BTW, it sounds like you should be selling them not giving them away.
That is an ongoing discussion.
I got my lathe in late Jan/early Feb, so I am very much a beginner. I had never used one before that. I see a lot of issues with the pens that I make and have held off selling them for that reason. My wife looks at them and makes fun of me for caing about the piddly little things that are wrong with them.
Another aspect is my salesmanship, or lack there of.
My first job out of college was as a salesman for a sensor company. The deal was a salary + commission for the first 3 months, changing to only commission after that. I lasted three weeks before my boss called me into his office to tell me I was a terrible salesman and he was moving me over to customer service.
I spent about 2 months at that until they decided I was too much of a pain in the butt. I evidently spent too much time bugging the engineers for information on various things (so I could help customers more effectively), so I was once again transferred. This time I ended up as an engineering tech doing process design.
I spent about 9 months at that before deciding the big boss was a prick and leaving to get an engineering degree so I could do the same work for twice the money. Not having to work for him anymore was a definate bonus as well.
I have never willingly done sales since.
I have considered opening a Etsy shop, or trying to pimp my pens through the wife's facebook page. My tentative goal is to have a dozen pens that I consider saleable and open some kind of shop with those. I have a 12 pen wallet from Woodnwhimsies, so it is an easy to track goal.
I am considering trying to go back and fix some pens that came out reasonably well, but have bad finishes or are slightly off axis, but I get a lot more pleasure from making new things than fixing old ones. If I am giving them away, I don't have to be as concerned about them being right, but I feel like there should be a higher standard for something I am selling.