Jim in Oakville
Member
Hi,
I picked up my first copy of Pen World this past week and really enjoyed viewing through the pages, some very inspiring work.
One page stumped me though and it caused me to wonder if I am being too critical of my own work. I think of myself as a capable pen maker, not great but okay. I am mostly driven by the design of kit hardware and what sells for me, these are things that make me feel fine about what I want to do in pen making.
I had to wonder though, after looking through the whole magazine a few times that one ad on one of the pages kept me confused. This page was an ad featured hardware used by a pen maker using available CSUSA hardware, the pen body it self though was not what I would call a clean design. The pinched body reminds me of some thing I would have done if I made an error in turning the body. This ad offers the pens he sells for around $1k.
I do not know if I am missing something but to me this design does not offer the value I would consider in a pen at such a price nor the design quality...Am I missing something?
There are three pens in this ad and I can see turned details on all of them that I would not present in an ad in such a magazine, maybe it's an optical illusion but I see flat spots also in a design that feartures pen bodies with curves going flat...a continous curve does not have flat spots? Hey, maybe we are all aspiring to acheive someting that only we care about? Pens priced at these values must have customers I presume, but what do I know, I am only considering the design of the pen body to the hardware chosen.
Please, I am inviting comments and not attacks, I do not know this person nor am I in anyway attacking their integrity or skills, just offering up the advertised design that is publically presented and seeking comments.
Perhaps I am being too hard on myself or my prices are too low if this is the case...
Has there been anyone else who has seen this and wondered the same?
I picked up my first copy of Pen World this past week and really enjoyed viewing through the pages, some very inspiring work.
One page stumped me though and it caused me to wonder if I am being too critical of my own work. I think of myself as a capable pen maker, not great but okay. I am mostly driven by the design of kit hardware and what sells for me, these are things that make me feel fine about what I want to do in pen making.
I had to wonder though, after looking through the whole magazine a few times that one ad on one of the pages kept me confused. This page was an ad featured hardware used by a pen maker using available CSUSA hardware, the pen body it self though was not what I would call a clean design. The pinched body reminds me of some thing I would have done if I made an error in turning the body. This ad offers the pens he sells for around $1k.
I do not know if I am missing something but to me this design does not offer the value I would consider in a pen at such a price nor the design quality...Am I missing something?
There are three pens in this ad and I can see turned details on all of them that I would not present in an ad in such a magazine, maybe it's an optical illusion but I see flat spots also in a design that feartures pen bodies with curves going flat...a continous curve does not have flat spots? Hey, maybe we are all aspiring to acheive someting that only we care about? Pens priced at these values must have customers I presume, but what do I know, I am only considering the design of the pen body to the hardware chosen.
Please, I am inviting comments and not attacks, I do not know this person nor am I in anyway attacking their integrity or skills, just offering up the advertised design that is publically presented and seeking comments.
Perhaps I am being too hard on myself or my prices are too low if this is the case...
Has there been anyone else who has seen this and wondered the same?