All my life I have heard the standing joke about Sheep there will never be another Yew on this site it is used ad infinitum Yew timber I mean and I say why not your pen is beautiful. To make an observation I turn with two calipers by my side one measured for the centre band and one I change for the tip and the band of the clip, this I do for every pen checking every kit I use cause I have hundreds of stripped kits in compartments so I can change centre bands, clip shape colours of components. After I made my first pen an old hand ran my pen between his fingers saying you never rounded the timber ends slightly and there are variations to be felt.
The grain is delerious love the golden colour another favourite habit of mine when I take pics I extend the biro as if and when I match the grain all the way it is in that position, whenever I show a pen I do it automatically every time.
Please always make your pens your way, think from time to time about using Streamline centre bands to give you fatter different Slims cheap as from Timberbits.
Kind regards Peter.
