He made a beautiful dachshund saddle for me that I am going to use on a bicycle, Sean is a ruler. Period.
I was surprised at how close he was to other estimates I had gotten. Ultimately travel expenses are what will likely make me use someone local to me (but also a HAMBer ).
what can I do to make you change your mind?? Yes, a person does have to consider travel expenses BUT the shop will work with you. I drove Big Olds to the HAMB Drags which I was going to go to anyway and the boys took him from me then even though it was a few weeks before my scheduled start date. It's saved me the fuel and extra time off work so it was worth it. If the timing would have been better I could have picked him up while I was down there for the Day of the Drags event and driven him home from there. If I wanted to leave him in TX longer I could and then just drive him home after the Lonestar Roundup. There is ALWAYS something cool going on it TX so make it coincide with two events in TX and your golden. Trust me, you'll kick yourself in the butt later if only alittle travel expenses is the difference between a Fat Lucky interior or not. It was cost for me so I scarificed almost every weekend last winter doing a second job painting the inside of houses to save up the money. I'll never regret working hard to pay for something I really, really want......especially when it comes to Big Olds. I will be enjoying this interior for the rest of my life as opposed to looking at someone else's interior and saying to myself, I shoulda.....
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