I somehow doubt I am anyone to criticize your work Bill, your pens look beautifully finished to me.
What I am going to try with wood pens is to sand as usual, then remove the blanks from the lathe and spray them with three or four coats of automotive clear lacquer. Return them to the lathe and wet sand, then finish with compound and car polish. I'm hoping this will give me a finish similar to the CA glue technique that I've seen (and failed at miserably) on youtube. When I tried it I glued everything in the shed to its nearest item and most of my fingers to one another. The blank itself looked as though it had been dragged through a field of dust and cobwebs.

Needless to say it wasn't worth any more effort and was filed under R.