..then I have the experience of knowing just what the concerns are without speculating.
"Speculating" of course being how those of us who know less trigger those who know more to step up and share the particulars.
I mean - PM has run this forum for "a while" now, specific fees have been posted several times for various grinders around the USA, yet we've not really covered the
economy of scale if more among us could schedule our needs so as to "pool" them into the same time-window at a grind shop. Given we
now know that "it very much does matter".
Possible goal?
What if.. a grind shop could schedule an
annual "South Bend week" or a
semi-annual "10EE week", and folk in need then make pre-commitments to participate at a known, averaged-out fee? Use it or lose it, even - onus on each to get their bed on-site in time or stand a forfeiture of some sort?
2CW, but...
That sort of package could pop my two 10EE beds out of limbo 'coz a
professional re-do makes them attractive to the next minder, even if I've not followed-up with the saddle & TS refit, but left that for better hands.
Part of my "first, do no harm" position from the old medical surgeon's maxim is to recognize that there ARE "better hands" for many things than my own, and that their task will be more easily done if following untouched straightforward wear AND NOT a half-vast scraping job, partially botched, then abandoned midway that screws-up the baseline assessment measurements. Or worse.
Over to Richard & others, but I'd bet it is easily as frustrating to follow Bubba-butchery as for a Barber to 'fix' a homemade haircut. Far better a worn machine not yet messed with, no?