Another shot at the designed pens

In addition to cutting a pen blank out of bloodwood, for a Classic American pen that will complement the letter opener that I made a while back, I am making another attempt at a pen that my wife designed. This will be a Classic American pen too, but it will have purpleheart at the top and bottom and padauk in the middle. If all goes well (the last such attempt did not make it past the drilling stage), it will be a neat orange and purple pen. Well, orange and brown until we find out exactly how purpleheart actually turns purple again.

[Edited later at 8:33 p.m.]
Well, the padauk/purpleheart pen passed the next stage. The glue held, and I was able to drill through the components of the blanks without any splits or tearout. I also drilled and glued the tubes, so the next step is to see if I can trim the barrels and turn the pen.