Originally posted by ozmandus
<br />Not to sound too amateurish, but when you make the center band.. do you glue that to the cap and turn together or is the band turned separately[?][
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I like the pen.
No, ask anything you want!
I turn down the top till I get close to my final size. Then I take a chisel and turn the area the band is located all the way down to the brass tube.
Take the band, which is just a small piece of wood with a 7mm hole, and use the barrel trimmer on it, both sides. Helps to put a slimline tube over the trimmer to snug against the hole.
Take the cap off the mandrel, squirt on some thick glue. Take the band, shoot some accelerator on it. Smash the two together and press them very hard by hand. They'll bond quickly.
Put it all back on the lathe, turn down the band till it matches the rest of the cap, turn to final size.
Something I learned off Russ' site.
http://www.woodturnerruss.com/Pens.html