When Idea's Crash

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I wasn't happy with this pen when I created it. But I decided to finish it anyway. The inlay kinda flopped and the meager try at a CA finish did flop. It is Bloodwood and wild Cherry. On a matte gold comfort pen, without any comfort. I have one thing to say, is that it is flashy. I decided to make this my daily user as my other user is wore out. Comments, good, bad and UGLY are welcome. TIA
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Hey Steve, thats how you learn. Figure out what you did wrong with the segmentation and use it to better the next one. The wood colors look good together. And the plating works pretty good too. Nice effort and go get em on the next one.
By the way, my first couple of segs never even made it to the lathe. Maybe bad drilling and some just fell apart.
 

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The main thing I find wrong with this pen, is the kit.


If you used a gunmetal or matt black kit, it would do a lot to tone the pen down.


The kit used currently is way to bling bling.


But the idea is there![;)]
 

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I looks like you were trying to take dovetailed joinery and make a pen from it.
Other than a little chip near the nib and something undetermined near the clip,
what else isn't what you were expecting?
 

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Yep, it's dovetail joinery. Just experimenting, and I'm not a fan of gold, so that is why I grabbed that kit. I may tear the whole thing apart and chalk it up to learning. Oh and the chip, I didn't even notice till I looked at the pic here, musta happend when I popped the bushing loose.
 

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Steve,
Hang on tight, even though you may not feel that this pen is attractive, remember that there is a pen for everybody. You never know, that may be a beauty to someone.

practice, learn, evolve, keep going
 

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Originally posted by toolcrazy
<br />Yep, it's dovetail joinery. Just experimenting...
I'm certain you're on to something nice.
If it was just the tails and pins without any of the boards I
think it might be more interesting.
You'd probably need to begin with at least 3/4" thick boards.
Hand-cut DTs that aren't evenly spaced could be used so that the
kerf wouldn't affect one of the pairs when you separate the blank
for upper and lower halves. Now you've got my curiosity awake. [:p]
 

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Well, it did it. This pen sold a pen for me. I don't carry a real nice pen because my job just destroys them.

Gary,
You idea is really what I was experimenting toward. But, as you said, I'm on the right track. Thanks.
 
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