Hi Sean,
From a distance, it looks that, the bottom barrel is read and the top blue but, when looked closer, it explains why the illusion. While both barrels are from the same pod species and cast at the same time, each barrel has a different size seed holes, in the blanks that were cast with 2 short pods, they were positioned in the molds without being to worried about matching the 2 halves with pods that looked identical in the see holes size and I remember that, I had some small pods that had amazingly big see holes, I knew they would finish slightly different than the pods with small holes but I didn't think that, was a problem but rather an interesting fact that I would be looking forwards to see how people worked it out so, I'm glad you make this pen like that, the effect is great and give something else for a person to look closely at, just for being different...!
I still think that you need to make that CA coating a little glossier...!
Keep up the good work...!:wink::biggrin:
Cheers
George