What should the labor expense be to copy a stock profile if I own the blank and a perfect stock?

Sako,
here's a hard one... duplicating a stock WILL damage the original,it's a question of how much. the rate varies from ~100-150 bucks that will have you something to finish,to 600, to have somehting to checker...

jeffe

some stockmakers are charging $450.00 to machine customers wood
which is a bargain

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Originally posted by Gus:
some stockmakers are charging $450.00 to machine customers wood
which is a bargain

IMO, that price would aproach a "bargain" only if it was done to within a very few thousandths of the pattern stock; the inletting virtually a tight press fit and the outside ready for final sanding.

quote:

Originally posted by Gus:
some stockmakers are charging $450.00 to machine customers wood
which is a bargain

That’s normally using their own pattern stocks, not the customers. I would think that a stock maker would not be real anxious to use a customers pattern stock for obvious reasons. If the stock doesn’t turn out to the customers satisfaction the customer will invariably blame it on you or your machine rather than on his “perfect†pattern stock.

Gentlemen, thank you for the input... another dream to follow up on.