Segmented Twist Fountain Pen

Very cool pen. Maybe make you a walnut sleeve to fit the blown out area.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Interesting pen. Almost looks like pixels.

It would have to be a keeper unless you have a pen collector who would be willing to pay for all the time involved.

I applaude you. It’s like guys that do segmented bowl turning. I know when I have reached my limits and I wouldn’t even try it.

I’m still having problems getting the Celtic know down.

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

Nice pen! I like the sleeve idea.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

that is beautiful!

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I think to give it some balance, I’m going to make a sleeve for the top and bottom of the cap and leave a center band of the segments. we’ll see how it goes.

thanks for the compliments. I do think anyone could do it with a little bit of patience.

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Cool pen, Darryl!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Nice pen. I can hardly believe it.

-- Jiri

That must have been a tremendous disappointment to suffer the blow-out. Good luck on the salvage, it’s a fine pen.

-- Maplewood, MN

I can’t say this enough—Great work Darryl.
... Ebony. Definitely ebony. That’d be the perfect compliment to the hardware.

Gary

sharp pen Darryl. very cool. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Before I saw your text I was thinking, “wow, a very high risk project”. I have trouble just turning laminated blocks. Great effort and patience required for this. Nice work.

-- Bob A in NJ

Now thats what I call a challenge Darryl. The next one you make would make a great blog.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Darryl, I still don’t think I want to attempt this but I just got the Winter issue of Woodturning Design and there was an article on how to make segmented pens. I had to check to see if you wrote it.

After learning the trick to making a segmented pen I can see why you say anyone with patience can make one.

I think it would still take more patience than I want to put into it.
If it takes me more than 5 minutes to make a pen I’m bored.

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.