I do like the 1/8" segments (3 on the left), but not necessarily moreso than your previous designs with bigger segments. . I like both and I think each has its beauty.
Now, since you have asked for opinions, I have something else to raise: .......
..... I have bought a few of your blanks like the above. I will voice my opinion and see if others resonate or not with my view. . First let me say, that when I bought them, they came direct from you and they were ... well ... affordable, then.
But as regards the overall design ... I found out pretty quickly that most of your blank designs don't lend themselves naturally to go with very many pen kits, and that has been a deterrent for me. . Specifically, in designs like you show above, the end caps just don't fit in for some choice of pen kit.
For example, if I wanted to make Sierra Click pens, I could not get two pens out of one of the above blanks. . So I would make one pen out of the middle section and the rest would be difficult to use. . I hate to waste any part.
Also, if you want to make a Jr. Anything, then you have to include a portion of the end cap into both parts of the pen kit and that doesn't always look good due to the center band. . Or you could use two of your blanks and make both halves of Jr. Anything look almost identical ... but needless to say, using two of your blanks to make one pen is very expensive.
Lately, I have been making single barrel cigar pens, and I like to use a fully patterned length of 4.37" (of course, I could include a portion of each end cap symmetrically to get that, but I don't much like the result ... the shortened end caps seem to artistically clash geometrically with the hardware ends of the kit ... nib and finial).
Some of your designs are "half" patterned and "half" plain and I can use those fine because they usually have very short end caps and I can get the 4.37" I need.
Would it be possible for you to make some of your designs without any end caps at all ? . That would be better for me, because I could get one single barrel cigar, or I could get 2 Sierra Clicks (I don't like Sierra Twists). . I think that you might use end caps to kind of "hide" what is going on inside ... you know the internal structure which is sometimes not symmetrical and I don't understand why that is either ... I think it would be really easy to make the internals symmetric. In fact, making the internals symmetric around the axial hexagonal center "rod" would be better because the patterned part would then suit just about every pen kit without risking the "show through" of internals when you turn the blank down to the diameter to suit the kit ... I hope you get my meaning.
I realize that I am taking a risk of offending you, Joe, by making the above comments in a public forum. . That is furthest from my intentions. . I want to say that I have the utmost admiration for your pen blank artistry and I want everyone to know that.
But perhaps by making these comments in public there may be something constructive (to you, Joe) that will come out of it, and perhaps also, some enlightenment for me.
The essence of my suggestion is that you leave off the end caps, and offer fully patterned blanks as well as half-and-half blanks (patterned/plain).
Thanks, Joe.