I sometimes wonder if pen turners aren't missing a possible market.
Everyone seems to be making pens of plastic or wood and trying to finish them to look like glass. The shinier the better. Now there is a market for pens like that so that's fine and I'm not suggesting that everybody or anybody stop doing that.
That being said. My house is full of what is called "cottage furniture" it is new furniture that folks take great pains to make it look old. And there is a big market for it. By the way it isn't all that easy to use new lumber and make it look like grand dad made a wash stand that sat in the barn for 50 years. I wonder if there might not be a market for "stressed" pens, showing the finish worn down, and perhaps small indentations where fingers have gripped them for years...or pens made from stressed wood that show some small imperfections? Pens finished with stains and lacquers available years ago....
Any of you folks ever give that any thought.
Everyone seems to be making pens of plastic or wood and trying to finish them to look like glass. The shinier the better. Now there is a market for pens like that so that's fine and I'm not suggesting that everybody or anybody stop doing that.
That being said. My house is full of what is called "cottage furniture" it is new furniture that folks take great pains to make it look old. And there is a big market for it. By the way it isn't all that easy to use new lumber and make it look like grand dad made a wash stand that sat in the barn for 50 years. I wonder if there might not be a market for "stressed" pens, showing the finish worn down, and perhaps small indentations where fingers have gripped them for years...or pens made from stressed wood that show some small imperfections? Pens finished with stains and lacquers available years ago....
Any of you folks ever give that any thought.