Three Cracks and you are "OUT"

[maxman400]

Lucky for me it only Cracked twice during assembly, same end same piece of hardware. After the second end cracked, I checked the size of the coupler and it was bigger than the other end so with a little sanding and little fineness it went together. This is red Corian with B/W/B pickguard and White Corian that has been wet sanded through 4K and plastix polished on a Chrome Zen. Third Time's a Charm.
Comments Welcome, and Thanks for Looking. :biggrin:

 

[crabcreekind]

Great Pen!! im a huge fan of the zen

 

[wizard]

Max, That looks great! Love the color combination. Your persistence definitely paid off big time. Thanks for sharing. Doc

 

[workinforwood]

Great looking pen Max

 

[rizaydog]

Nice job Max. I like it.

 

[tt1106]

Very simple looking, yet clean and attractive. Very nice.

 

[boxerman]

Very nice pen. Zen a nice pen. The blank looks like pool ball.

 

[Dalecamino]

Nice segmenting Max. I've never used one of these kits. I'm curious about the sanding. Where exactly did you have to sand to eliminate the cracking? Great recovery though. It looks good.

 

[el_d]

Very nice pen. Zen a nice pen. The blank looks like pool ball.

Sweet Max it does look like it's missing the little #15.

Great work.

 

[Rangertrek]

Great work on that one. I like the color combination also.

 

[maxman400]

Nice segmenting Max. I've never used one of these kits. I'm curious about the sanding. Where exactly did you have to sand to eliminate the cracking? Great recovery though. It looks good.

Chuck I wish it was just a little sanding on the blank, I actually had to cut the whole segmented end that cracked completely off and install a new piece of red with pickguard in it's place (twice). The sanding was done on the coupler where it presses in to the tube. After checking them with a caliper one coupler was slightly larger than the other even after sanding, it still pressed in real tight.