I have now been turning pens for a couple of months and I have noticed that most of the pen kits are cheap in quality, is there any place to buy better quality pen kits?
Thanks in advance.
We all have different definitions of quality, but after having made thousands of pens from many different suppliers I can't agree that "most of the pen kits are cheap in quality." I've seen pens that were plated so heavy that the refill wouldn't fit through the nib, and others that were plated so poorely that the plating magically diasppeared while the pen sat unused in a case. There are some pens that are precision made but are of questionable design quality. There are kits that are hard to assemble without damaging, and there are kits that tend to fall apart over a sometimes short period of use.
Despite all of that, I still feel strongly that most of what is available to pen makers is of medium high to very high quality. The problem is that we come across a few bad kits from time to time, and unfortunately there is only a moderate correlation between cost and quality. Last week I had a significant quality issue with a $50 Statesman and I assembled a couple $1 slims that were perfect.
In my opinion the odds of comming across a individual kit of low quality are lower at Craft Supplies USA than with other suppliers.