30 curly maple clickers

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Well, title about sums it up. Gave a 6-8 week lead time and sending them out at the 4 week mark exactly. All engraved curly maple on black ti long clickers.

The money is good but oh boy can making 30 identical pens melt your brain.
 

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WOW! Great group of pens and all are excellent! "Brain melt" - I understand that!

I enjoy making a pen, or several, but when it becomes "work," my stress factor goes up.

Excellent work!
 
Beautiful work, but yeah, I can't imagine "mass producing" all those. Brain melt for sure. I'm with Hank in that I don't want it to feel like work. I've done a couple by request, but I always advised that I can't promise when it will be finished.

@KMCloonan, that used to be me getting up to make the donuts. You'd think I would never want to see one again after making 200-300 dozen a day, but I still love donuts!
 
egnald said:
Quite a feat - I don't think I could have done it (well, unless the price was something I just couldn't refuse). The blanks are outstanding. - Dave
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Thanks. Most of that is Curly Maple from Exotic Blanks. I think of the 30 blanks I ordered from them (I already had a lot on hand) I used something like 24 of the 30. And the other 6 weren't even much worse, I just had some already that were curlier.

I've actually never "blindly" ordered any blanks being sold as being figured in some way and been as satisfied with what I got. And for like $1 each no less.
@ed4copies strikes again
 
sorcerertd said:
Beautiful work, but yeah, I can't imagine "mass producing" all those. Brain melt for sure. I'm with Hank in that I don't want it to feel like work. I've done a couple by request, but I always advised that I can't promise when it will be finished.

@KMCloonan, that used to be me getting up to make the donuts. You'd think I would never want to see one again after making 200-300 dozen a day, but I still love donuts!
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Unfortunately for me, in today's economy, it's something I don't mind feeling like "work", but to be honest it still doesn't when there is variety. I have several Christmas orders already and I will make those with nearly the same efficiency, but after finishing this order I consider my "work" done and now I can do my profitable hobby.

By the way, my Dad worked at Dunkin for a year or two when he was like 17. According to him it was over 10 years before he ate another donut. 😂
I love shooting, and I've been a competitive shooter since I was 14, so almost 16 years now, but my time in Army special operations from 2013-2016, they ALMOST made me hate it. 2000-3000 rounds per week in full kit will do that. I've found my sweet spot in the civilian world to be about 1500-2000 rounds per month. That's one of the ways I manage my sanity doing orders like this 😂
 
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