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Hive fountain pen in Irish Whiskey Oak

This pen was chosen especially for you.

A small but meaningful gift to celebrate your words, your thoughts, and the moments you choose to put them to paper. Whether you’re jotting down dreams, writing heartfelt letters, or signing your next big idea, may this pen be a reminder of how powerful your words can be.

Wishing you inspiration with every stroke.

Hive Fountain Pen handmade from Irish Whiskey Oak with Antique Brass Trim – Irish Pens


Catherine and Richard Daly hand-turned, assembled, and posted the wooden body of your pen from our workshop in Ireland's heritage capital, Kells, County Meath. 

The wood at the heart of your pen:

Irish Whiskey Oak

The wood in this pen comes from an Irish Whiskey oak barrel, decommissioned from the world-famous Midleton distillery in Co. Cork. We take a stave from the barrel and turn it into this beautiful pen. The colour of the oak has a lovely reddish hue, which comes from the whiskey distilled in it. Turning the pen on the lath generates heat, which liberates the most beautiful aroma of the whiskey it matured; it is like holding a glass of Irish whiskey under your nose. The link between Irish whiskey and the wood from which we craft our pens, and its unique colour, makes pens turned from this wood the perfect gift for the experienced Irish whiskey connoisseur.


  • The trim of your pen:
The trim is Antique Brass with a Honeycomb design. 

    How to fill the pen with ink

    To insert the ink cartridge, unscrew the nib section from the pen and push the ink cartridge into the section until you feel it click into place. A gentle squeeze of the cartridge may be required to get the ink flowing for the first time. 

    If using the ink pump, fit it to the pen in the same way as the cartridge and twist the plunger to expel all the air from the reservoir, place the size 6 medium nib below the ink level in the ink bottle and twist the pump to draw up ink from the bottle, dry off any external ink, you can now reassemble the pen and you are ready to start writing. Use gloves to protect your hands from the ink, and tissue to protect the area from spills. Don’t forget to put the cap back on the bottle!

     

    Keep the cap on the fountain pen when not in use to prevent the ink in the nib from drying out. As with all fountain pens, you can flush the nib and feed to clean them if you notice a change in the ink flow over time. See our website for a video on how to do this.

     

     

     

    At Irish Pens, we are delighted to pay homage to the woods at the heart of our handmade pen by sponsoring the planting of Native Irish Trees in the forest of Avoca, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, through the Tree Council of Ireland's tree sponsorship scheme. A proportion of the sale of your pen has made this possible.

    The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the next best time is now.

    The pen case: 

    Each pen is housed in a satin-lined luxury case and sheathed in a plush black velvet pouch, offering a refined unboxing experience for you, worthy of its heritage.

    We post our pen in a compostable mailer with no bubble wrap, and the bag that holds the pen and the information card is fully recyclable.


    Over four billion plastic pens and their packaging go to landfills in the USA alone yearly. When the refill is empty, change it and keep using your pen. It's all the small things we do that help the environment.