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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Kiff" data-source="post: 845401" data-attributes="member: 54948"><p>Sinarms , Bear , Hired gun as always I thank you for your support and friend ship . You know for all the folks out there building rifles or having rifles built,I don't think a lot of folks under stand how important the reamer design is and the time it takes to manufacture/ grind a reamer to a fine tolerance . My friend Hugh Hendrickson takes along time to get them correct and his deliveries are 1-2 years in some cases and rightly so for a one man shop. Some others are 16-32 weeks for the same reason , demand. We are no different than them only with 80 % more demand . Now that I have more help we have a 48 hour turn around for the folks that have a emergency, just ask the sales department if you need it. I talked with a customer the other day that read this post , he said one of our competitors quoted 16- 24 weeks and 295 bucks for a custom reamer, 103 for a gauge and he asked me how I can get them out faster and at half the price . Well I told him two years ago I found myself getting 30 to 90 more reamer orders than I could grind per day with embarrassing deliveries of 1-22 weeks or more . I was also forced to hired extra sales staff that didn't know a reamer from a carburetor because of the tremendous demand . Well needless to say I was at the point of loosing are reputation not only in deliveries but my personal commitment to my customers and friends . I was up one night staring at the ceiling worrying , deciding if I should raise my prices like my competitors do to control and regulate orders or grow. It seems every thing is worse at midnight staring at the ceiling in the dark . I decided to break away from the rest of our competitors and grow. I invested over 2.8 million dollars in new machinery and hired an additional 44 employees including some of the best tool grinders from Boeing , Marlin , US Repeating Arms and three from a couple of my competitors to help train . I have taken the embarrassing spot I was in and learned from it . We are a big train a rolling now with 146 employees that are all in there final steps of training running 127 CNC and manual machines 3 shifts . Tuesday I sign the paper work on a new Thirty thousand sq. ft. building and I will be hiring many more for that division . This is how I can get parts out faster now for less money. In the next year we will be kicking our precision chamber reamers out in 1 day to 6 weeks like I did the years after I left JGS and started my own shop, that made our reputation then and it will now . I have more folks in shipping and inspection than three of my competitors entire staff put together . I found a man has to put his money wear his mouth is from time to time and if he needs a extra hand for help he only need to look at the end of his shirt sleeve . Remember if you ever need a custom reamer ground I am at the shop designing reamers from 6AM to 5PM so don't hesitate to call me .Thanks Dave</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Kiff, post: 845401, member: 54948"] Sinarms , Bear , Hired gun as always I thank you for your support and friend ship . You know for all the folks out there building rifles or having rifles built,I don't think a lot of folks under stand how important the reamer design is and the time it takes to manufacture/ grind a reamer to a fine tolerance . My friend Hugh Hendrickson takes along time to get them correct and his deliveries are 1-2 years in some cases and rightly so for a one man shop. Some others are 16-32 weeks for the same reason , demand. We are no different than them only with 80 % more demand . Now that I have more help we have a 48 hour turn around for the folks that have a emergency, just ask the sales department if you need it. I talked with a customer the other day that read this post , he said one of our competitors quoted 16- 24 weeks and 295 bucks for a custom reamer, 103 for a gauge and he asked me how I can get them out faster and at half the price . Well I told him two years ago I found myself getting 30 to 90 more reamer orders than I could grind per day with embarrassing deliveries of 1-22 weeks or more . I was also forced to hired extra sales staff that didn't know a reamer from a carburetor because of the tremendous demand . Well needless to say I was at the point of loosing are reputation not only in deliveries but my personal commitment to my customers and friends . I was up one night staring at the ceiling worrying , deciding if I should raise my prices like my competitors do to control and regulate orders or grow. It seems every thing is worse at midnight staring at the ceiling in the dark . I decided to break away from the rest of our competitors and grow. I invested over 2.8 million dollars in new machinery and hired an additional 44 employees including some of the best tool grinders from Boeing , Marlin , US Repeating Arms and three from a couple of my competitors to help train . I have taken the embarrassing spot I was in and learned from it . We are a big train a rolling now with 146 employees that are all in there final steps of training running 127 CNC and manual machines 3 shifts . Tuesday I sign the paper work on a new Thirty thousand sq. ft. building and I will be hiring many more for that division . This is how I can get parts out faster now for less money. In the next year we will be kicking our precision chamber reamers out in 1 day to 6 weeks like I did the years after I left JGS and started my own shop, that made our reputation then and it will now . I have more folks in shipping and inspection than three of my competitors entire staff put together . I found a man has to put his money wear his mouth is from time to time and if he needs a extra hand for help he only need to look at the end of his shirt sleeve . Remember if you ever need a custom reamer ground I am at the shop designing reamers from 6AM to 5PM so don't hesitate to call me .Thanks Dave [/QUOTE]
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