budnder
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This definitely falls into the territory of the old joke..."Can you tell me how to get to ________ from here?.... and the reply after a considered pause... Well, I wouldn't start from here." So, yes, I know this is going to way too much effort when another click mechanism would be more to my tastes. But it's a fun brainstorming exercise.
@magpens and I have talked a few times about how concealing some of the lower tier would help the look of the mechanism atop a pen. So I got to thinking about how you could encase the whole lower mechanism. I've been also anyway that a way to combat the spindly appearance (eye of the beholder, i know...) of these long body clickers would to have a decorative center band to break up the length. To assemble the pen, you first glue a "clicker tomb dome" onto the top. Then you screw the SKM88 onto the top of an insert "tube" that you then insert into the bottom of the upper body. The insert tube threads into the dome you glued in place. That insert tube provides the center decorative center band and could be glued or threaded into the lower body.
It would be a fat pen - I measured this design to be 0.7" at the center girth of the wood on the upper body.
Here's a couple of pics (I'm just showing the upper body):
@magpens and I have talked a few times about how concealing some of the lower tier would help the look of the mechanism atop a pen. So I got to thinking about how you could encase the whole lower mechanism. I've been also anyway that a way to combat the spindly appearance (eye of the beholder, i know...) of these long body clickers would to have a decorative center band to break up the length. To assemble the pen, you first glue a "clicker tomb dome" onto the top. Then you screw the SKM88 onto the top of an insert "tube" that you then insert into the bottom of the upper body. The insert tube threads into the dome you glued in place. That insert tube provides the center decorative center band and could be glued or threaded into the lower body.
It would be a fat pen - I measured this design to be 0.7" at the center girth of the wood on the upper body.
Here's a couple of pics (I'm just showing the upper body):