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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8726677" data-attributes="member: 614752">It has been many years since I bought one....actually it was mostly trade but cash/trade was over 400$ (a triple stack Fi BTL 18 + 75 or 100$ cash IIRC)&nbsp; It is rather telling that the guy who made it (used to build a lot of boxes in the northeast) stopped doing it about 8 years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even at those prices I guess it&#039;s not a license to print money.&nbsp;&nbsp; That said, that was a somewhat large box for 2 15s so you might save a bit on something smaller, but again, you&#039;re talking about a skilled tradesman with a pile of money tied up into a woodshop, probably 3-4 hours of labor plus materials (and the price of lumber is absurd right now).I definitely can&#039;t vouch for anybody else but the guy I paid/traded gave me a very high quality solid and good performing box.&nbsp; No comparison to some Chinese made prefab.&nbsp; After I retired it I gave it to a buddy of mine who owns a shop who painted it, fixed up some cosmetic issues I had caused, ran it himself for a year or so, then still sold it to one of his customers. Really I don&#039;t know of anybody even doing it anymore (certainly nobody active on this board) and if I were to try to go into business for myself building boxes I wouldn&#039;t even begin to guess where to start pricing them so that I could keep the lights on and make a living.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8726677, member: 614752"] It has been many years since I bought one....actually it was mostly trade but cash/trade was over 400$ (a triple stack Fi BTL 18 + 75 or 100$ cash IIRC) It is rather telling that the guy who made it (used to build a lot of boxes in the northeast) stopped doing it about 8 years ago. Even at those prices I guess it's not a license to print money. That said, that was a somewhat large box for 2 15s so you might save a bit on something smaller, but again, you're talking about a skilled tradesman with a pile of money tied up into a woodshop, probably 3-4 hours of labor plus materials (and the price of lumber is absurd right now). I definitely can't vouch for anybody else but the guy I paid/traded gave me a very high quality solid and good performing box. No comparison to some Chinese made prefab. After I retired it I gave it to a buddy of mine who owns a shop who painted it, fixed up some cosmetic issues I had caused, ran it himself for a year or so, then still sold it to one of his customers. Really I don't know of anybody even doing it anymore (certainly nobody active on this board) and if I were to try to go into business for myself building boxes I wouldn't even begin to guess where to start pricing them so that I could keep the lights on and make a living. [/QUOTE]

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