Karas Pen Club

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Karas Pen Club where pen shenanigans reign!

The Karas Pen Club was started as a way to roll a whole bunch of cool stuff into one package and offer all of that “stuff” to our biggest customers and most loyal fans. In January 2025, we launched the 8th year of the Karas Pen Club to much fanfare and grandeur, well maybe a single kazoo and a shot of whiskey in a semi-clean glass. The main goals of the Karas Pen Club remain the same, here are a few of those “goals”.

  • A collectible challenge coin produced every year grants entrance into the Club.
  • Early Access and Special Pricing on many Special and Limited Releases.
  • Pen Club Exclusive releases throughout the year.
  • Quarterly Coupon Codes.
  • Access to the Pen Club Facebook group.
  • Sneak Peeks and prototype reveals via the Pen Club Newsletter and Facebook group.
  • Prototype, discontinued limited releases, one-off products, and other products sold via spreadsheet in the Karas Pen Club Facebook.

What are these shenanigans we’re referring to? Several of our employees interact with Club Members via the Facebook group often, and we frequently send out feedback forms to our Pen Club Members to improve the Club but also our products and shopping experiences. The 2023 and 2024 Pen Club members have played an integral role in this website’s design and in testing the functionality of it. In all, the Karas Pen Club is a way to interact with some amazing people who love our business and our products and has become a valuable member of the Karas Team.

Current Pen Club Exclusives

In 2024, we focused on adding Pen Club exclusive grip profiles for the Modal and Pocket Modal. The Speed-Groove profile was discontinued several years ago after a short period of use, but we decided to resurrect it and offer it solely to the Pen Club this year.

In 2025, we’re utilizing select Cerakote colors as the first initial Exclusives with the addition of some resurrect colorways, The Monsoon being one of the first. Vertex Exclusives are planned for mid-late 2025. We are also looking at Commemorative style releases and Limited Editions that are curated, serialized, and very small in quantities.

Collaborators & Accomplices

At various times, we like to partner with talented experts in different fields to create Pen Club Exclusive releases with these collaborators and accomplices. We partnered with Rickshaw Bags with the release of a few custom Waldo pen cases. Don Knox is a frequent collaborators in creating etched, patinated, and extremely worn versions of our copper pens (see images at the right). Ishmael Salleh is a frequent accomplice of ours in creating the coin artwork and art for our non-metal fountain pens that come with a custom case. Shire Post Mint continues to be our one-stop-shop for all things related to stamping and coins. We plan to add more collaborators in the coming years and a very special one in 2025.

Previous Karas Pen Club Exclusive Releases

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What Makes a Knox Pen Special?

Speaking of Don Knox and his beautiful “Shipwreck” pens, what exactly makes them so special? Force patina on copper is necessarily a new thing, it’s been done for ages for interior design items. Our use of it on pens was something different in the pen world. There were other force-worn pen treatments, but not many with solid copper because there weren’t many people making pens out of copper. The idea wasn’t solely ours, it was a combination of finding a copper pen that had sat in coolant for years which has slowly evaporated and naturally started to age, and Don Knox stopping by and seeing that pen. It prompted him to say “hey, I could do that on your copper pens, etching it and then coating it with blue or green”. What resulted was a very small batch of pens that looked like they’d been pulled up from the bottom of the ocean. Blue and green patina over deeply etched copper that looked hundreds of years old. They’ve become a popular release once or twice a year, and we still partner with Don to get them done. Another release will be heading out to his shop soon, and one or two of the models will be Pen Club Exclusives.