Tequila Sunrise pen

Recently at a group dinner I brought some of the recent pens I made. I gave one to one of the ladies who had a birthday in January. Another one of these lady friends had a birthday in March and said "How come I don't get a pen?" teasingly. I said I didn't know about her birthday and that I would make her one.

This lady likes to wear bright colors. She even buys reading glasses with unique, colorful frames. At the woodworking store I found a pen blank that was made as a glue up of many thin strips of colorful dyed wood. The manufacturer calls this particular blank "Tequila Sunrise."

I had trouble with a "blow out" while doing a trimming task, and it ruined one end of one of the barrels. I tried to fix it with the blown out wood chips and Super Glue. But it blew out again, even worse. So I bought another pen blank and had more success.

Here is the Tequila Sunrise pen. I took two pictures...one where I rotated the pen 90 degrees. These I cropped and merged into one picture.