You do realize that works out to about $10 an hour and not that you'd want to, but you could flip burgers for more money than that.

I certainly don't want to tell you how to run your own business, Ron, but I feel the biggest mistake you make is not knowing when to say enough is enough. In economics, there's something called the law of diminishing returns. It's a phrase used to refer to a point at which the level of profits or benefits gained is less than the amount of money or energy invested. Knowing you, you'll spend 40 hours getting a playfield 95% perfect, then spend another 40 hours getting it the other 5%. Do you see the problem? I understand you want perfection, but sometimes it comes at too great a cost.

More than once I've seen you post that you'll spend all day sanding and buffing a cleared playfield. Eight hours or more to sand and buff a playfield? That's nuts. I've got a local guy that does mine. I'll make you a bet. My guy takes less than a couple hours to do my playfields. I'll let you do one and my guy will do one and I'll let everyone compare them and guess who did which one. I don't think they could tell.

Don't get me wrong, Ron, you do beautiful work. You just need to figure out a way to reduce the number of hours involved in each one. That, or double the cost.

So you have no problem spending 8 or more hours sanding and buffing a playfield.

LOL I have also seen Ron's work. I've installed many of his playfields in the restorations I've done. Ron does beautiful work.

Thank you! That's EXACTLY what I'm trying to say.

I also stand corrected. It takes my guy close to half a day to sand and buff.

I couldn't agree more!! Keep doing what you're doing, Ron.

It certainly doesn't hurt, but it's not necessary.

Hate to say it, but the last couple I've done, the old playfields weren't even worthy of hanging on the wall.