Thanks all, but I can't take credit for the laminated blanks, I buy the wood from 2 people only on eBay. Their blanks seem to work great for me. I made a couple pens from those laminated blanks for my wife. She wanted matching pens for her couple Louis Vuitton purses so I have used 3 different versions of the laminated which match perfectly. So I love cufflinks so I made my special ones too. I will post when I take some pics of them together.