tubes in transparent acrylics

[babyblues]

When you paint your tubes black does the CA glue mess up the black paint at all? Will it make it smear? And can you see the glue through the acrylic? I turned my first acrylic pen yesterday and I made the classic rookie mistake. I didn't think about painting the tube.

Someone could have at least told me how much these things stink when you drill them. [xx(]

 

[its_virgil]

Painting the tubes will allow the glue to show through on some acrylics. Paint the hole in the blank...this will hide the glue and the brass tube. Use a color close to the blank color or one of the main colors if he blank is multi-colored.
Do a good turn daily1
Don

Originally posted by babyblues
<br />When you paint your tubes black does the CA glue mess up the black paint at all? Will it make it smear? And can you see the glue through the acrylic? I turned my first acrylic pen yesterday and I made the classic rookie mistake. I didn't think about painting the tube.

Someone could have at least told me how much these things stink when you drill them. [xx(] []

 

[Ligget]

I paint tubes with nail varnish, however, if you spray the CA with kicker it will turn the nail varnish white. Especially more white at the ends of the blank.[]

 

[RONB]

Stink!!! Wait until you turn a horn pen................[xx(]

 

[GoodTurns]

plastics don't stink! Burn your eyes, yes, but stink? ...not even on the scale of stinky things you can make into a pen!

 

[GaryMGg]

Originally posted by babyblues
Someone could have at least told me how much these things stink when you drill them. [xx(] []

I like the smell -- reminds me of when we used to fix surfboards. [8D]
Gary

 

[ed4copies]

After you sell a few, you equate the smell with cash.

It smells a LOT better!!![][][][]

 

[Rojo22]

ROFLMAO....That was funny ED! My brother is an electrician that builds big motor control boxes for sewage treatment plants, and I asked him one day if the smell bothered him, and he said NOPE, it smells like money to me!!!

I actually have started to shoot paint both on the tube, and the inside of the drilled hole in the blank. I get better results that way, but that may not be what others recommend. You might try some of the nickel plated tubes that are being offered now. The silver shows through the blank, but is much nicer than the brass.