Every object made by hand contains movements that can never be reproduced exactly.

Anything made by hand records the exact conditions of its making, the pressure, the pace, the small hesitation, the state of the person that day. Those movements will never occur again in that combination, which is why handmade things carry a particular quality that consistency cannot imitate.

If you make anything, the irregularities are not failures to be sanded away, they are the record of a person having been there. Consider keeping something you made badly at a particular time. And when choosing between the flawless and the handmade, know what each one is actually offering.