FGarbrecht
Member
I see all kinds of descriptions of pen blank material in the 'for sale' forum and am curious if there are some agreed upon standards for grading, or are these descriptions just marketing? For example, what does A+++ mean really? It sounds good, but is it as good as AA+++? How about exhibition grade; I assume that exhibition grade blanks should blow your socks off, but are these descriptions just in the eye of the seller or do they mean anything objectively (is there a correlation with standard hardwood lumber grading)?