First let me thank everyone for their compliments. Then let me answer a few specifics. First Bill "Tip" let me pu it this way, I don't cuss, but if I did I would have run out of words for this one. I am no where near the stage of demoing this, unless someone had lots of time and wanted to see me make things up as I go along [
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Now Bill J. Would you believe that the tip used to taper to a narrower point before I broke it off and had to do some creative sanding. The click button is a little smaller as well as the whole upper end of the pen.
I had some problems that still have to be overcome to eliminate the excess hand work involved.
I had an issue with the brass insert breaking loose whiletrying to straighted the upper and lower half. When I added glue and pressed the insert back in, tip got crushed. That is why there are 2 fiber washers at the center, to make up the difference in length after rounding the tip.
I also failed in making the stepped hole inside the tip. There is a very tight tolerance. You have to have a hole that will let the lower end of the refill pass but with a shoulder that will catch the spring. Then a different size hole for the tip to come out through. I couldn't get it on this one with the lower barrel whole, so I cut the tip off and shaved down the plastic tube from the original pen (that has the stepped hole inside) and glued it inside the lower barrel. It worked but not exactly like I planned.
These things and the amount of hand working to get the clip to look and work right is the reason I gave up on the tutorial this time around.
I make no promises this time around, other than to promise I will continue the quest for a lower degree of difficulty on making a pen click pen with all external compontents of wood.
Hang in there with me. I personally love the unpredictability and re-thinking as I go. But I need repeatable results if this will ever be cost effective.
I will add some photos of how I did the clip when I get home.
