Keep being critical! Penturning is all about micro details, it's what matters!
I am rarely satisfied with my pens but the other people around me and my customers are often amazed at what can be done with wood!
If you play music for example, your perception about it is really different as compared to a simple listener.
I am driven by the woods, I wanna make pens that shows the rarest and most exceptional woods in their better days and keep all of them for myself! :cat: MY PRECIOUS!
If you have the passion for woods like me, get the nicest blanks! You will improve to the level you desire because you will be driven in making that exceptional blank, better.
You made a really fine pen! Now go turn!!!
Charles