I've been working on a few pieces lately and one is turning out nice. However it has shown several flaws which are bigger than the typical pin-point black dot.


So my question is how bad do flaws have to get before you decide not to sell the piece. It still will be a perfectly good pipe, just not flawless. Would you try to work around these issues and still sell this pipe, or would you keep it?
In this case the smaller sand spots don't bother me too much but the larger crack on the bowl's side is some kind of ugly. This block had several of these types of fissures which came and went with shaping. There is a smaller version on the back of the bowl just below the larger spot. The pit on the shank is bad; large and cavernous looking. I mean that's really a hole, at this point.
Someone suggested rusticating the thing, but I don't think I want to do that.
As I state in the image; it's starting to look like this year's birthday pipe. I'll finish it up and see where it's at then, but I don't think some of those flaws are going away. At least I like the shape this time...
Any opinions or experiences to share?