You might call this a companion to the last pen posted last week. I had seen a different segmented pen design on a forum a little while ago and Mack C posted a couple of pictures on how he created the design. I decided that, after the knot design, this would be the next one that I attempted. The straight pieces of inlay on either end of the blank were cut with my Bladerunner the same way that I cut the knot pen blank, but for the partial cuts (at the 45 degree angle) my Bladerunner wouldn’t work. So yesterday I went out to the garage, where I have my tablesaw and cleaned it up and made a little jig so that I could make repeatable cuts. This worked quite well, but the tablesaw blade has offset teeth that leave a bit of a vee cut at the depth of cut. It isn’t VERY noticable in the final product, but I would like to find a flat kerf blade. Not sure if they exist, but I think I will do some searching.
Like the last pen, this Longwood style click type pen is made with Tulipwood and has Purpleheart inlay pieces.
This is the blank ready to go for drilling and then cutting to final length.
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