Military

Sierra and Bolt embedded blanks with Rockwell B-1B Lancer Bomber.

All blanks will come with one COA per blank.
COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with foil COA seal.

The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force. It is commonly called the "Bone" (from "B-One"). It is one of three strategic bombers in the U.S. Air Force fleet as of 2021, the other two being the B-2 Spirit and the B-52 Stratofortress.

Sierra and Bolt embedded blanks with  WW1 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a wing cloth.

All blanks will come with one COA per blank.
COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with foil COA seal.

The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a was one of the most successful British fighter aircraft of World War I. Designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory, the S.E.5a was an improved version of the earlier S.E.5, with enhanced performance and handling characteristics. It first flew in 1917 and quickly became a favorite among Allied pilots due to its speed, stability, and powerful armament.

The S.E.5a was powered by a 200-horsepower Hispano-Suiza engine, later replaced by the more reliable Wolseley Viper engine in some models. This engine gave the aircraft a top speed of around 138 mph, making it one of the fastest fighters of its time. Its armament consisted of a synchronized Vickers machine gun firing through the propeller and a Lewis gun mounted on the upper wing, providing a formidable combination for air combat.

The S.E.5a was known for its excellent maneuverability and robustness, making it highly effective in dogfights. It was flown by several of the war’s top aces, including Albert Ball, Billy Bishop, and Edward "Mick" Mannock. The aircraft played a crucial role in maintaining air superiority on the Western Front during the latter part of the war.

With over 5,000 units produced, the S.E.5a continued to serve with distinction until the end of the war in 1918. Its legacy as one of the finest fighters of World War I remains well-regarded in aviation history.

Sierra and Bolt embedded blanks with Sikorsky EH-60A Black Hawk Military Helicopter.

All blanks will come with one COA per blank.
COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with foil COA seal.

The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility military helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. Sikorsky submitted the S-70 design for the United States Army's Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System (UTTAS) competition in 1972. The Army designated the prototype as the YUH-60A and selected the Black Hawk as the winner of the program in 1976, after a fly-off competition with the Boeing Vertol YUH-61.

Named after the Native American war leader Black Hawk, the UH-60A entered service with the U.S. Army in 1979, to replace the Bell UH-1 Iroquois as the Army's tactical transport helicopter. This was followed by the fielding of electronic warfare and special operations variants of the Black Hawk. Improved UH-60L and UH-60M utility variants have also been developed. Modified versions have also been developed for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. In addition to U.S. Army use, the UH-60 family has been exported to several nations. Black Hawks have served in combat during conflicts in Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Somalia, Ukraine, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and other areas in the Middle East.

Major variants include the Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk used for naval purposes, Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk for combat search and rescue, and many other types and upgrades including various export, VIP, special operation types. Various upgrades have taken place over the years and the latest version is the UH-60M.

Sierra and Bolt embedded blanks with Sikorsky H-34 Seabat Military Helicopter metal relic.

All blanks will come with one COA per blank.
COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with foil COA seal.

Powered by a single Wright R-1820 radial engine, the H-34 Seabat had a top speed of around 123 mph and a range of approximately 200 miles. Its large, roomy cabin could accommodate up to 12 troops or a similar payload, making it invaluable in both military and humanitarian missions. The helicopter featured a distinctive nose-high stance on the ground, with the engine mounted at the front and the cockpit elevated above the cargo area.

The H-34 Seabat was widely used during the Cold War and saw extensive action in the Vietnam War, where it was employed for troop transport, casualty evacuation, and general utility missions. It was also used by the U.S. Marine Corps, Army, and Air Force, as well as by numerous foreign militaries.

Known for its durability and reliability, the H-34 continued to serve in various capacities well into the 1970s, even after more advanced helicopters were introduced. Its legacy includes setting the standard for subsequent helicopter designs and its significant contribution to military aviation history.

Sierra and Bolt embedded blanks with WWII Soviet Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3.

All blanks will come with one COA per blank.
COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with foil COA seal.

