Being from Southern California, many of the requests I get for a custom pen include the words, Turquoise and Western. So I had a Big Ben kit and tried to put a cowboy spin on this classic, rather masculine office style writing instrument. I Learned a bit about how to do crosses properly...which I didn't. And I learned that thinner is better when adding banding and detail. Thanks for your interest and thanks in advance for your kind words and feed-back.