plantman
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This pen is a Rockler Gold Spitit. It was made to reppresent the the tree of life in an abstract form. The gold base being Mother Earth, rich and solid. The Walnut trunk shows the strength it takes to hold up the bounty that comes from Nature. The segmented walnut shell and cast upper barrel bears the fruits and leaves of the world. And the final is the crowning jewel of the tree. If you can relate to all that, I have snow to sell in the winter also. The barrels are reversed in size and I only used the upper brass tube. The base was lenghtened and drilled to fit the fittings with no tube inserted. Upper barrel is made from segmented walnut shellss glued on a center core and cast in PR with blue and silver powders added. Final is turned Walnut. Pen was sanded to 900 and finished with 8 coats of thick CA, resanded to 1200 and polished with One-Step Polish. Jim S