Look at matey from another forum who was highlighted here a short while ago at £400 & 500 a pen, who sent one to the Royal couple as a wedding gift.
Whether they ever saw it is another thing but it is all good advertising for him, nice sales pitch, impressive website.
Or is it? Does he sell 1 or 2 per week, month or year? Does he sell any?
Am I in awe, do I feel threatened, jealous or do I just think it's all billshut?
Does he subsidise his hobby with a full time job or is he a retired gentry, do I care?
I can stand at my lathe all day and not turn a pen, I am down to the last 20 sets of 500 sets of 8 saucepan handles.
Not glamorous but earning money init?
Are his pens any better than anyone else's? He uses the same kits.
There is only so far you can go to improve it, putting a solid gold nib on a shit kit is still a shit kit init?
Years ago I used to race cars, I put a v8 engine in an Anglia all I had was a fast Anglia.
I built a workshop, kitchen and bedrooms in a coach to save B&B money we could eat sleep and repair from one unit.
Good idea? No I was the tramp in the coach and not allowed on some circuits.
A friend had a caravan with a rotten chassis but lovely interior, I bought it from him and put all the furniture in an ambulance I got from auction, scrapped the caravan ally body and got my money back from the purchase.
Was it now a campervan? No I was now the tramp in the Ambulance.
Personally I don't give hoot how much you or anyone sells their pens for as long as you are happy with what you are doing.
This is a hobby for me and not a money making scheme, I won't get rich from pens or any other wood turning I do.
But I only do what I want and not what others say I should do, we all have different circumstances and live in different areas of affluence init?