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Originally Posted by mjohnson
We did it as a social thing with a few of us from work - shelled out for the appropriate jigs and tooling, as well as a trim router. Even sharing the tooling costs between five of us it was more than twice that of one of the blemished stripped lowers at PSA.
It was amusing but I think unless something changes dramatically I'll just go purchase a numbered lower and get on with life. It will make an interesting companion for my 1971 (?) Colt AR-15 though.
Life got weird and I haven't assembled it yet. I have a PSA upper and parts kit waiting...
Can't comment on fab time - I dabbled at it over a week or so but I bet it's an hour or two of chip-making now that I've done it once.
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That's pretty much what I hear from my shooting buddies who have done this. Costs more than to just buy one finished. Fun project, learning experience, best if several go in on the tooling together, etc. I do know one guy who does this as a hobby, with his tooling costs amortized over many builds, and he still has not "broken even". That's not what he's after, though. Neither is this whole "ghost gun" b.s. - he's just having fun.