Originally posted by R2
<br />Could not disagree more Randy. Perhaps if you take another look at the overall design you will see why steve has done the pen that way.
Hey Russ: I did take another look at the pen after my first post and realized that some of what I suggested was a little off target. It did escape me, originally, that the pattern was a single pattern carried through the full length of the pen rather than be restricted to each of the two individual parts. I had intended to revise my original comment; but got interrupted and never got back too it. Nonetheless, I stand by my original comment that the one white piece is too large and detracts from the visual balance of the pen.
Steven: These little mechanical conundrums are fascinating to me. I did a little math work on your design and an Autocad drawing to see what would fit the Panache and was totally frustrated as nothing would work. I just reread your original post and discovered that you were incrementing in 1/2 mm steps. I was doing my calculations in 1 mm increments.[
!] I'm going to go back and redo the work and see what kind of solution develops. There has to be a way to make this work.
Just to make sure I fully understand your pattern, could you conform a couple of things for me.
1. Do you recall how much you shaved off the cap tube.
2. Do you recall the approximate length of the one long white piece that got this discussion started?
3. The thinest layer is 1mm thick and each layer increases by 0.5mm. There are 14 layers of each color and the thickest layer would be 7.5mm excepting the bigger white one.
When I have a satisfactory solution, I will pass it along to you in case you decide to make another one......which I think would be a fine thing to do since it is such a good looking pen.
