One of those days

[EBorraga]

Well after working all day and playing a round of frisbee golf, I decided to make myself a pen. The blank was ready to turn. It was a BOW cigar. Turned both ends between centers and finished it with 10 coats of CA. Went to put it together, and I'll be damned, I turned it backwards The longer part was now the finial end. The shorter end was now the tip. My brain just wasn't functioning. The heat must of fried my brain cells.

 

[tbroye]

Been there, done that to many times.

 

[jimm1]

Ernie, a little chuckle from down Highway 65, now that I know that I am not the only one who has ever done this.

 

[wolftat]

Been there, takes a bit of work and you can turn it into a custom piece.

 

[toddlajoie]

I've

NEVER

done

that

....

 

[bitshird]

Jeeze what's it feel like making a mistake like that???:glasses-cool::glasses-cool::glasses-cool:

 

[el_d]

Don't worry Ernie after reading this Ill probably do it too.

 

[mredburn]

:biggrin:I too have turned the tubes for the wrong ends. However I just made new parts to make the pen work.:biggrin:

 

[thewishman]

Sorry, I lost interest after you played the disc golf.:tongue: How was your round?






The classic cigar pen mistake - you haven't made many cigar pens if you haven't made this mistake yet.

 

[EBorraga]

Well I shot 8 over. Tripled the last hole as I blew my drive into the trees. Just barely beat the rain. I've made a lot of Cigar's and usually mark the finial end so I wouldn't do this. But didn't this time and now have a gorgeous BOW cigar that's for looks only. Can't tell it's backwards until you put the refill in.

 

[jskeen]

dude, I can beat that, I did TWO of those in a row once. the blanks are still somewhere in the bottom drawer of my rollaway somewhere, buried under all the other oops's

 

[thewishman]

Well I shot 8 over. Tripled the last hole as I blew my drive into the trees. Just barely beat the rain.

Bogeys on the last hole, that messes up a good round every time. A birdie on the last hole can turn a lousy round into a good one.


I was in charge of pen turning for our local AAW chapter and we had a PR blank making demo. I forgot about bringing our sample blanks back to show at the next meeting. I got home from work and rushed through a quick cigar pen in a hurry to get to the meeting in time. It looked great until I tried to retract the nib - it poked out farther instead of retracting. That show and tell was embarrassing!:redface:

 

[EBorraga]

That's exactly what happenned to me. The nib was perfectly out. Then I turned it to retract, and Blam it went out further. Was pretty mad at that point.

 

[RAdams]

A birdie on the last hole makes for ANOTHER ROUND!!!


bummer on the cigar but at least you got to hit the chains today! just keep it as a desk pen, That's what i did with mine just like yours!!! In fact, did you say it was a BOW pen? that is what mine was. I was peeeeesed

 

[Dustygoose]

I did the same thing. So I grabbed my tubing cutter and snipped off about 1/8" and put the black plastik piece back on and use the pen myself...