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Our follow-up pen to the Render K, the Bolt, was launched via Kickstarter the next year and became the best-selling machined pen Kickstarter for quite some time. The pen itself has continued that trend remaining a top selling pen of ours even as we've made multiple engineering changes to streamline and improve the function of the Bolt. The pen was standardized in length in 2016, and in 2019 had the J-slot moved upwards. With no side-button actuation, rather the pen functions with a knob, it's a unique design that provides considerably more durability than many of the standard bolt-action pens.

In for a three-peat on Kickstarter, the Retrakt was envisioned as a standard-style rollerball pen that drew from the history of the ballpoint. We partnered with Schmidt in Germany who produces the click mechanisms for this release. Initially released in two-tone anodized aluminum color-schemes that referenced Parker ballpoint pens from the 70s and 80s; we later added numerous other colors and materials. Updates to the Retrakt included a stronger mechanism made out of stainless steel which vastly increased the durability of that part and the pen itself. In late-2025 we officially discontinued the Retrakt due to declining popularity and our desire to design and launch an updated standard-sized, retractable rollerball pen.

In 2014, we branched out into fountain pens and desktop pen holders. The INK fountain pen was designed with an eye toward adapting the classic fountain pen aesthetics to a modern, industrial form. Though we've since made upgrades to the INK in terms of the nib size and grip design, externally the pen hasn't changed. Alternatively, we formed a partnership with Dudek Modern Goods to adapt their machined wooden CUBE into one made out of metal. Though Dudek Modern Goods has ceased operations, we continue to make our version and we've expanded to include versions with pockets, slots, 21 and 99 holes, and a variety of finishes.

The decision was made to move off Kickstarter for our late-2015 re-release of the re-engineered Render K and new Fountain K, which turned out to be fortuitous. This allowed us to begin releasing new pens directly to our website with the first of these being our pocket pen, the EDK. Designed around the smooth liquid rollerball Schmidt P8126 refill, the EDK was meant to be a beater pen. All of the versions were initially released in tumbled raw metals along with a matte black anodize. The EDK was a collaborative release suggested by a few fans who'd hacked together the Bolt lower body and Retrakt upper body. We took it one step further with the EDK launch. In mid-2025, we made the decision to discontinue and retire the EDK while we focus on developing a new pocket-sized click pen.

The time was ripe for us to take another chance, and this time it wasn't JUST a new pen but a new pen designed with the intention of being machined from non-metal resins. The resurgence of fountain pens had brought a new customer base to our company, and they frequently requested a more traditional styled pen that could be made out of acrylic or other plastics. The Decograph was our response, drawing on the classic designs of fountain pens from the 1930s & 1940s, if features six separate parts machined in-house that complete the external design of the pen. It required new machinery, new tooling, and new polishing methods for us to pull off. The Decograph is currently in semi-retirement though we continue to release custom-colored aluminum versions while we reassess the future of the pen.

Coming on the heels of the Decograph, the design of our next non-metal pen was in a completely different direction. Where the Decograph drew heavily on the classic design language of pens with a lot of parts, the Vertex form and function is far more futuristic. An non-standard grip that transitions into the body in a way that provides a pseudo-ink window in a pen that uses a snap-cap system, no external threads, and features far more curves than straight lines was a new adventure for us. This experiment ended up being our second-most popular pen just behind the Bolt, and by-far our most popular fountain pen even though it doesn't have a clip. The Vertex doesn't look like the average fountain pen, and it's style and simplicity have made it massively popular.

Over a decade of requests for a deep pocket carry, side-actuated, bolt-style pen were finally answered in 2023 when we put our brains and brawn into the design and manufacture of the Modal. The modified checkmark-style bolt slot and smooth, low-profile button along with an internally mounted clip and smooth-actuating Delrin slider, the Modal feels like the logical successor to the Bolt. However, there's enough differences even though they share a common lower body, that the two pens coexist nicely in our catalog. Though we toiled with a few minor hiccups in the clip design, by mid-2024 we'd worked through all those issues, and added a shortened version the Pocket Modal to fully flesh out the Modal as our latest retractable pen.