Almost forgot....the blank is YET ANOTHER Brooks' Custom. If my photography skills weren't garbage you'd be able to see that this blank looks like it came from a bubble gum pink tree. The swirling looks like wood grain! AND it's translucent, so you can see through some parts deeper down into some darker marbling.
Here's how it all went down:
I called up Jonathon and said "Hey man, I need blanks for a pen and a stopper. I want one to be pink like a pen I turned way back when. I want it to be pearlescent, and I want it to have more than one shade of pink." Johnathon said, "Sure, let me see what I can do." So I hung up the phone and a couple seconds later I heard a knock on the door.
It was the mail carrier. I thought this was an odd time for the mail carrier to be coming by since it was just after midnight. But apparently Johnathon has sick wizard powers, because it was my blanks! He called the next morning to apologize for the delay in production. He told me that he actually had to make 2 batches because he wasn't entirely happy with the color of the pink. Otherwise it would only have been 1 second instead of two. I informed him that this time I would make due, but that he need to get it together for the next run. :biggrin:
Honestly though, Johnathon (Brooks803) is a master of his craft! I've seen others posting on here about thing I have known for a little while now. Every time someone new tries his blanks out, another person is added to the list of people who understand what I mean when I say "pictures don't do his blanks justice!" If you need anything poured, he's your man.