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My final pair of Jr Gents for the weekend, this time in Santos Rosewood. They were completed yesterday afternoon in somewhat of a hurry. :down:


There I was carefully taking my time when Margaret asked (decreed) that I should hurry up and stop playing sheds (making pens), make us each a sandwich and get changed ready to go and meet some friends down the pub. :kiss:


So having completed the turning & sanding of the fountain pen, I quickly got to a stage where I could leave it for a while (wax applied but not buffed) and went to make the sandwiches. :sob:


I returned to buff up the pen about 15 minutes later and got a new bit of blue paper out to buff up, when it occurred to me that I should already have blue paper out and it would have the remnants of the friction polish on it, no paper, so no friction polish applied. :sob:


So, I buffed up the waxed pen, then cut it back again, applied the friction polish, re-applied the wax and buffed up again. :thumbs:


Why does Margaret ask me to do more than one thing at once, she knows it doesn't work I am a mere man. :nonono:


Any way in the end the pens turned out ok, well I am happy with them :thumbs:


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