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<blockquote data-quote="MudRunner2005" data-source="post: 1380185" data-attributes="member: 12995"><p>2 weeks to a month... My smith has never taken longer than a month, that was only due to work schedule (machinist by trade, gunsmithing is his hobby) and hunting season. The week following the last day of hunting season, my phone was ringing to come pick it up, cause it was done. He usually takes not more than 2 weeks. But, being that my guy is local, and that he can turnout high-quality accurate work in record time, is a rarity. Part of what makes him so fast, is he has multiple lathes and mills setup at once for each part of the process, so he doesn't have to swap tooling all the time, and setup time is virtually eliminated. He just un-chucks it from one, takes 5 steps, chucks it up in another lathe or mill that's already semi-preset for the next process. Makes the work SUPER quick! But, not every smith can afford that much equipment...Or wants that much equipment. Some prefer to keep it simple.</p><p></p><p>However, I agree with Axl...Whatever they tell you as far as time-frame...Anything less than the day-of, is a bonus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MudRunner2005, post: 1380185, member: 12995"] 2 weeks to a month... My smith has never taken longer than a month, that was only due to work schedule (machinist by trade, gunsmithing is his hobby) and hunting season. The week following the last day of hunting season, my phone was ringing to come pick it up, cause it was done. He usually takes not more than 2 weeks. But, being that my guy is local, and that he can turnout high-quality accurate work in record time, is a rarity. Part of what makes him so fast, is he has multiple lathes and mills setup at once for each part of the process, so he doesn't have to swap tooling all the time, and setup time is virtually eliminated. He just un-chucks it from one, takes 5 steps, chucks it up in another lathe or mill that's already semi-preset for the next process. Makes the work SUPER quick! But, not every smith can afford that much equipment...Or wants that much equipment. Some prefer to keep it simple. However, I agree with Axl...Whatever they tell you as far as time-frame...Anything less than the day-of, is a bonus. [/QUOTE]
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