painted tubes

Dear Makers - I'm glad to be back to pen making and back to this fine forum after (most of) a year doing portrait and wildlife painting (and other things). These stylus pens were kindly commissioned by a tech industry innovator for the Holidays: Back to my usual methods: Painted the slowly...

I'm having an issue!!! I took some blanks and wanted to see how different they each looked, having a painted tube in different colors. I painted one half in white and one half in black. I painted both the tubes and the hole drilled through the blank, as I was told the glue will show if you only...