The Yakovlev Yak-3 was one of the Soviet Union's most effective fighter aircraft during World War II, earning a reputation as a formidable adversary in the skies over Europe. Developed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau, the Yak-3 was introduced in 1944 and quickly became a favorite among Soviet pilots due to its exceptional agility, speed, and robust performance in combat.

Powered by a Klimov VK-105PF-2 engine, the Yak-3 was a lightweight fighter with a streamlined design that made it highly maneuverable, especially in low-altitude dogfights. Its ability to outmaneuver heavier and more powerful enemy aircraft, such as the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Focke-Wulf Fw 190, contributed significantly to the Soviet Air Force's successes on the Eastern Front. The Yak-3 was armed with a 20mm ShVAK cannon and two 12.7mm Berezin UB machine guns, providing it with sufficient firepower to take down enemy aircraft in close combat.

The Yak-3’s simplicity and durability made it particularly suited for operations from rough, undeveloped airfields, a common scenario on the Eastern Front. This versatility allowed Soviet forces to maintain a high operational tempo during crucial phases of the war.

The aircraft's combat effectiveness was so respected that even the Germans issued orders to avoid engaging the Yak-3 in one-on-one combat. The Yak-3 remained in service after the war and continued to serve as a symbol of Soviet air power. Its legacy endures as one of the finest fighter aircraft of World War II, remembered for its impact on the war and its contribution to the Soviet Union's victory.

US Navy Ship Wood

Blanks are 3/4" x 3/4"

Wooden Wave Blanks are pre-tubed blanks with a label cast of the ship's seal and wood from the ship. These blanks are designed to work with Sierra Clone or Bolt Action pen kits. Sierra Clone tubes are 2-1/4" x 27/64" and Bolt Action Tubes are 1-31/32”.

All blanks are cut as they are ordered.

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After entering service in 1942, the Alabama was deployed to protect convoys in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1943, she was transferred to the Pacific for operations against Japan, helping with the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign that began in November 1943. While operating in the Pacific, she served primarily as an escort for the fast carrier task force to protect the aircraft carriers from surface and air attacks. She also frequently bombarded Japanese positions in support of amphibious assaults. She took part in the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign from June–September and the Philippines campaign from October–December. After a refit in early 1945, she returned to the fleet for operations during the Battle of Okinawa and the series of attacks on the Japanese mainland in July and August, including several bombardments of coastal industrial targets.

The Alabama assisted in Operation Magic Carpet after the war, carrying some 700 men home from the former war zone. She was decommissioned in 1947 and assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet, where she remained until stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 1962.

The USS Alabama was preserved as a memorial museum ship in Mobile Bay, AL.

US Navy Ship wood fibers from the USS Arizona BB-39 Embedded object Blanks

27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones
Custom Tube sizes available upon request.

USS Baltimore

US Navy Submarine Wood

All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal.

All blanks are cut as they are ordered.

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USS Bremerton (SSN-698), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the second vessel of the United States Navy to be named for Bremerton, WA. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, CT on 24 January 1972, and her keel was laid on 8 May 1976. She was launched on 22 July 1978 and commissioned on 28 March 1981.

When USS Los Angeles was decommissioned on 23 January 2010, Bremerton became the oldest commissioned submarine in the US fleet. On that day, Richard O'Kane's cribbage board was transferred from Los Angeles to Bremerton, a tradition that dates back to World War II.

On 20 July 2017, she became the longest-commissioned U.S. Navy submarine, at the time, surpassing USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642). On 6 April 2018, she returned to Pearl Harbor from her 16th and final deployment. When Bremerton was inactive in 2018, the cribbage board was transferred from Bremerton to USS Olympia (SSN-717).

On 20 April 2018, USS Bremerton left Pearl Harbor for the last time en route to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA to enter the submarine recycling program.

Bremerton was officially decommissioned on 21 May 2021, at the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, WA.

USS Brooklyn was a sloop-of-war authorized by the U.S. Congress and commissioned in 1859. Brooklyn was active in Caribbean operations until the start of the American Civil War at which time she became an active participant in the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.

