TonyBal
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I just wanted to share my screw-up with you guys so that hopefully it will not happen to you. I just got finished with a beautiful acrylic pen. It had no scratches that I could see under my huge lit X5 magnifying glass that I have attached to my lathe. My wife thinks it is over kill, but I'm a guy. We prefer overkill! Anyway, after I have assembled the pen & am wiping it down before I put it in the dust free plastic tube I notice that the tip of the refill is just barely sticking out of the nib in the closed position. WTH!!! It is a cigar style pen & when I was squaring that blank I must have not been paying attention & went to far on the bottom half. I measured it & sure enough it was just a little shorter than all of the other cigar pens that I made. I have done many pens & never had that happen before. From now on I am really careful when squaring blanks. I just wanted to pass that on to others so that hopefully they can avoid my blunder. Good luck to all!!! :biggrin: