JimGo
Member
I took my first stab at BOW a few months ago and was NOT happy (see http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7193&SearchTerms=BOW ). My intent was to give it to my aunt as a present, but since I wasn't happy, I had to figure out what to do with it. I decided what the heck, I'll see how it looks with a bloodwood inlay. I tried cutting the bloodwood myself, and soon realized that it was going to be harder than I thought. So, I contacted Mike and Jen Amison (http://www.writenthings.com/) and asked them if they could laser cut both the bloodwood and the BOW to fit. They did a HECK of a job! There are two crosses about 120 degrees apart (hence the pics of both sides of the pen). I glued them into place using the same watered down yellow glue that Ken Nelson recommends for some of his kits, and that seems to have been a good choice. CA/BLO finish for posterity (hopefully).