I love custom work because it is a challenge. You usually get someone relatively finicky and often a perfectionist of sorts. I am not a perfectionist, I subscribe to a different model - which is repetition brings in itself perfection. It comes from something I once heard about a ceramics class in which a teacher separated the class into two groups. She halved the clay and said to one group "make a perfect pot from this clay. Just one." She said to the other group "make as many pots as you can from this clay". The group that made the most number came out with the best result. The point being, repetition helps you get things right.
So after all these years of honing our craft at one product, we tend to have a better chance of getting it right than the person tasked with creating a one off to perfection.
I am happy to say that the Rizk family was happy with the result, repeated 6 times, and now a new pattern has come out of it with their name on it.
