Going back some years, a very difficult thing I had to do was to "distress" a set of furniture I had made for a customer. It was really tough to spend all the time care and talent to build very nice furniture, then have to 'beat it up, mar it, spill something on it, and then present it to the customer as the fine furniture it was!. This short story is a lead up to suggest you make the pen look "OLD". It looks new. The stand is and looks old. Make the pen look old too. Think of the wear that occurs in daily use, etc., Then grit your teeth, AND DO IT!