Re: Gunsmith Pricing
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: C. Dixon</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If we were all cardiac surgeons is it reasonnable to expect as 1st year graduates from med school, we'll earn what a 10+year veteran surgeon does? C. </div></div>
I got my finger stuck in the grinder.
In the emergency room I mentioned the name of a cardiac surgeon.
The doctor stopped sewing me up for a second and asked, "How can I make more money, like him?"
I could tell from what he said that sewing up hearts pays better than sewing up fingers.
I have never charged anything for my amateur gunsmithing. All those tools looked like a money pit to the wife.
But I have charged my consulting engineering rate for my time boring large holes with a fly cutter in 19 inch test equipment rack blank face panels.
That quickly paid for the mill, lathe, TIG welder, shop slab, shop walls, shop wiring, etc.
Owning gunsmithing tools is like having a microwave in the kitchen, you could live without it, but it makes life easier.
What does it all mean?
Some of the benefits of being a gunsmith are intangible.