Thanks guys! These blanks were actually the first ones that I ever bought a little over six months ago when I first learned about pen making. I showed the blanks to my friend that taught me how to make pens and he made some comments that I now understand. Something like . . . multiple bottles . . . CA . . . blow out . . . Clint . . . those are your first ones? . . . save them . . . and so on. Of course I tried one of them for my first pen on my own and lets just say, it didn't work out.
I almost had a big disaster just as I was about done with the pen. I put so much CA on this thing that I pulled a piece of wood off of the cap, all the way to the tube, when I took the bushings off. It was only about one millimeter by three millimeters but would have ruined the pen. I VERY carefully used my pen mill and shorted the cap tube and blank down just past the chip. It was a big relief to solve such a big disaster so easily and I don't think anyone would ever notice the minor shortening.
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