I'm curious about the design, manufacture and sale of pistol parts by several of the major pistolsmiths and custom shops.
1) Is this much of a money maker? It seems as though at one extreme, you could design a slight modification to a popular part, arrange to have a factory in China crank them out by the thousands, put your name on them, and sell them to Brownells for two or three times what you're paying the Wang Foo Widget Company for them. :wink: At the other extreme, if you spend years on research and development, then personally hand craft and inspect each part, you'll have to price your parts so high that you'd never sell enough to make a living.
2) If you actually do invent a better mousetrap, can you afford to sue the inevitable imitators who will sell low cost copies of your design?
3) How concerned would you be about problems with your name brand parts reflecting poorly upon your abilities and integrity as a gunsmith?
1) Is this much of a money maker? It seems as though at one extreme, you could design a slight modification to a popular part, arrange to have a factory in China crank them out by the thousands, put your name on them, and sell them to Brownells for two or three times what you're paying the Wang Foo Widget Company for them. :wink: At the other extreme, if you spend years on research and development, then personally hand craft and inspect each part, you'll have to price your parts so high that you'd never sell enough to make a living.
2) If you actually do invent a better mousetrap, can you afford to sue the inevitable imitators who will sell low cost copies of your design?
3) How concerned would you be about problems with your name brand parts reflecting poorly upon your abilities and integrity as a gunsmith?