Could've anything else went wrong with this pen? First I cut the blank to size, mixed up some epoxy to glue in the tubes. Applied some epoxy to a tube and realized I never even drilled them. I cleaned all the epoxy off the tube and drilled the blanks. The turning went okay. When I started to press the upper barrel, the clip just fell off, snapped right in half for no apparent reason. Luckily I had a spare clip from some previous fiasco. This time when pressing in the finial, there was no resistance whatsoever. I had to glue that part in. Picked up the finished lower barrel and must have had some CA on a finger which ended up on the barrel. So that had to be completely refinished. Finally everything was assembled. Putting in the refill, I found the kit was missing the spring. So I had to rob a spring from another kit to finish this one. Now I have another kit without a spring and Exotic Blanks appear to be sold out. The pen is made from a hybrid blank, walnut burl and Alumilite Clear. Last picture is AI generated.
The Pen That Didn’t Want To Be A Pen
- Thread starter KenB259
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Monty
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Sometimes it seems that nothing will go right and maybe one should just put it off for a day or so. But it looks like you recovered ok in the end. Pen looks great. 
mark james
IAP Collection, Curator
Final turned pen is great. Yea, sh.t happens, but you rolled with the punches and came out with a great pen - kudos!