Drstrangefart
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It's got some rough edges, to be sure. I figured I'd take a crack at it as a box of most excellent blanks showed up today. My process was as such: Grab an old piece of Bradford Pear. Thick CA the blank cutoff to the end. Go to bandsaw and trim wood down to the same dimensions as the resin. Cut it to length, chuck it up in the 4 jaw, and turn away. I have some lessons to learn here, but I actually got it!!! The first bad thing was getting it to stay centered. Had to re-center it by eyeballing it 5 or 6 different times. Once I moved the tool rest and forgot to turn the lathe off. Hit the spinning blank and blew the resin off the wood. Glued it back down after I threw a few things across the room. I really needed to be more careful about the edge at the clip ring and kept it sharper. Got carried away with MicroMesh and polished more off than expected. But, I got it done, and feel pretty accomplished with it. I also should have softened the edge of the pen barrel at the clip ring to make it all look cleaner. Next time!!!