pipecrafter
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Take2, also known as "Bollocks! I wonder if I can fix that.".
I had this pen mostly finished, and was putting the cap threads on the end of the body when it self destructed. I decided to rescue it, and used a scrap of ebonite left over from a stem to replace the part that imploded. As before, the front section is a Bera El Grande. The hardest part of this was getting the pattern in the material to line up when the cap is fully seated. Lots of little tiny cuts on the lathe...
I sure as heck learned a few things making this one.
I had this pen mostly finished, and was putting the cap threads on the end of the body when it self destructed. I decided to rescue it, and used a scrap of ebonite left over from a stem to replace the part that imploded. As before, the front section is a Bera El Grande. The hardest part of this was getting the pattern in the material to line up when the cap is fully seated. Lots of little tiny cuts on the lathe...
I sure as heck learned a few things making this one.