rb765
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This woulda been my first pen made from some found olive wood. It coulda been a very nice pen that I had planned on giving my old boss for Christmas. But, I shoulda waited until I made that trip two blocks away from my house to the hobby store to get a new bottle of thin CA. Getting real close to the final size, then the dreaded shaking started...I stopped the lathe to find a 1/2" section of wood missing near the end of the blank. A little too big to recover from. And it was totally preventable because I had filled the small crack that had been there before with thick CA, but it didn't penetrate far enough to prevent catastrophe. Se La Vi.