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SugarbeatCo's profile   80 posts in 647 days  #1 posted 402 days
ago  Pen making is a marketing genius.. Plain and simple.
There’s a little money to be made Im sure, but for the most
part, guys making tons of money off of tiny blanks, hardware
kits are moving off the shelves at light speed, thus taking up 5
pages of your woodcrapt catalog. Mini Lathes, mini chucks, pen
mandrels, CA glue finishes, Pen assembly presses, disassemble
presses, laser cut kits… Cha frickin Chang.. Fools be makin
money off fools that be tryin to make money doing something they
find fun. I’ve got more hours behind a lathe this year than
probably most anyone on here, never turned a pen one, and dont
see the fascination, but to each his own. Only thing I don’t
like about it is what it has done to the cost and availability
of bowl blanks and larger lumber finds that used to be more
abundant. Knife making is the same thing to