[TheForge] The Business of Bl;acksmithing, how to charge?
Jerry Frost
[email protected]
Thu Mar 6 13:52:00 2003
ARGH! I hate replying to my own posts but I must make a correction. <sigh>
The first sentence in the following paragraph should read. "This is Tough
Enough with one off projects." . . Instead of "Tougher".
>
> This is tougher with one off projects so they're always bid at a higher
> rate. Production jobs are tougher to bid accurately as you will become
more
> efficient as you make repeated items so you can't really base a bid on the
> test piece. You have to be able to accurately estimate your production
speed
> and this can make or bury you.
>
Of course the way I do most things it's tougher no what way I do it. <grin>
Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
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Meadow Lakes, AK.