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New Pen Kit

CraftyNick

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Well this is a new pen kit for me and I quite like it. I have dressed it in Rosewood but sadly the shine and glare in the photo hides the subtle natural beauty of the grain. I do like the chrome and dark Rosewood together.

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flexi

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Thats rather nice, sometimes a matt finish can look better and show grain more fully, but you cant fault the sheen on that ....very very nice:love_it::love_it:
 

CraftyNick

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Thats rather nice, sometimes a matt finish can look better and show grain more fully, but you cant fault the sheen on that ....very very nice:love_it::love_it:

Funny you should say that. I actually made a pen a few weeks ago from the same piece of rosewood and finished it in melamine lacquer with a matt finish. You can indeed see the grain more fully as you are not fighting the high gloss finish. I would say though that the gloss one above looks lovely in the sunlight. You can see right through it and it does give it depth.
 

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The Rosewood and chrome seem to of worked really well with this pen.

You have done a great job :thumbs::thumbs:

Have you used melamine gloss on it?
 
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