Just sorted out my pen display cabinet.
I display ALL of my pens in here even the one's that I have messed up on.
It looks as though each shelf, of which there are four of, can display 25 pens with ease.
I don't think I will win any awards for productivity as those on display have taken a year for me to make, add on an extra 17 for Christmas gifts and birthdays, plus the 5 pens I have so far sold makes a total of 47 or just under 1 a week. If we add on blanks that have blown it then takes that number up to 2 pens per week.
Due to all of my medical (and head) problems my genuine target was 1 pen per month, I have smashed my target so I just wanted to share the moment with you good folk, my mentors.
Out of the 25 on display 5 of them are useless, I have messed them up on assembly or finishing and have 1 that I had to glue in.
Not including the blown blanks I have a 20% failure rate on my finished pens, my plan for this year (June to June) is to get that under 10% and make at least 50 more pens to display. Once the cabinet is full (Appx 100 pens) my aim will be to get rid of the dross bit by bit and fill it with pens that would look good in any of your cabinets, now once that has been achieved my pens will be good enough to be sold. So it looks as though I have another year or so to go before this hobby can support itself.
Looking at those numbers may not seem awe-inspiring to any of you with most (if not all) of you being able to achieve them in a week, however I am over the moon with them. It has been a big struggle for me to get there but I managed it. I am going to carry on doing my best and that includes writing essays on here a few times a week, hopefully this time next year I will be letting you all know I have smashed the years target for the second year running.
I display ALL of my pens in here even the one's that I have messed up on.
It looks as though each shelf, of which there are four of, can display 25 pens with ease.
I don't think I will win any awards for productivity as those on display have taken a year for me to make, add on an extra 17 for Christmas gifts and birthdays, plus the 5 pens I have so far sold makes a total of 47 or just under 1 a week. If we add on blanks that have blown it then takes that number up to 2 pens per week.
Due to all of my medical (and head) problems my genuine target was 1 pen per month, I have smashed my target so I just wanted to share the moment with you good folk, my mentors.
Out of the 25 on display 5 of them are useless, I have messed them up on assembly or finishing and have 1 that I had to glue in.
Not including the blown blanks I have a 20% failure rate on my finished pens, my plan for this year (June to June) is to get that under 10% and make at least 50 more pens to display. Once the cabinet is full (Appx 100 pens) my aim will be to get rid of the dross bit by bit and fill it with pens that would look good in any of your cabinets, now once that has been achieved my pens will be good enough to be sold. So it looks as though I have another year or so to go before this hobby can support itself.
Looking at those numbers may not seem awe-inspiring to any of you with most (if not all) of you being able to achieve them in a week, however I am over the moon with them. It has been a big struggle for me to get there but I managed it. I am going to carry on doing my best and that includes writing essays on here a few times a week, hopefully this time next year I will be letting you all know I have smashed the years target for the second year running.
) I know some turn only wood or acrylic, some turn metal..... Its all about the journey and if your happy
