On a more serious note, who determins what is perfect? I was just looking at a VERY high-end custom holster pictured on a VERY well known and highly regarded maker's site, familiar to many of you here, and I found a defect in the holster as pictured.
It seems like you just look at leather a little cross-eyed and it leaves a mark of some kind. Is that an imperfect product after that?
Years ago, when I turned wood for a living, I'd screw up and poke a hole through the bottom of a bowl or hurl one off the lathe or, sometimes, for no reason apparent- they'd explode. Some of these were exotic woods of considerable cost to me. I piled all these up in a box, and when we went camping on Labor day weekend, I cooked a Porterhouse steak over them and, in effect, ate my mistakes. I cannot tell you how many times I was asked by friends and family to sell them one of my defective bowls. The looks I got while camping, as I burned my work, ranged from grins to utter outrage.
So, in regards to this topic, I am torn between two camps. On the one hand I see everything that is wrong with my work and don't want to let it out of the shop. On the other hand, I know that nothing is ever perfect, and people project all levels and manners of "values" on objects, which is beyond our control. They also find something wrong if they look for it hard enough.
In the words of Jiminy Cricket, " Always let your conscience be your guide."