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Enjoy your Holidays!

Hi Pen Fans!

Real quick, I wanted to let everyone know that we’ll be taking a bit of extra time off during the Holidays.

We didn’t take very much vacation this year, so Andrea and I will be taking the last two weeks of December off to spend quality time with family and recharge. As of today, we’re off for the year.

I will be back in my office on the 3rd.

Huge thanks to all of our fans for another great year! We truly appreciate your support!

I hope that everyone has a great time with friends and family over the break!

Brian at Edison

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Enjoy the Holidays!

Hi Pen Fans!

Andrea, myself, and our crew haven’t had hardly any vacation and just about no travel since covid began. Frankly, we are worn down! We have decided to take the entire last two weeks of December off to be with our families and to be sure that we come back in January fully recharged.

So it will be at the beginning of 2022 that I will be able to take care of emails and other communications.

I hope that everyone stays safe and enjoys their time over the Holidays!

Brian at Edison

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Taking Time Off This Week…

Hi Pen Fans!

With the craziness surrounding the virus, Andrea and I have taken only about 2-3 days as vacation this year. We are simply worn down and need to get some time away from work.

We will be taking all of this week off and will be returning on the 9th of November.

So it could be Monday the 9th or Tuesday the 10th that you receive a response to emails.

In the meantime, everyone stay healthy!

Brian at Edison

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Covid 19 Edison Update

Hi Pen Fans!

Well, it’s been an interesting few months here! If you remember my original post when the Ohio Stay at Home order came into effect, running this business has mostly been just my wife and I for a good while now. Our employees were helping remotely where they could, and they had occasional staggered hours. We were able to keep up pretty well actually, but it did mean longer hours.

As of about two weeks ago, manufacturers in Ohio have been cleared to bring employees back with certain caveats. We waited a little after this announcement, but have brought back our crew to normal hours and we are taking all precautions.

We are fortunate in that the building that we occupy has lots of space that we don’t normally use. So we have our workstations spread across our entire building, and each employee is in a totally separate room with a closed door between them and anyone else. When an employee leaves their work station, masks are on.

Additionally, anytime that a parts rack is being passed from one station to another, all parts get a spray with denatured alcohol. All incoming mail and packages are getting sprayed before handling, as well. Side note – in case you are wondering about sanitizing an Edison Pen, denatured alcohol is perfectly safe for the acrylics that we use. I wouldn’t spray the nib, or get the alcohol somehow incorporated into the ink, but it’s totally safe on our acrylics.

So we are mostly back to business as usual! We have procedures in place that will ensure our safety, but I wanted to give everyone this update.

Everyone please use all precautions and stay healthy!

Brian at Edison

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Ohio Stay at Home Order and How It Effects Edison

Hi Pen Fans.

As many of you are aware, the state of Ohio has just issued a Stay at Home Order in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. I wanted to outline how this will effect Edison. 

I am asking all of our employees to stay home until further notice. Beyond this, the state has made it clear that businesses should utilize a “Minimum Basic Operation” as needed.

There is a large portion of my job that can be done remotely. My employees will have their computers to also help with remote work from home. My plan is to continue working, but my wife and I will be the only ones here at Edison doing so on location.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, my wife and I will work remotely from home. Then on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, my wife and I will work on location to ship current inventory orders, as well as manufacture and fulfill our Signature Line orders. 

So this means we will be mostly business-as-usual here at Edison. But since it will be a limited staff, things will be running a bit slower. So please have patience regarding timing of communications and order fulfillment.

During work, and especially outside of work, my wife and I will be practicing all precautions.

If anyone has any questions, please reach out, but for now if a fountain pen is a good way of breaking up the boredom, we’re still here to help! We recently updated out Current Inventory with lots of new pens including some amazing materials by Jonathon Brooks, Tim McKenzie, and Mike Allen, as well as our newest model, the Brockton. And of course, custom orders are always welcome!

I will post updates as they are required.

Everyone please exercise all the necessary precautions, and please stay healthy!

Brian at Edison

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Back from Vacation, Current Inventory Updated, San Francisco…

Hi Pen Fans!

Andrea and I recently returned from a sorely needed vacation. We are well rested and settled back in. It’s nice to get away, but after a while I look forward to getting back to work! I’ve been buried in emails this week, but my head is just about above water now.

While we were gone, our crew was able to get a lot of pens made for Current Inventory. If you are interested in a pen without waiting for through backlog, we have well over 300 pens that are ready to ship with no waiting! You can click the link above, or view the slideshow below (if you can’t see the slideshow, please click here). Email me if you have interest in one of these pens.

Part of the reason for making these pens while we were gone was to replenish our stock that is ready to ship, but also to get pens ready for the San Francisco Pen Show, which is not that far away in August.

And speaking of the San Francisco Pen Show – stay tuned! We have plans coming together for a Limited Edition Pen that will be exclusive to San Francisco! We’ve never attended the San Francisco show before, so we’re going to do so with a splash! Stay tuned as the show gets closer for details regarding this pen and other pens that we’ll be bringing.

Lastly, expect more updates and details to follow in the near future. Now that we are back from vacation, we’re back to work on lots of new items to follow this year. Stay tuned!

Thanks!

Brian at Edison

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On Vacation!

Hi Pen Fans!

Later this week I’ll be heading out with my family for a sorely needed two-week vacation. We’ve been super busy this year. I haven’t taken a day off since the Holidays, so I’m overdue!

My crew will be here during this time to handle emails and orders. But with my wife and I gone, they will be busier than normal. So email responses could be delayed a little. If you need my direct attention, I’ll be back the 3rd week of July.

Happy Summer!

Brian at Edison

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Happy Holidays From Edison! See you in the New Year!

Hi Pen Fans!

We are wrapping up for the year. If you need my attention I will be working on emails after the New Year. I’d truly like to thank all of our fans and customers for supporting us so that we can continue doing what we love!

2018 saw a lot of new things happen here at Edison, mostly being a lot of new machinery. During the Holiday break, I will get some work done on a nice video blog showing our new facility and machines and will publish as soon as I can. So stay tuned!

Thanks!

Brian at Edison

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On Vacation!

Hi Pen Fans!

My family and I are taking a much needed 2 week vacation.

Perhaps a lot of you know, but we had a lot of new machinery arrive that has dominated my time, and there’s been little light at the end of the tunnel. Coding every program for every part for every pen then proving them on the new machinery is a huge job (on top of my normal routine), and I’m just getting started! So a break from work is in order!

I will be staying away from emails during this time. If you need my direct attention, it could be July 16th or 17th when you hear from me.

Happy Summer!

Brian at Edison

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Thanks for a Great Year! Taking Time Off Until 2018!

Hi Pen Fans!

We are wrapping up for the year and I wanted to put out a thank you to all of our customers and wish everyone Happy Holidays!

This year was pretty unique for us in that we moved our business to a new and much larger location, celebrated our 10 year business anniversary, hired more employees, and experienced some pretty significant growth overall which will certainly continue into 2018.

Our employees have much deserved vacation saved up, and Andrea and I need a break as well. We will be shut down from today until the New Year. I will not be fielding emails until 2018.

I’d like to thank each of our customers for your support! We truly enjoy what we do, and couldn’t do this without you!

See you in 2018!

Brian at Edison

The Edison Team at our Holiday Dinner! Thank You!