Crafted gear that is worth the effort should be:

Maximum available item level (90 for now);
Made from bind-on-pickup materials obtainable from Coil;
Bound to character upon creation/untradeable;
Customizeable, with both materia and dyes;
Unconditionally better than Allagan if HQ and slotted with proper materia;

...Or you can just forget about crafting and just sell tomes to naive people who think it's somehow "useful" and spend your money on consumables/repairs only.