'Unique' has become a smoke screen for the imperfect?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WlbbSxZthc8

Another great review from my favourite reviewer.

However I am somewhat confused. This maker, who makes Ben's no 1 bar spinner were kind enough to send him out number 001 of their new and much more well priced spinner. I have to say I rather like design and agree it is quite "unique" but I suspect the term unique also serves to try and paper over some very obvious cracks.

Firstly, Ben is honest enough to point out the machining flaws. This is expected and appreciated. Should he have gone further and said that on a metal like brass at this price the finish should be 100%? I suppose if he had twisted the knife he wouldn't be popular over in Vietnam and there is enough manoeuvre room there for anyone with a ounce of brain to read between the lines.

Aonic worries over tiny miniscule and insignificant burr lines on a tungsten spinner and yet it's ok for this maker to present sloppy brass machining and expect us to gladly pay for It because it's a mark of character? It is probably a good job I don't get sent free spinners. I would be having a field day with this.

Then we come to the bearing retention system. Again it seems a 'nice' fit...but I can see this sort of thing getting a massive panning on something coming from Fastech or Ebay. Why is a 'loose' bearing now acceptable? Perhaps I don't want to glue it in myself and would rather the maker sorted this detail out. What am I paying them for.....a spinner in unfinished kit form?

Finally we come to the 'hard edges'. I refuse to buy into the maker's claim that they have been left there to be a part of the spinning experience. This is utter rubbish. They came up with an angular frame, liked it and went with it. The fact it has hard edges is a product of the cutting not the cunning. To suggest in any way that the spinner is unique because it seeks to deliberately be a bit uncomfortable in a tactile kind of unique way is laughable.

Here we are nearly a year in to the beginning of the journey, with every reviewer, owner and maker looking to create comfort and fluidity and at this point it's now unique rather than just wrong to have hard edges. All seems a little daft. Wow, those guys making spinners out of knife blades really were ahead of their time then.

The spinner looks cool. But it is deeply flawed in its conception and execution. 'Unique' has become a smoke screen for the imperfect.

While some makers drive us forward, some seem keen to 'reposition' our expectations and thus take several steps backwards.

Idle.