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Post by flyingzebra on Oct 23, 2020 20:37:55 GMT -5
Maybe if there's a request for twenty the unit cost would go down enough to make a difference.
As it sits, two will cost nearly twice as much as one
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Post by bushog on Oct 24, 2020 7:05:48 GMT -5
Make two, it’ll be cheaper. Trapr
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Post by squawberryman on Oct 24, 2020 7:24:20 GMT -5
Zebra can you define the price? I've no interest in having one but have an interest as to what they cost.
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Post by Ramar on Oct 24, 2020 7:35:27 GMT -5
Tough to top those Greg! Looks like the new one had been shot some which makes it even better! Seller said he wanted me to have it so I could have a "carry gun". He even sent along a Mernickle ray skin holster he carried it in. Gotta love it! Awesome to have such a perfected "carry gun!" Sounds like a front sight group buy coming on. If 2, $$$$$. If 10, $$$$. If 15, $$$... Would that work, flyingzebra?
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Post by Fowler on Oct 24, 2020 8:01:11 GMT -5
Yes in the machining world the expense in something like this is the reverse engineering and designing of the first one. After you cover the first one additional ones would cost very much at all if you ran them all together. But making the first one properly probably would set you back $1000-1200 and each additional one would be $20-30, so if you made 20 of them they would cost $90 each, assuming you find 20 guys will to buy them and don’t get stuck with and unsold extras.
The question is how bad do you want it?
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Post by bigbrowndog on Oct 24, 2020 10:10:09 GMT -5
I’d buy 2 or 3 at 90.00.
Trapr
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Post by tdbarton on Oct 24, 2020 16:26:22 GMT -5
The timed screws are such a nice touch. Even the ERH screw. Phenomenal.
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Post by bushog on Oct 25, 2020 8:59:42 GMT -5
The timed screws are such a nice touch. Even the ERH screw. Phenomenal. So... The only screw that is actually a screw on the side of the frame is the third one that holds the bolt bearing block in place. The other "screws" are the regular pins in your Super Blackhawk that have been slotted. I simply "timed" them for the photo. They rotate freely. The blended ERH screw is a really nice touch reserved for very few builds. Thought I should clarify.
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Post by flyingzebra on Oct 25, 2020 9:57:53 GMT -5
Zebra can you define the price? I've no interest in having one but have an interest as to what they cost. Time and material
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Post by flyingzebra on Oct 25, 2020 9:59:59 GMT -5
...But making the first one properly probably would set you back $1000-1200... And not likely that much
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Post by flyingzebra on Oct 25, 2020 10:12:53 GMT -5
Something I can say about pricing for these custom (and especially one-off) projects is that no one is in it for the money.
Really.
If anyone here's seen the 3-1/2" 480 that I've been working on lately, you'll see from my photos a fraction of the work that goes into going from concept to product. I'm in it for the love of the work and the love of the culture of the custom handgun.
Looking at the photos of this actual front sight base, most of the job could go fairly quickly, but notice that the ramp is a compound curvature. Either it came off a multi axis automated machine and then got hand finished, or it was made close to final contour on a manual machine and then the smoothly contoured ramp was hand filed, sanded, and finished.
That all takes time. This is steel we're working with. Those bits of time add up, and there's only so many of those bits of time before the sun goes down each day.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Oct 25, 2020 11:23:01 GMT -5
A good friend in Sweden does phenomenal work on all types of guns, but does not do any of it for money or anyone else. The cost for time and labor couldn’t be afforded, so he does it for the experience and love of the work. He used to run a commercial business for gunsmithing, now he does some of the best mounts and optics accessories in the world. The gunsmithing is is “hobby”
Trapr
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Post by squawberryman on Oct 25, 2020 12:05:53 GMT -5
BBD got any pictures sir? That story sure tugs at my curiosity
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Post by kings6 on Oct 25, 2020 13:51:38 GMT -5
I think there was a link shared in BBDs friends work sometime in the past. The man does phenomenal work.
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Post by potatojudge on Oct 25, 2020 18:22:11 GMT -5
A good friend in Sweden does phenomenal work on all types of guns, but does not do any of it for money or anyone else. The cost for time and labor couldn’t be afforded, so he does it for the experience and love of the work. He used to run a commercial business for gunsmithing, now he does some of the best mounts and optics accessories in the world. The gunsmithing is is “hobby” Trapr Spuhr’s Instagram page is gold.
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