With her one 10-inch gun and twenty 9-inch guns, Brooklyn was a formidable fighting ship that could deliver damaging broadsides, and served on the Atlantic Ocean coast as well as the Gulf Coast of the United States in intercepting blockade runners. Brooklyn also served gallantly attacking Confederate forts and other installations on the Mississippi River.

Post-war, Brooklyn remained active, serving for some years in the European theatre, as well as circumnavigating the globe. She was retired in 1889 and sold in 1890 after having well served her country for over three decades.

US Navy Ship Wood
Embedded object Blanks

27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones

All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal.

All blanks are cut as they are ordered.

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USS California (BB-44) was the second of two Tennessee-class battleships built for the United States Navy between her keel laying in October 1916 and her commissioning in August 1921. The Tennessee class was part of the standard series of twelve battleships built in the 1910s and 1920s, and were developments of the preceding New Mexico class. They were armed with a battery of twelve 14-inch (360 mm) guns in four three-gun turrets. California served as the flagship of the Battle Fleet in the Pacific Ocean for duration of her peacetime career. She spent the 1920s and 1930s participating in routine fleet training exercises, including the annual Fleet Problems, and cruises around the Americas and further abroad, such as a goodwill visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1925.

California was moored in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked the port, bringing the United States into World War II. The ship was moderately damaged by a pair of torpedoes and a bomb, but a fire disabled the ship's electrical system, preventing the pumps from being used to keep the ship afloat. California slowly filled with water over the following three days and eventually sank. Her crew suffered heavy casualties in the attack and four men were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the attack. She was raised in April 1942, repaired and heavily rebuilt, and returned to service in January 1944.

The ship thereafter supported the amphibious operations conducted during the Pacific War, including the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign (though she was damaged in a collision with Tennessee and thus missed the Battle of Peleliu) and the Philippines campaign, during which she took part in the Battle of Surigao Strait. She was hit by a kamikaze during the invasion of Lingayen Gulf in January 1945, after repairs, joined the fleet supporting troops fighting on Okinawa during the Battle of Okinawa. Her crew took part in the occupation of Japan after the end of the war, and after returning to the United States via the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, was laid up in Philadelphia in 1946. She remained in the fleet's inventory until 1959, when she was broken up for scrap.

For Custom Single or Double Tube purchases, please indicate in the checkout notes block what pen kit you need the tubes to fit. All Embedded blanks will ship after May 1st.

USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the third of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794. She is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. Constitution is most noted for her actions during the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom, when she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned her the nickname "Old Ironsides" and public adoration that has repeatedly saved her from scrapping.

Today, Constitution's stated mission today is to promote understanding of the Navy's role in war and peace through educational outreach, historical demonstration, and active participation in public events as part of the Naval History & Heritage Command. As a fully commissioned Navy ship, her crew of 60 officers and sailors participate in ceremonies, educational programs, and special events while keeping her open to visitors year-round and providing free tours.

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The first USS Cumberland was a 50-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy.[1] She was the first ship sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia.

Cumberland began in the pages of a Congressional Act. Congress passed in 1816 "An act for the gradual increase of the Navy of the United States." The act called for the U.S. to build several ships-of-the-line and several new frigates, of which Cumberland was to be one. Money issues, however, prevented Cumberland from being finished in a timely manner. It was not until Secretary of the Navy Abel Parker Upshur came to office that the ship was finished. A war scare with Britain led Upshur to order the completion of several wooden sailing ships and for the construction of new steam powered ships.

Designed by famed American designer William Doughty, Cumberland was one a series of frigates in a class called the Raritan-class. The design borrowed heavily from older American frigate designs such as Constitution and Chesapeake. Specifically, Doughty liked the idea of giving a frigate more guns than European designs called for. As a result, he called for Cumberland and her sister ships to have a fully armed spar deck, along with guns on the gun deck. The result was a heavily armed, 50-gun warship.

US Navy Ship Wood
Embedded object Blanks

27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones

All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal.

