Tonight, while doing some cleaning, I came across and old bent crossbow bolt. "I wonder if the inside diameter of this thing will match the outside diameter of a pen tube?" thought I. I proceeded to cut the arrow in two with a tubing cutter. Nope, it wouldn't fit; ID on the arrow shaft was too big. "Aha!...what about the slimline blank you were turning that chipped out in the center?" Nope. The outside diameter of the slimline was larger than the inside diameter of the arrow shaft. To speed the story along, the chipped blank was mounted back onto the mandrell and sanded to fit inside the arrow shaft. After CA glue-up and trimming, the painted finish was sanded off, and the aluminum was polished down to 0000 steel wool, then waxed. When assembled with a black enameled hardware kit from CSUSA, the dang thing looks pretty good! Now for the questions: will the CA really stick to the aluminum outer layer? Will the wood layer expand/contract and break the bond, leading to failure? What do ya'll think?