How do you decide what to charge?

[BILLY D.]

skeet

Had to laugh at your comment about the night before deer season and customers.

With my smith it started about a week before season and of course they all wanted their guns back.......tomorrow. They had great expectations. My smith always told them they can expect in one hand and spit in the other hand and see which one fills up first as he showed them racks of rifles and shotguns awaiting repairs. You could see the oops on their faces.

I used to work for him in the fall as a receptionist, cleaning specialist, bore sighter and scope installer and some other soft jobs that I could handle. He very seldom ever came out of the shop area as it was enclosed. Otherwise he would have to spend 75% of his time BS ing with customers and customers were not allowed in the shop area. Liability.

Last year he got fried on smithing closed up shop and got a job in the "Oil Patch". Yes, please don't tell my folks I work in the oil patch, they think I'm a piano tuner in a whore house.

Best wishes, Bill