There has to be a "break point" defining hand made, but I don't know what it is. There have always been machines involved, but hands turn those machines.
For my part, I don't care if a gun is "hand made" so long as it's of good quality. CNC is fine by me, and I think can make a gun as fine mechanically as any hand fitted....well, not as "fine" but as good.
This is the 21st Century, the age of the Jetsons, and hand fitting just isn't affordable. It's going out of style, and you can grieve that if you want, but remember all the junk that came out of Europe in pre-WW I Belgium and Europe, and maybe England, and make the comparisons there.
I guess I would say that if it spends more time at the bench than it does on the machines, it's close enough to hand made for me.
Last edited by Genelang; 02/10/12 09:25 PM.
