mistake

My first mishap mistake whatever you want to call it ... this is only my 3rd pen that I am embarking upon and I turned the blank too narrow and the blank broke and now the brass inserts are visable .... I’m not looking for a solution to this ... I just can’t believe how quick I went from having...

So. I started trying to make an overly complicated (for me) pen, and struggled as a result. I wanted to do a Sierra with two woods in it, cut at a 45 degree angle, so that there is a chevron in wood B inserted into a blank of wood A. After I was mostly done with the pen, I read in the library...

I thought that I'd post some of my latest flawed results. So, I made the decision to try a couple of different styles of pen kits and have paid the price for being impatient and for poor instructions. I thought I'd post a few pics of some that are not quite up to scratch as everyone...