Black Acrylic Glitter Pen with Black Box

I finished the juniper pen and pencil set a week ago, and just now finished this black acrylic pen with box.

The pen body is a black acrylic resin with glitter in it. I went back and forth on whether I should paint the brass pen tube black before putting on the blank, but in the end, decided to leave it natural and showing through on the ends. The box is oak I stained black using an iron acetate solution, sanded back just enough so some of the natural grain would show through, and then grain-filled and finished with multiple coats of varnish oil. Elapsed time was almost ten days, but most days were just a few minutes of rubbing back the previous coat of oil with steel wool, then applying another coat and waiting overnight for it to cure.

I think it’s a nice addition and figure even if someone receives this as “second prize,” they’ll still be happy with it.