Hello all! Newbie here! I've been turning for several years now and I'm far from an expert. I hope I'm posting this in the correct forum...
I wanted to gauge other pen turner's opinions on selling their work, namely those "imperfect pens" that I'm sure a lot of you are used to producing from time to time. From time to time, I have a pen blank that isn't perfectly squared on the ends, and after all of that tedious work of turning the blank down, sanding and polishing, and getting to the assembly step, I realize that as I'm putting a pen together, where you have wood butting up against a metal piece I find piece of paper's thickness or two of a gap. To most people, I'm sure they wouldn't necessarily notice that it's there, but I'm sure you all feel similarly that when it's your pen that you've spent all that time on, you notice those imperfections.
How do you guys feel about that, and how does it judge how you sell that pen? DO you sell it? Do you discount it? Do you sell it at your usual price and hope no one notices? Does it not bother you at all because philosophically nothing in life is perfect and everything is going to have some imperfections? Thoughts?
I wanted to gauge other pen turner's opinions on selling their work, namely those "imperfect pens" that I'm sure a lot of you are used to producing from time to time. From time to time, I have a pen blank that isn't perfectly squared on the ends, and after all of that tedious work of turning the blank down, sanding and polishing, and getting to the assembly step, I realize that as I'm putting a pen together, where you have wood butting up against a metal piece I find piece of paper's thickness or two of a gap. To most people, I'm sure they wouldn't necessarily notice that it's there, but I'm sure you all feel similarly that when it's your pen that you've spent all that time on, you notice those imperfections.
How do you guys feel about that, and how does it judge how you sell that pen? DO you sell it? Do you discount it? Do you sell it at your usual price and hope no one notices? Does it not bother you at all because philosophically nothing in life is perfect and everything is going to have some imperfections? Thoughts?