a flexible way to mark wooden boxes like these, with the ability to prepare batches as and when needed, or to do small runs of bespoke designs if required.