While I agree that good craftsmen are always in demand, I've found nearly all of gunsmiths that I've used promise one thing and deliver another, in one form or another. With my guns, it has always been late delivery, some not by much, some several times the promised period. I start calling the gunsmith well ahead of the promised date, because I know I'm long forgotten. I get the usual exchange of promises, I wait more and call again to remind them again. I get the feeling that many gunsmiths manage their work helter skelter. Others show you work examples and deliver something else.
It's a really frustrating experience most of the time for me.
There has been one exception to all this and I consider him a friend.
