A fantastic Pen Scott.
Love your concept and Exercution.
Thanks for the Photograph of the Blanks and the Segmentation.
I am puzzled a little as the Blank in WIP, shows an Amber, Tan Colour, yet the finished Pen is predominiately Bluish.
Did the all the Amber/Tan turn off?
Great Job Scott .
Brian.
When I did the stabilizing I used a opaque blue dye that does not penetrate well but does a nice job of filling cracks and voids with a solid color.
After turning they were basically just a bare wood color.
After I got them turned and sanded I applied blue alumalite dye straight to the wood and used some WTF (wood turners finish) clean it off a little and lighten the color.
I just had to be careful not to get it onto the white segments.
You can't do a full WTF finish because the dye keeps bleeding through.
CA thankfully does not blend well with the dye so it's easy to lock the color in under the CA finish.
I've played around with dye in the stabilizer but I wasn't getting the deep colors I wanted so I started putting the dye right on the wood with nice results.