Repair of green and gold shade pen.

Repair of green and gold shade pen.

This pen ,made from an acrylester blank was one of my much loved shades. But the pen suffered breakage at two places and it's 0.6 mm pitch threads were not suitable for this soft material. Breakages too took place presumably for the softness of the blank. The pen was lying un- attended for over a year. 

Repair work involved adding brass couplers with 0.75 mm threads and adding two insert rings , one at the section bottom and one at the cap bottom made of same material of nearby shade. Also added two brass strength rings at the cap bottom. The cracked parts have not been machined away, rather retained the crack marks as faint memories. The work took better part of two days.

I have made nearly 24 pens with this material in different colours. This is Woodshed blanks from beartoothwoods.com, these blanks are generally excellent material machining wise ... however one or two were found on the softer side particularly below a certain thickness.

Overall feeling happy with the repair outcome and feeling too happy to have my favourite shade pen fixed.

Hope you like the looks of the pen.