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Ok I built a pen today ! NO BIG DEAL right but IMHO it is so dang ugly its pitiful ! My wife says she likes it :O/
Anyway pic to follow tonight ... I duno what I was thiking when I made this pen like this LOL[:I]

I am almost to embarassed to post a pic a this Sierra LOL But I will !!!TONIGHT I promise

Post a pic of what you think is the ugliest pen YOU ever made lets see who wins ..No prize just good fun







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Ok here is my ugly pen LOL so I bumped this to post the pic :O).Deer antler and gawd awful yellow celluloid I didn't have a long enough piece of antler :O/ With all the woods and things I could a used I used that yellow thing ERRRR


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This has to be mine! Funny thing is is this is the second one like it. The first one I did for my wife for fun and she took it to work and 10 people asked to buy it before lunch[:D] So this one is for sale!!!!

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Here's my masterpiece. I figured as long as I was going to put up my super ugly pen I may as well put an unrelated background with it. I made this almost four years ago and I put the tubes together backwards. When you twist the mechanism, the refill goes from sticking out normally to sticking way out. The refill does not retract into the pen. The shape is bad, the finish is bad, the attempted inlay rings are bad and it's beat up from child abuse (my children use/abuse this pen occasionally). I think it's pretty funny and it certainly makes me feel better about my more recent work.

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<br />Yes, Pipes, another ring of black up there would have been much more better. [:p]
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Hey I started to THINK what can I say I had a brain FART LOL !! My BIG mistake LOL...That zsure is a UGLY pen Iam gona knock it apart and redo it thou I think he he there I go thinking again [:D]





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OK, here's my ugly pen and I just completed it today. My first attempt a segmenting and you can tell I didn't do very well. Nothing matches up. Yellowheart and Purpleheart, CA finish.
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Originally posted by Pipes
<br />Ok here is my ugly pen LOL so I bumped this to post the pic :O).Deer antler and gawd awful yellow celluloid I didn't have a long enough piece of antler :O/ With all the woods and things I could a used I used that yellow thing ERRRR


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Some of you will remeber this ugly pen thread a while back I started !! Well MY ugly pen SOLD today for $59.00 [:D]...
Just goes to show ya just never ever know what someone a LIKE [:0]




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Here's mine. It's lignum vitae teacher pen, with my first attempts at segmenting, or whatever you call it. These aren't oops bands. Since the pen has 2 colors, I wanted to identify each end. The bloodwood end didn't turn out too badly, except that it's too fat for the nib. The bocote end was originally blackwood cross-cut, but I didn't have the skill to pull it off, so I replaced it with bocote. I didn't clean if off with DNA, before I finished it, which caused major splotching. Most of the splotching is hidden on the back of the pic. This was a gift for my son and was one of my first pens I did. I hate this shape.
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I hadn't noticed how old this thread was. Oh, well. For the record: Below is a pen I made that was the winner of an ugly pen contest on the 'other' [;)] forum. It ended up in the hands of another members young daughter who loves it.



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I still think my antler I stuck that stupid GOLD opps band on in a moment were I was thinking is the worst !! I know I should never go into deep thought and try I said TRY and THINK iam some kina artist LOL !! When I do !!!! well you see what happens [:I] My wife liked thew dman thing I hated it ! she also said it would sell and I guess she was right [:0][:I]





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Originally posted by Rifleman1776
<br />I hadn't noticed how old this thread was. Oh, well. For the record: Below is a pen I made that was the winner of an ugly pen contest on the 'other' [;)] forum. It ended up in the hands of another members young daughter who loves it.



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This shouldn't have won an ugly pen contest- I think it's great! And that's 100% serious!
 
Angboy, it won by a big margin. Pastor Bill had one that I thought should have won but, I guess, he is sorta blessed. [;)] My 'winner' is made from a failed Euro (upper barrel) a left over hunk of blank from an Eagle blank and a left over hunk of the Pink Tree of Glen Rose Texas sent by Johnny of TPS. It might look like acrylic, but y'all know I don't do no plastics. [:eek:)]
 
I make a habit of giving my my wife the first pen of any new kits I try. You all know what happens to CA when applied while the lathe is on. I got frustrated with a Euro that was giving me fits. In this case I got a little crazy seeing how radical I could get applying CA at a fairly high speed then using accelerator. The end result was a pen that looked like it came out of the cats litter box! [:D] I took that to my wife "look honey" and we both got a good laugh out of it. She later threw it away. I wish I had taken a pic, it would have one hands down.
 
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<br />I make a habit of giving my my wife the first pen of any new kits I try. You all know what happens to CA when applied while the lathe is on. I got frustrated with a Euro that was giving me fits. In this case I got a little crazy seeing how radical I could get applying CA at a fairly high speed then using accelerator. The end result was a pen that looked like it came out of the cats litter box! [:D] I took that to my wife "look honey" and we both got a good laugh out of it. She later threw it away. I wish I had taken a pic, it would have one hands down.
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I don't know whats wrong with puting CA on with the lathe running I have a VS Nova Mercury and turn it down all the way to super slow like 3 to 400 RPM and have ZERO problems I just put the ca on a paper towel and run it across the pen seems to work for me I normaly have to RESAND a bit on the first coat but after that its like glass ! all I do then is use some Hut plastic polish and then a flannel cloth and Iam done all in about 5 min or less !! So my question is what happens when you apply CA with the lathe on am I missing somthing here ?? Iam serious ! [?][:I] ...






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I think if a pen sells or someone takes it because they like it then it shouldn't be allowed as an ugly pen. Now, the one I submitted is still in my display case and the best comment was "interesting".
 
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Originally posted by Scottydont
<br />I make a habit of giving my my wife the first pen of any new kits I try. You all know what happens to CA when applied while the lathe is on. I got frustrated with a Euro that was giving me fits. In this case I got a little crazy seeing how radical I could get applying CA at a fairly high speed then using accelerator. The end result was a pen that looked like it came out of the cats litter box! [:D] I took that to my wife "look honey" and we both got a good laugh out of it. She later threw it away. I wish I had taken a pic, it would have one hands down.
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I don't know whats wrong with puting CA on with the lathe running I have a VS Nova Mercury and turn it down all the way to super slow like 3 to 400 RPM and have ZERO problems I just put the ca on a paper towel and run it across the pen seems to work for me I normaly have to RESAND a bit on the first coat but after that its like glass ! all I do then is use some Hut plastic polish and then a flannel cloth and Iam done all in about 5 min or less !! So my question is what happens when you apply CA with the lathe on am I missing somthing here ?? Iam serious ! [?][:I] ...

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Nope, not missing anything but my details, sorry. I do CA with the lathe running on low speed just fine most of the time. This just happened to be one of those times where I was being to impatient and had a combination of too high of a speed and to much CA! [;)]
 
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