Types of Olive wood handles
Of the 1000 handles we had made from reclaimed, end-of-life Italian olive trees, we've accepted about 600 of them, and the other 400 will be reworked.
And of those 600 sets (one of each size handle) my head-of-factory manager Nicole separated them into four categories that she made up:
- DENSE : dark to light color variations, these are our favorite
- DOTS : which are really small knots, also quite pretty
- BIRTHMARK : a dark splotch of color, but often the rest of the handle is like the DENSE ones
- NORMAL : even color all around
We have 1200 total handles, much too many to individually photograph, and it's too complicated to have video chats with people to let them pick them.
What to do?
One possibility is selling these as 4 separate groups. The DENSE and DOTS are the most beautiful, but also the most rare. The NORMAL ones are the most plentiful.
My inclination is to sell the 4 different handles as 4 separate choices, but you don't get to pick exactly the specific one, just the “type”. However, I don't want people disappointed and deciding to send the wood back, as that's time consuming and appalling un-ecological.
How would you recommend we “handle” <har har> this?
-john
Update: the olive wood handles are available here: https://decentespresso.com/c?filter=olive
Updated 2022/05/29