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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 313266" data-attributes="member: 412"><p>With a manual stock duplicator they can have the basic shape and action inlet 95%-97% done in a few hours.  CNC controlled milling equipment is even faster, but, it takes a craftsman/woman for that last 3%-5%.</p><p></p><p>That last 3%-5% can take a week, a month, or more depending upon how ornate you want the hardware/furniture to be.  Stock cross-bolts, hours. "Supergrade" sling swivels hours and hours.  Skeletonized grip cap, lots and lots of hours.  Neider style butt-plate hours and hours and hours.  Fitting exotic wood frond/grip caps, hours, and hours, and hours, and hours.  Checkering, weeks of hours.  Then hand-rubbing in 20-30 coats of oil, sanding/steel-wooling between coats.</p><p></p><p>There's a reason why "close to finished" doesn't cost all that much, and "customized complete" is astronomical.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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