If you'd told me youd just completed a jigsaw puzzle of tigerwood and turned it I would have thought of a revolting finish. But this has its appeal, hasnt fully grown on me yet but it fits the design era of the pen in a curious way. Having said that I think the pen is only marginally less vile than when I first saw it on the PSI website, but full marks for the inventiveness of the segmented blank, and within the constraints of my dislike of the recent PSI kits I like the outcome and its beautifully completed.