Gary Beasley
Member
The wife decided our supply of pens had dwindled a bit too much and we were going to make a few more. She picked out several kits and blanks from the bins for me to work on then proceeded to take up her supervisory position in her armchair in the shop while I worked on them. Wound up assembling an old Navigator kit with some snakeskin blanks that had been finished and bagged with the kit for some reason. Then I made an Olympian with Honduran Rosewood, a Wall Street II with Curly Redwood, a Cigar with Himalayan Teal Burl, another Cigar with an unknown burl, a Comfort twist with Black Mesquite and another Comfort twist with stabilized crosscut spalted poplar. Had another Comfort that failed because the tranny wouldn't go into the upper barrel, don't know if the upper tube was too small or the tranny too big.