Elton John (rocket man)-
The guys i read about were individual gunmakers who went out on their own. When reading about them I was quite sure I knew their reasoning for doing it all from scratch themselves. It is the same reason I do what I do when building a gun-to show off and prove what you can do. Like when I am working on these rifles to get in the Guild next year-even the Guild acknowledges that during the normal course of busienss you would typically buy items and fit them, but for your "show rifles" you need to show what you can do and make it from scratch.
I was very sure this is why those guys did it, but I was wondering what they started with and what they were trying to accomplish with the forging-the final rough shape if you will. I have spent a fair amount of time standing in "the dragon's breath" and have myself forged things that would have been easier for me to electrically weld.
