Can you make different sizes? (diameters)
Can you make different colours?
I have a friend making wooden pens from kits.
I have thought about trying aluminum, brass, copper or even stainless.
This material would look really neat if you used fairly deep ribbed cuts that exposed the colour changes and formed a grip near the tip.
-brino
PS: I'll have to go look up "Hampton"
I'd make fluted tool handles