With quality checks (every step, every check, every time) and pre-maching activities (vudoo) i take about 6 hours to fit a barrel, that includes blended thread cap. Normally do it in 3 x 2 hour stints to avoid fatigue and errors and only work when i want to. Time served apprenticeship in highly regulated industry, working in converted, insured, secured and alarmed/monitored double garage with correct PI, PL snd EL insurance that covers me to build rifles, weapons of mass destruction and Nuclear power plants amongst other more normal engineering activities. I could knock them out quicker if i lowered the quality checks and did them in one session but im in it for the quality and results, not the profit. My gunsmithing rate is less that my rate for my day job. My prices are comparable to the industry norms and i’d like to think the level of customer service is as high as anybody else, if not higher. Currently moving premises but looking forward to getting the new workshop up and running in a couple of months or so.
