Hi, Sorry can't comment on the refills but what a great looking pen, been interested in making that sort of blank, how do you make them? and anyone know if zen kits available in the UK?
regards
Chris
Hello Chris and welcome to the site. Thanks for the kind words.
I do not know about the UK suppliers. I am sure some of the members here will be able to help with that.
What I do know is how I made this blank. This is a segmented blank. There are a couple different ways to doing blanks like this. You can use the stave method which requires cutting small strips of material cut in a stave design. (Think wine barrels) Then you can sandwich the highlighted color material which in this case is the black acrylic between the staves as you glue the blank up. The end rings are pretty self explanatory.
But what I do, because I do other type blanks that use this look, I use a router to cut slots in a round blank and infill with my contrasting color. I run the router on a jig I made some time ago. It works quite well and I can do all kinds of neat things with it. I have shown a few pen ideas here before. While I was recuperating I thought of a few more ideas and another way to use the jig so I will be doing that over some time in the near future. If you want to see the jig and read about it here in the Segmenting forum.
www.penturners.org/forum/f179/my-jig-104253/
That Segmenting Forum is a wealth of great info and photos of great looking segmented pens. If you have segmenting questions that is the place to ask. The world of segmenting is at your finger tips. Check out the thread titled
www.penturners.org/forum/f179/no-comments-just-post-new-segmented-pens-likes-111419/
Mike started that thread a few years ago and any segmented pens are encouraged to be placed in there for future references. It is a wealth of some great looking segmented pens. You do not find this stuff anywhere else on the net.
