Woody, enjoyed wandering through history there used to be a bloke in Kentucky where I bought 150 blanks of this sort of mix some of it very rare and precious and so I asked him to label the parcel as wood pen blanks and number them sending by E Mail a key or list of the names, this he duly did and I formed quite a friendship with him. This was on another forum where he was ridiculed by ideots who in their wildest dreams would never even hear of most of his timbers the first and worst ones were those with vested interests in selling their blanks. It reminds me of fishing there are those who poison the water to stun fish no good intentions. My pen turning started when the only kits were Slimlines in the 80,s and I still feel there is so much more to making them than the one piece hardly held together ones.
Thanks for showing your pens Woody I really appreciate how well you turn them and these days your pics as well. The first thing that comes to mind when I hear something is difficult or not done is lets see now. Made my recent ones in the last few days dozens more to come.
Kind regards Peter.