It rankles just a bit when I read a statement that any pen made in a very short time period is of poor quality. I think that unless you have spent a few years making a couple thousand or so pens per year, it is hard to imagine how any pen that takes less than an hour to make could be well made.
I consider myself to be a production pen maker and I believe that the amount of time that it takes is as long as it takes to get it right, for me that averages out to about 45 minutes per pen. I have reason to believe that others are considerably faster than me and I accept that they are more skilled than I, and they have found production efficiencies that I have yet to find. I don't write off anyone's claim that they can make finished pens faster than I as an exaggeration, I wish I was faster.
Making a dozen pen per day for about 175 days per year is still a long way from high volume production, but it can get boring and tedious. Anyone who describes their time spent in hours or days per pen is probably enjoying it a great deal more than I, but I do not agree that production turners make inferior quality pens.
I consider myself to be a production pen maker and I believe that the amount of time that it takes is as long as it takes to get it right, for me that averages out to about 45 minutes per pen. I have reason to believe that others are considerably faster than me and I accept that they are more skilled than I, and they have found production efficiencies that I have yet to find. I don't write off anyone's claim that they can make finished pens faster than I as an exaggeration, I wish I was faster.
Making a dozen pen per day for about 175 days per year is still a long way from high volume production, but it can get boring and tedious. Anyone who describes their time spent in hours or days per pen is probably enjoying it a great deal more than I, but I do not agree that production turners make inferior quality pens.
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