All blanks are cut as they are ordered.

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The USS Des Moines (CA-134), the second ship of that name in the United States Navy, was the lead ship of a class of heavy cruisers. She was the first ship in the United States Navy to feature the auto loading Mark 16 8-inch/55 caliber gun, which was the first of its type in the world.

US Navy Ship Wood from the  USS Enterprise (CV-6)

Solid wood Blanks are 3/4" x 3/4"
5" x 3/4" Long blanks 
2.5" x 3/4" Short blanks  
Extra COAs are $2 each

All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with foil embossed COA seal.

All blanks are cut as they are ordered.

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USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name. Colloquially called "The Big E", she was the sixth aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy. Launched in 1936, she was one of only three American carriers commissioned before World War II to survive the war (the others being Saratoga and Ranger). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than any other U.S. ship. These actions included the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, the Guadalcanal Campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, more than any other ship, and was the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II. She was also the first U.S. ship to sink a full-sized enemy warship after the Pacific War had been declared when her aircraft sank the Japanese submarine I-70 on 10 December 1941. On three occasions during the war, the Japanese announced that she had been sunk in battle, inspiring her nickname "The Grey Ghost". By the end of the war, her planes and guns had downed 911 enemy planes, sank 71 ships, and damaged or destroyed 192 more. Enterprise was decommissioned February 17, 1947 just after the end of World War II after just shy of nine years of service.

USS Flint (AE-32/T-AE-32)

$20 - 1.5â" x 5ishâ" round blanks
$15 - 3/4" x 3/4" x 5â" regular blanks
(Some have a slightly rounded corner)

USS Flint (AE-32/T-AE-32) is a Kilauea-class ammunition ship of the United States Navy, and was named after the sparking rock flint (not, as is commonly thought, the city of Flint, Michigan). Flint was constructed at the Ingalls Nuclear Shipbuilding Division, Litton Industries, Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi. The ship was delivered to the United States Navy at Charleston, South Carolina, on 30 August 1971.

US Navy Ship Wood from the   USS Forrestal (CV-59)

5" long wood blanks

27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones
3/8" blanks are for Bolt Action Pens
These two blanks are label cast images of USS Forrestal with bands of wood from the ship on the ends of the blank.

12.5mm & 10.5mm blanks are for JR series pen kits
JR Set blanks are label cast images of USS Forrestal with bands of wood from the ship on the ends of the blanks for the Cap and Post blanks. The Jr Post blank also has coper wire from the ship embedded in the blank.

All blanks will come with one COA per blank or blank set. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with gold foil embossed COA seal.

All blanks are cut as they are ordered.

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US Navy Ship Wood
Embedded object Blanks

27/64" blanks are for Sierra Clones

All blanks will come with one COA per blank. COAs are 4" x 6" card stock with silver foil embossed COA seal.

All blanks are cut as they are ordered.

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USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy (USN) during World War II. Completed in late 1943, the ship was assigned to the Fast Carrier Task Force (variously designated as Task Force 38 or 58) in the Pacific Ocean, the navy's primary offensive force during the Pacific War. In early 1944, she participated in attacks on Japanese installations in New Guinea, Palau and Truk among others. Hornet then took part in the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign and most of the subsidiary operations, most notably the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June that was nicknamed the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" for the disproportionate losses inflicted upon the Japanese. The ship then participated in the Philippines Campaign in late 1944, and the Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign in the first half of 1945. She was badly damaged by a typhoon in June and had to return to the United States for repairs.

After the war she took part in Operation Magic Carpet, returning troops to the U.S. and was then placed in reserve in 1946. Hornet was reactivated during the Korean War of 1950-1953, but spent the rest of the war being modernized to allow her to operate jet-propelled aircraft. The ship was modernized again in the late 1950s for service as an anti-submarine carrier. She played a minor role in the Vietnam War during the 1960s and in the Apollo program, recovering the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 astronauts as they returned from the Moon.

Hornet was decommissioned in 1970. She was eventually designated as both a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark, and she opened to the public as the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, California, in 1998.