I’m still working on the special pen… the pen body section is now complete and polished, the cap is still being a bit of a pain. Sat and spent time hand-sawing the blank to make sure the lines were spot on, drilled a pilot hole which went well, drilled the final hole…. which at 13mm was quite close to the blank size. Went about 1mm off line, but still ok….. came to put the tube in and the damn thing stuck halfway down. Had to cut it and put it back in from the other side.
Popped it on the lathe, and it blew apart – the glue that held it in place when it stuck wasn’t enough to hold it together. Managed to re-glue it down ok, but some of the colour line had been damaged and it didn’t look right – plus a 3mm section of the main line had broken out at the end.
So, another failure and I had the joy of having to lathe it off to regain the tube for the next attempt…