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Originally Posted by tea lady  Thinking out loud here, But maybe you could spread epoxy or whatever resin it is on a silicon baking sheet, lay feather on it and roll up round the tube like a swiss roll.  |
turn up a mandrill with your 2 tube sizes , and use plasticine to jamb the tubes to the mandrel you need 2 inchs of mandrel sticking out both ends , oil up the tubes ( spray olive oil works well )
, swiss roll it in glad rap , so twice around the tube , then add the heavily resined up feather as you roll , , 1 1/4 turns is best , avoid wrinkling up the glad rap by keeping it tight ( to tight and you pull the glad rap off the tube ) , keep the glad rap short of the ends of the mandrel so you can vacuum bag it up using mastic around the mandrill to seal the bag , and suck the air out ,bind the out side in insulation tape to hold the pressure on then , then let the vacuum off ,(the vacuum makes the bubbles bigger )
if you have a pressure pot , cure it in that ,
once hard strip it off the tube (cut the mandrel and sand until the side of the tube appears if its stuck ) , and you have an over lap round feather , trim the overlapping edges straight and paint the inside with a good colour then glue it to the tube ,then cast in clear ( no wonder blanks are not for sale )
glad rap works well as a table cover as well
your right its impossible , just use small feathers , a lot easier but still impossible, i love this site when the guru's do the impossible
feather problem 
Might have to actually try one now! Not that I make pens.
