kaydubya
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Having made a hundred or so pens and experimented with a number of different styles of kit, I've just made my first Sierra. When assembled, the extended writing tip only just protruded beyond the end of the nib body by about 1 to 2mm. I've had this happen on odd occasions with other kits, but have been able to correct the problem by trimming a few millimetres off the end of the turned blank. Unfortunately with the design of the Sierra, that wouldn't help. I solved the immediate problem by robbing a mechanism from another Sierra kit, but I'm worried that if the mechanism from the first kit I used was faulty, others are likely to be the same. Has anyone else experienced inconsistency in Sierra mechanisms?