I ran out of time and energy for making some holiday gifts this year. I really like the Retro 51 Tornado pens, and thought laser engraving some with the recipients’ names would make for fine gifts. It really worked out well, including my test piece with the Evermore ambigram.

I also made some funky hex boxes for the pens in their original tubes to serve as gift wrapping. I wish I had taken the time to manually adjust the kearning/line spacing for the names on the fronts of the boxes. I was rushing to get them done, and was twitchy about burning through too much of my stash of this favorite discontinued violet stock.

The pattern for the box is in the Subscriber Archive, if you want to make one.

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