Thanks all,
I can say with great certainty the picture does not do the finish on the antler justice.
I normally have CA on my fingers so I run the pen over my lip to find the rough spots, there aren't any.It's glass all the way around,even the "pithy" spots.
As for the "crest"
I had a request for a "staghorn pen"
It is one thing to have the "bark" show on a pen by accident, quite another to do it on purpose.
This was the fourth blank trying to get it on purpose.
Finding a piece with a shallow enough arc that was a large enough diameter for a cigar pen took four tries.