BSea
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I love making pens, and when they are done, it's not uncommon for me to look them over several times. My wife sees this as somewhat of a compulsion.
SHEESH Women!!
And to make it worse, she's not really a pen person. So of course it's my mission to make her a pen that she will treasure. So from when I started turning, I've been trying to find her something that would knock her socks off. That's a figure of speech you realize. She rarely wears socks. Anyway, she finally told me she wanted a black pen. She wanted it to be rather on the small side too. So I told her to go through the pens I had, and tell me what she liked the best as far as how it felt. She picked out a Euro. She said it was just the right size for her. So then I started thinking of what to make the pen from. I settled on a black tru-stone with gold webbing. Now I'm not a huge fan of tru-stone, especially the harder ones that take so long to turn. And of course the black is supposed to be one of the hardest. And I agree with that BTW.
So to make a long story somewhat shorter. I spent bout 3 hours making her this pen.
Her comment when she saw the finished product was "Oh that is really pretty. It looks like a store bought pen."
That's when the fight started.
On the serious side. I think she really likes the pen. She even asked for a pen bag to keep it from getting scratched in her purse.
This was a challenge on the finial cap because I could use a threaded inset on the tru-stone. I just couldn't get it to thread. So I just had to glue it. But it looks so much better than the gold cap from the kit. I'm also not thilled about the pen polished. It has been through all the MM, novus fine. But it didn't shine like I expected it to. I'll put some ren-wax on it when I find my little container. Maybe that will help it some.
SHEESH Women!!And to make it worse, she's not really a pen person. So of course it's my mission to make her a pen that she will treasure. So from when I started turning, I've been trying to find her something that would knock her socks off. That's a figure of speech you realize. She rarely wears socks. Anyway, she finally told me she wanted a black pen. She wanted it to be rather on the small side too. So I told her to go through the pens I had, and tell me what she liked the best as far as how it felt. She picked out a Euro. She said it was just the right size for her. So then I started thinking of what to make the pen from. I settled on a black tru-stone with gold webbing. Now I'm not a huge fan of tru-stone, especially the harder ones that take so long to turn. And of course the black is supposed to be one of the hardest. And I agree with that BTW.
So to make a long story somewhat shorter. I spent bout 3 hours making her this pen.
Her comment when she saw the finished product was "Oh that is really pretty. It looks like a store bought pen."
That's when the fight started.
On the serious side. I think she really likes the pen. She even asked for a pen bag to keep it from getting scratched in her purse.
This was a challenge on the finial cap because I could use a threaded inset on the tru-stone. I just couldn't get it to thread. So I just had to glue it. But it looks so much better than the gold cap from the kit. I'm also not thilled about the pen polished. It has been through all the MM, novus fine. But it didn't shine like I expected it to. I'll put some ren-wax on it when I find my little container. Maybe that will help it some.
On the serious side, there was no fight. I kinda laughed when she said that, and told her that for penturners that wasn't really a compliment. She really meant well, and more importantly does seem to like the pen.
