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KevinMc

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Nowt absolutely nowt went right today in the workshop I even made a mess of sharpening my gouge :sob:
so I turned a pen just to prove to myself it's not all my fault... comments and thoughts are welcome... I can take it the wine is getting opened?

Kevin
 

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fingwe

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The trouble I've found is that if you're looking to sell, people like to hold their pens all sorts of distances from the nib end. Some will be virtually touching the end, whilst others will hold it an inch or so up the barrel. By putting any kind of bulge at the end you may be restricting yourself from a certain percentage of the market.

Note that my experience is from dip pens, so your mileage my vary.:winking:
 
fortress

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The shape of the pen demonstrates to me excellent tool control, as for the bad day Kevin:thumbs:.....get over it, nice job.
 
Phil Dart

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I think that's been a great exercise in turning for you Kevin, and to restore your sense of achievement after a bad day. Well done.

As far as its practicalities as a pen are concerned though, as has already been said, I think you need to do away with the beads in future, particularly.... well, both of them actually, but especially the one by he nib, which for the majority of people I would say, renders it unusable I'm afraid.



wm460 said:
Marmite is orrible muck that the poms somehow eat.
Now Vegemite is they way to, yum yum.
I don't mind the shape at all.
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Mark - Vegemite is a disgusting, shallow, failed imitation of a hallowed institution, and should be banned. You have already foisted dead bits of kangeroo and ostrich on us, not to mention a barrage of thin, watery, fizzy canned drinks which you mistakenly describe as beer. However, Vegemite is a step too far I'm afraid, so keep it in Australia please - we do not want it here thank you. Your first statement is a pre-curser to your last statement, and I therefore question your capacity to judge a pen at all. I have the ability to add certain words to a list of those that are instantly deleted by the software, and if you insist on repeating the V word again, I will add it to the list without compunction.:winking:
 
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