Mike Brooks
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I'm going to have to get me one of those. :haha:In well managed shops with a couple of employees,
I'm going to have to get me one of those. :haha:In well managed shops with a couple of employees,
That's probably considered pretty fast. Of course there aren't any bells or whistles on a gun like that! :haha:medic302 said:Mike Brooks said:You miss the point. It doesn't matter kits or from a plank. If a full time gunmaker doesn't have at least a year back log it says something about their work, or their lack of advertisement.
Cripes, I can build a gun from a blank in less than 20 hours, but when you have 25 to 35 guns on your list it takes quite some time to get to it.
holy manure! you can go from a blank to gun in less than 20 hours! am i easily impressed or is that fast!?
laffindog said:A left hand gun with a right hand lock...how bizzare, never seen nuthin' like that before. How did you come up wth that? I think I'm getting dizzy looking at it.
It doesn't take six months to build a gun but can take that long or longer for your name to come to the top of the list. Much longer if the customer wants "special" stuff like a barrel that has to be custom ordered or a patchbox that has to be hand made and can't be "store bought" etc. Also, for instance, the left/right handed gun above would take me two or three days of just thinking and planning before I ever even start on it. :idunno:
L. Dog
Mike Brooks said:I'm going to have to get me one of those. :haha:In well managed shops with a couple of employees,
That's why I don't have them.hanshi said:Mike Brooks said:I'm going to have to get me one of those. :haha:In well managed shops with a couple of employees,
You do know you'll have to pay them, don't you? :grin:
Most guys I build for like 16's if they are wing shooters. Replica guns are generally mass produced by people who sell guns to the masses that don't know any better. :wink:KHickam said:Mike - Surfing around your website I noticed a pre-dominance of 16 ga guns. What is the reasoning behind this - I shoot lots of modern 16 ga and I think they are the perfect gauge, but most of the replica guns I see are 54-58-62 caliber.
Just curious
Now it's a whole "nother" story? Holland makes only about 70 guns a year. Surely, even given the nature of some of their pieces, they could make one in five months. But demand.....if I am number 220 on their list, I am going to wait three years.If a builder can't deliver you a custom gun under 5 months or so - assuming he's not really busy - run, don't walk......
Why are you even posting here in this thread then? The original poster is looking for a PC Smoothbore.I'm not concerned about PC/HC so I don't have to take time to study books and talk research. That helps.
Pete D. said:Five months a long time? A well run shop should be able to do a custom gun in that time?
That's a bit of an oversimplification. There are "custom" or "bespoke" firearms of varying quality.
Example - I know they are not making MLers but call Holland and Holland - a fairly experienced and well run shop with an appropriate number of employees - and ask them how long it will take for them to make you a rifle or a shotgun. They assign one man to make a particular gun - like a one man shop, he will do everything from start to finish. It will take longer than five months. Wait times are one to three years. For some other shops, five years is not unheard of (Fabbri).
Mike Brooks and others like him produce fine firearms; there will be a wait.
Pete
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