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Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ?
      18/06/15 07:42 AM

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Unfortunately and possibly the best gunsmith we had retired from gun smithing due to not enough customers that were willing to pay a 'Fair' hourly rate but wanted the best work money could buy. Anyone who knew or saw Alex Beer's work would agree. He built Double Rifles from scratch. This was Australia's loss.







I met Alex many times at gun shows and he is a gentleman as well as being very skilled, his work was superb. Unfortunately here in Australia most people are not prepared to spend money for skilled labor particularly when engineering is involved. With guns it is even worse as they are relatively small so people think that if it is small it should only cost a small amount. Most people would not complain at spending $20000+ on a kitchen which takes a fraction of the time to manufacture yet would faint at spending $2000 on having some gunsmithing work done, but a kitchen is very big and everyone can see it. We do a lot of classic car restoration work and generally we don't have any problems with payment as again the items are big and flashy, although we still occasionally get customers come to us wanting to restore something like an MG TC and they tell us that they have a tight budget. I just laugh at them and tell them that with Racing or Restoration there is no such thing as a budget and if you have to stick to a budget then you really can't afford to be restoring a car. The amount of work that goes into something like that is staggering and that is the same with gunsmithing if you are doing it properly. It would be interesting if Mr. Dorleac was to tell us how many hours he spends on his creations, I bet it would be a huge amount and his actual hourly rate would not be that high.

Waidmannsheil.

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* Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? 500Boswell 01/06/15 03:00 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? ChrisPer   13/06/15 09:52 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? NitroXAdministrator   15/06/15 05:39 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? NitroXAdministrator   16/06/15 08:13 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? NitroXAdministrator   16/06/15 08:15 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? CHAPUISARMES   17/06/15 08:16 AM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? lapua   07/03/19 08:06 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? mchughcb   07/03/19 10:37 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? Waidmannsheil   18/06/15 07:42 AM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? ChrisPer   18/06/15 09:38 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? Waidmannsheil   18/06/15 10:36 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? ChrisPer   24/06/15 05:31 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? NitroXAdministrator   01/07/15 02:18 AM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? NitroXAdministrator   29/01/19 09:53 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? sbs470   29/01/19 10:44 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? 500Boswell   30/01/19 08:40 AM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? Rockdoc   18/06/15 09:09 AM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? GG375   17/06/15 05:51 PM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? gryphon   18/06/15 06:31 AM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? gryphon   02/06/15 10:43 AM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? 500Boswell   02/06/15 11:30 AM
. * * Re: Double Gunsmiths in Australia ? gryphon   02/06/15 11:33 AM

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