Here's my entry into the PENUGLY WALL of SHAME. It displays all the features that I've been trying to avoid when crafting a pen. The list is endless but here goes...
1. scratched plating on nib, guess that Vicegrips should not be used as a 'gentle' removal tool
2. mismatched grain orientation. Horizontal lines on one half and solid vertical grain on the other half. Guys if you dress like I've dressed this pen, get help,NOW. Sorry, but even the finest tailor can not help with this poor styling
3 centreband blew out and was 'out of round' to begin with. I've tried adding a belt to the midsection but it doesn't help. Perhaps suspenders may do the trick
4 clip is a leftover from another <s>'dead specie'</s>pen. Don't ask, it just died in another life, OK.
5 Pen writes but has a tendency to <s>hick-up </s>er, I mean skip
I can usually come up with some redeeming qualities as to why I should keep a pen but this one has me stumped. I'm burying this one in the abyss in the hope of allowing 'it' to escape the annals (no not anal) although come to think of it, it, it does smell funny. No Docstram did not give me any of his 'stinky' wood for this pen. Seems that he gave it all away to Skye. Yah, sky, that's the ticket, throw 'it' in the sky and may it never land on earth again. May my pen soul be forgiven for creating such an ugly abortion.
-Peter-