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Truck Shop

Truck Shop

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I seriously doubt I would do it.
#1 He's collector-and like 99% of collectors they want everything perfect. A nit picker. It's all about them.
#2 To move the cab back 1 foot takes a bunch of cash and probably not worth the trouble.
#3 My labor would far out weigh materials and the cost of materials won't be cheap.
#4 At my age I'm not really interested in putting up with someone's rich guy attitude.

#5 He called me to tell me he was removing some things he didn't like on the truck I sold him-that's ok it's his truck. But he didn't need to tell me that.
Which tells me a lot about him.
 
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crane operator

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I personally wouldn't want to build a custom truck for someone else for all those reasons you listed. I see it a lot in the home building sector, rich person with money and no skills wants custom cabinetry hand built at home depot prices.

And they typically expect their "unhappyness" with the final product should be a excuse to not pay the full bill, when their unsatisfaction with the final product, is directly tied to poor decisions made on their own part early in the project. Not a lack of skill on the craftsmans part.
 
petepilot

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crane operator said:
I personally wouldn't want to build a custom truck for someone else for all those reasons you listed. I see it a lot in the home building sector, rich person with money and no skills wants custom cabinetry hand built at home depot prices.

And they typically expect their "unhappyness" with the final product should be a excuse to not pay the full bill, when their unsatisfaction with the final product, is directly tied to poor decisions made on their own part early in the project. Not a lack of skill on the craftsmans part.
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amen
 
skyking1

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My wife has made a wedding present quilt for all my nieces and nephews, my brother. They are works of art and love.
This last wedding the niece requested certain colors and to somehow put cats on it.
It took all the fun out of it. It was more of a commission and not a present.
In the end she still had fun with it, but it was touch and go there for a while.
When you built the last truck you just let it all hang out, did what came to mind. Doing something like that "to spec" would steal all the creative juices right out of it.
 
Truck Shop

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Your absolutely correct SK & CO. Mother Deuce called it a masterpiece -work of art, she is correct also. Along with many others on here.
I went at it working several ideas at one time, creating as I went doing what I wanted not what others wanted. It would turn into a job
if I built one for someone else, the fun would disappear. Below is a example of a LT Mack I drew some years back, something I like to do
also. At least with this work no one can take parts off or complain, it's just pencil, ink and paper.

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