While I have many fountain pens made from resin or metal, I don't have any wooden pens. A life without any wooden pens is no life for a pen aficionado like me. So I ordered some from Renee Meeks of Scriptorium Pens . I show here the first one which Renee has just finished. A dip pen in roasted curly maple (explanation see below). And it turned out beautiful. Renee had already made a resin pen for me - we call it "Japanese Autumn" pen as it shows the same colors as the leaves in autumn. I will report details in another posting. While we were planning for the corresponding spring, summer and winter pen, I found out that Renee also likes to make wooden pens. I had a little spare money available, so I decided that now is the time to end my wooden pen-less life. The first one is a dip pen made from roasted curly maple . What is curly maple? Wikipedia says "Flame maple (tiger maple), also known as flamed maple, curly maple, ripple maple, fiddleback or