Pretty much all of my work is for sale but I take the attitude that a part that takes me too long to make counts toward my education. When things go well, I earn good money. When I don't know what I am doing and things slow to a crawl while I learn them ... well, the difference in pay is my tuition for the day.
AFter perhaps a hundred pens over the past two years, I'm just now starting to get good with CA. But I can get a pen off the lathe in under
30 minutes now if things go well. OTOH, sometimes I spend two hours making something that ultimately ends up in the "turn the wood off / keep the brass" box.So be it.
I've always relished the challenge to 'get good' with something. This is just one more go 'round of that.
Bill