Tiger
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Haven't made an acrylic for some time and prefer timber as less problematic for me anyway but thought I'd ask the wise heads here. I made 2 acrylic pens and painted the inside of the tubes on both barrels, I used JR Gent pen kits. I used the recommended drill bit which was a precise fit for the brass tube. I then with some sandpaper and dowel expanded the barrel to allow for some paint, the brass tube was now a very loose fit and easily slid through the blank. So after painting the insides of the blanks the lid part of both pens shows very slightly the brass tube which means that some scraping of the paint must have occurred whereas the bottom parts of both pens has no scraping. I didn't notice any paint scraping when inserting the brass tubes and used 5 min epoxy to glue the tube into the blanks. Question is what sort of gauge, if any, can be used to determine more accurately that there is enough allowance for painting inside the blanks? By the way I used acrylic paint on one blank and nail polish on the other, this seemed to make no difference although the nail polish dried much quicker.