Thread: Blackwood and Spalted Maple

Nice work WH, sorry cant help with the Lucinda.

Awesome job mate

Ian

Nice set there always good to get repeat business as well With the lucinda and similar kits ( EB etc) the length of the body is critical to where the refill extends and retracts, so it's very important not to overtrim them, to check if thats the problem simply take a new tube and test it against the finished product ,any difference should be easily seen that way cheers ~ John

Good looking pens. +1 for wot John said re: lucida tube trimming.

Like the case pictured too. Where did it come from ?

Looking good

If you have over trimmed, you can shorten your refill by filling down the plastic end tip at the top. You can file down to remove the little round knob, even the teeth part, as the kits don't use them. Only problem is then you have to tell the buyer to do the same with future refills

Originally Posted by dabbler

Good looking pens. +1 for wot John said re: lucida tube trimming.

Like the case pictured too. Where did it come from ?

Not sure Dabbler. Forgot to order one when I ordered the kits so went scrounging through my bits drawer and found it. I don't remember ever ordering one like it so I suspect it's one I received a swap pen in in the past and have saved it once I transfered the pen into my private collection, so it's more than likely from The USA somewhere.

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Looking good

If you have over trimmed, you can shorten your refill by filling down the plastic end tip at the top. You can file down to remove the little round knob, even the teeth part, as the kits don't use them. Only problem is then you have to tell the buyer to do the same with future refills

I don't have another tube to compare against to see if I over trimmed (nice excuse to buy some more I guess) and I'm normally pretty careful when trimming. Would be somewhat embarrassing to have to tell a customer to keep trimming the refills so may just have to keep this one for myself.

EDIT: Just remembered I have an EB sitting in my pocket so compared the two. The timber section on the Lucinda is about 2.5mm shorter than on the EB. Obviously I got a bit carried away while trimming. Bugger!!!!! Oh well SWMBO was eyeing it off last night anyway so it may just have to go to her (after the refill get a bit of a haircut)

Originally Posted by wood hacker

SWMBO was eyeing it off last night anyway so it may just have to go to her (after the refill get a bit of a haircut)

Haha,
The wife always gets my mishap pens aswell, funny thing is I don't fix them, i just tell her to except the faults like she does with me
I make sure she has a couple of real nice ones in her bag though for when she is out to show off in the hope of drumming up some interest

I really like the spalted Maple.

I have had one not fully retracting into the pen and found that the refill was a bit longer then the other pens in the same Seirra kits.

Hey WH I s'pose you could just save up the rejects and use them for pen swaps Oh yeah NOT this year though eh

I got some of those cases last year while in Canada from William Woodwrite , took a swag of pens across for pressies and got the cases there.

Any chance of making some 'spacers' from some pickguard to make the blank longer?



Very cool materials!! Congrats on the repeat customer, that speaks volumes!!!!!








Scott (pickguard times two equals pen workie) B