Yeah, colored pencils bundled together, saturated in resin and turned on a lathe is unexceptional these days. It looks cool, was a real challenge for the first guys to do it, but in the end a very wasteful way to produce objects that aren’t particularly durable.
Artisans still do it for fun and to hone their skills, but colored pencil turning is so commonplace at this point that you have to do something pretty “arty” (like this floating cup) to get any attention.
