Walter thanks for the opportunity to comment, I'll stick mine up later in the day and hope people will rip into it! - nice pen well finished doesn't assist any, particularly when it quite evidently isn't!
It's a classic pen, nice choice of formal colours. Beautifully displayed (cleaned and polished before photography which mine wasn't!). It's beautifully finished, did you use upto 320 then through the mm to a burnishg cream?
One thing I dislike about closed end pens which are made as a test of our ability, to stimulate a bit of interest for us, is that the designer considered balance and framed the pen with metalwork which we of course destroy. This leaves us with a challenge to balance the pen which we can either do with colour or shape. The removal of either a postable thread section or a substantial end section destroys the dimensional balance and generally makes the body of all closed end pens look far too long and clumsy. So many end up looking like a tampon with no visual definition. If I have any critique I would have made the end slightly more angular, but not all will agree as this is not an issue of right or wrong.
Anyway after that waffle, yours is a classic, imho, a good choice of blank, very distinguished, if I was to turn an omega closed end I might be tempted as a result of seeing all these, to try and mimic some of the beading detail at the end of the pen?? I hesitate at this point to say that I am not criticising yours for not doing so, far from it, just an option for the future. It might distract from the visually elongated body which is an inherent problem turning these pens.
