Bill, with the dwindling number of good smith I expect you will always have all the work you can stand. Making money on some of it might be another issue. It comes down to economy of scale, being efficient and learning to use more consumables to save more time. It does help if you can just do one procedure over and over again to not waste time on setups. Time is the only thing that is in short supply and you can not buy anymore.
When doing a job that involves sandpaper I discard a lot of paper which still has life left in it because a new sheet is three times as efficient. I’ll pay that extra dollar to save five minutes. For too long I squeezed every bit of life out of things like sandpaper which were cheap, at the cost of wasting time.
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