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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 898059" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>My license comes up for renewal in April and after 20 years, I'm thinking about finishing up what's here in the shop and calling it quits. Get a 'real job' with somewhat regular hours (and, hopefully, some benefits). I spend so much time with the business I haven't time to shoot my own or hunt , for that matter. I've got a 6.5mm x .284 that I've had finished for close to a year. I still haven't had time to mount a scope and take it to the range. With the business as it is I have no personal time. Heaven forbid a family member have medical issues, let alone have any yourself. My 85 year old uncle passed away this past August. A 2 day drive there, an evening at the funeral home after driving all day the second day, funeral the next day and visit with cousins I hadn't seen in 27 years, drive back home the next two days. I ended up a week behind and had to e-mail a customer a copy of the news paper 'death notice' to prove my uncle had passed and wasn't just screwin' off. Dealing with the public,,,,,,,, well, I hope you get my drift! Between that, the long hours and mounting regulations all business are facing, some things become 'not worth it' at some point, no matter how much I enjoy gunsmithing work. I guess time will tell after I've had the surgery. I'm a fair CNC machinist , can write a simple G code program and make the set-up. I've got a life time of manual machine experience, my real strengths are in tooling and fixturing, knowing what tool and what you can and can't make it do and how fast. How to hold a part so many can be done in a repeatable fashion (jigs & fixtures) and what to do in what order. Like I said, time will tell what comes next. What other can I do besides bolt handles? I'm school trained, graduated MCC class of '93. I make stocks by hand from blanks or pre-inlets to some simple repairs and much in between. Learned long ago to turn away the 'junk',,,, still learning .......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 898059, member: 24284"] My license comes up for renewal in April and after 20 years, I'm thinking about finishing up what's here in the shop and calling it quits. Get a 'real job' with somewhat regular hours (and, hopefully, some benefits). I spend so much time with the business I haven't time to shoot my own or hunt , for that matter. I've got a 6.5mm x .284 that I've had finished for close to a year. I still haven't had time to mount a scope and take it to the range. With the business as it is I have no personal time. Heaven forbid a family member have medical issues, let alone have any yourself. My 85 year old uncle passed away this past August. A 2 day drive there, an evening at the funeral home after driving all day the second day, funeral the next day and visit with cousins I hadn't seen in 27 years, drive back home the next two days. I ended up a week behind and had to e-mail a customer a copy of the news paper 'death notice' to prove my uncle had passed and wasn't just screwin' off. Dealing with the public,,,,,,,, well, I hope you get my drift! Between that, the long hours and mounting regulations all business are facing, some things become 'not worth it' at some point, no matter how much I enjoy gunsmithing work. I guess time will tell after I've had the surgery. I'm a fair CNC machinist , can write a simple G code program and make the set-up. I've got a life time of manual machine experience, my real strengths are in tooling and fixturing, knowing what tool and what you can and can't make it do and how fast. How to hold a part so many can be done in a repeatable fashion (jigs & fixtures) and what to do in what order. Like I said, time will tell what comes next. What other can I do besides bolt handles? I'm school trained, graduated MCC class of '93. I make stocks by hand from blanks or pre-inlets to some simple repairs and much in between. Learned long ago to turn away the 'junk',,,, still learning ....... [/QUOTE]
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