When we redid our kitchen, we hired a cabinet maker to make, among other things, a $5K custom island out of cherry and black locust. As one of the final operations, he was using a router to clean up a curved surface. The router bit snapped and router skated across the surface of a bottom shelf, plowing an ugly gouge. He loaded up the island and took it behind the barn where he smashed it with his skid steer. When he told me what he had done, I replied that I would have put Formica laminate on the shelves and sold it to someone else for a couple of $K.
He is a perfectionist but then, that is why we hired him.