While making Furniture and natural wood items, like Jewelry Boxes, I found I had a great deal of small left-over pieces of valuable wood, and after a visit to New Jersey Wood Turners, it was evident that these small pieces could be used for pens, bottle openers, and other small turned items. So I have been making and giving away wood and acrylic pens for about 10 years and being a facilitator in the wood shop, it was evident that the Lathe was an underused tool and that a course to encourage Lathe work was needed. I have begun teaching how to make pens at MakeHaven, using mini-lathes and showing students how easy it is to use the tool safely and create beautiful pens quickly;