I got a wood burning pen a while back and finally tried it out. My roommate Faust said he'd like a name plate for his door, and it was his birthday today. He's seen the basics of the writing, but not yet the dragon.

This is the second thing I made with it. The first is a doodle of Powersync and the first attempt at lettering anything, on the back. So now when I have moved out (whenever that will be) he's still got a doodle of my transformers OC that just happens to be on the back of this. Transformers, which he got me into.

The pen was like a $12 thing and I can tell. It writes like a marker that is drying out. My dad has a really nice one so when I go back to the farm I aught to try that one to make sure that the trouble I had using this was actually the quality of the pen and not that it's a new medium. (I assume that it could also /possibly/ be the wood). I can tell that the friction of the pen on the wood, and that the wood develops furrows as a result of how this works, affects the ability to draw the pen across it, and I figure that is how it is going to be with something like this. But it just wasn't burning very well despite even drawing the pen very slowly. Seems like the nib warped at its base as well. I think the threading may have actually melted a little :o