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To echo what others have said, tool quality, go to the community college and learn how to use a welder, a lathe, a mill... These will make you soooo much better.
As for trying to do it all? That's VERY tough. Most gunsmiths I know have a "nitch" that they prefer to work on. Mine is antiques, and restoration. I can make my own springs, checker wood, and have an amazing stock duplicator. I can niterblue, salt-blue, cold blue, brown, and slow rust blue. I have had the pleasure of working on $25,000 shotguns, and have an original 1873 44-40 in the shop now for a new leaf spring.
I can work on your AR, but I LOVE the old rifles and doubles!
Remember: The fastest way to make a million dollars as a Gunsmith is to start with 2 million, and cut your losses after the first million is gone.
As for trying to do it all? That's VERY tough. Most gunsmiths I know have a "nitch" that they prefer to work on. Mine is antiques, and restoration. I can make my own springs, checker wood, and have an amazing stock duplicator. I can niterblue, salt-blue, cold blue, brown, and slow rust blue. I have had the pleasure of working on $25,000 shotguns, and have an original 1873 44-40 in the shop now for a new leaf spring.
I can work on your AR, but I LOVE the old rifles and doubles!
Remember: The fastest way to make a million dollars as a Gunsmith is to start with 2 million, and cut your losses after the first million is gone.