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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3673475" data-attributes="member: 5412">It sounds like you have a great start.several members have offered suggestions to further your knowledge and training. Some are accomplished yet retired gunsmiths.You will never get rich being a smith but if your passionate about the field, you will never be out of work.My suggestion would be to specialize in a certain platform be it shotgun, center fire, or pistol.Find something popular in the competition world to focuson, antique firearms, fine shotguns, competition shotguns, long range CF  or something like this to get a name when good shooters mention your name as the person that prepped the firearm that won that match.You must promote yourself on social media and be able to back up your claims or social media will destroy you.Most folks that start getting into the hierarchy of gunsmithing find that answering the phone or responding to social media results in time away from what makes them money so they get a bad rep for poor customer service from people that don’t understand how they need time on the mill and lathe to get out the product they make a living from.I’ve seen a couple of the big time internet gunsmiths are hiring phone people.Dtech is one I use. I was totally pissed off with a backlog of a year for a custom rifle wondering what the status was of my build.I finally got it and was so impressed that another went on order.Owner hired a phone person that answered and gave updates. Kept me complacent during the entire build telling me my parts were on back order and why they weren’t readily available and so on.He wasn’t BS’ing me either.So that is my advice as a user of gunsmiths.</blockquote>

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