I've watched the various postings over the few years I've been a member here and I have enjoyed every one of the postings. It seems to create more ideas about the "Kits" as to what they should be called, which is a good thing, I feel.
Some day we will probably agree, mostly, on what to call them. Personally I don't care much for calling them "Kits". For me, it has a tendency to lower the assumed quality of the finished product, in one's thinking, if not actually. I would put my 2 cents in for just calling them "component sets". Or anything relatively similar.
For those of us who might say that it doesn't really matter what we call them are correct, in part. To us, I would agree. But, for those of us who have or are selling to the public, it matters greatly. The public is becoming more "educated" to custom pens for sale. We have educated them far to much. There should be certain areas that should be kept within the "industry", if I may use that description. Just look at some eBay descriptions on cheap "custom made" pens being sold there, as well as some online sites.
I bring this up because of 2 different people over the past month that bought 3 of my rollerball pens. Both ask me if I just purchased the "kits" from online? They continued that I "put together a good looking pen". Importantly, I guess is that they bought anyway. But, I didn't care much for the place I was put in...being just someone who put together kits. Anyway, I wasn't happy with the word, "kits".
Obviously, just my idea of what a pen maker, artistic pen worker, custom pen creator,..... or whatever suits each of us at the moment. Each one of us has their own ideas of what they are comfortable with calling these, as it should be.
Just my own musings about an interesting subject,
Russ