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I had a so called friend some years ago who made and sold wooden garden ornaments and he ask me to teach him to turn pens which I gladly did anyway I had a show coming up and offered him a spot on my table but in the end he got his own table and ask me if I minded him selling a few pens fine says I so we both turn up on the day and it turns out his stall was directly opposite minee and he swamped his stall with pens in all manner of boxes I set my stall up with my pens on my home made stands with an assortment of other turned items and my pens were a more expensive than his were with a box so at the start he is standing there with a big smile on his ugly mug I sold just short of £800 worth of turnings which included most of my pens he sold about £40 worth of pens in boxes and his smile disappeared its quality that will sell not a bloody box LOL by the way I told him to go away afterwards well words to that effect good init egg in yer face or wot

<blockquote data-quote="Woody" data-source="post: 183690" data-attributes="member: 192"><p>I had a so called friend some years ago who made and sold wooden garden ornaments and he ask me to teach him to turn pens which I gladly did anyway I had a show coming up and offered him a spot on my table but in the end he got his own table and ask me if I minded him selling a few pens fine says I so we both turn up on the day and it turns out his stall was directly opposite minee&nbsp; and he swamped his stall with pens in all manner of boxes I set my stall up with my pens on my home made stands with an assortment of other turned items and my pens were a more expensive than his were with a box so at the start he is standing there with a big smile on his ugly mug I sold just short of £800 worth of turnings which included most of my pens he sold about £40 worth of pens in boxes and his smile disappeared its quality that will sell not a bloody box LOL by the way I told him to go away afterwards well words to that effect good init egg in yer face or wot</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Woody, post: 183690, member: 192"] I had a so called friend some years ago who made and sold wooden garden ornaments and he ask me to teach him to turn pens which I gladly did anyway I had a show coming up and offered him a spot on my table but in the end he got his own table and ask me if I minded him selling a few pens fine says I so we both turn up on the day and it turns out his stall was directly opposite minee and he swamped his stall with pens in all manner of boxes I set my stall up with my pens on my home made stands with an assortment of other turned items and my pens were a more expensive than his were with a box so at the start he is standing there with a big smile on his ugly mug I sold just short of £800 worth of turnings which included most of my pens he sold about £40 worth of pens in boxes and his smile disappeared its quality that will sell not a bloody box LOL by the way I told him to go away afterwards well words to that effect good init egg in yer face or wot [/QUOTE]

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