Quote Originally Posted by Freedomlover View Post
Yep. Lot's of work. But different folks have vastly different time requirements. A year or so ago I was cruising around the site of one of the bigger kiltmakers in Scotland (s***y, I don't recall which one), and he said that he turned out two handsewn finished kilts a day, and if pressed could do three. I think that if a maker was actually investing 25-30 hours, plus hundreds for material, he/she would quickly give it up as uneconomic even at $600 each.
Interesting. I have to wonder if he was teasing you or pulling your leg or there was a miscommunication or something. Barb has said that that it takes her about 20 hours to do a kilt. I believe Matt has said the same.

Bear once wrote on this board that it took him an 8-hour day plus a little more to crank out a fully machine-sewn, PV four-yard Bear Kilt.

How a custom kiltmaker could turn out three hand-sewn kilts in an 8-9 hour workday is beyond me. I could see two machine-sewn solid-color kilts, maybe. O'Neill on this board has said he can crank out a machine-sewn kilt in 4-5 hours, which boggles my mind...but OK. That's mighty darned fast, but *hey* it's within the realm of possibility. But that's machine sewn.

Three hand-sewn, wool, eight-yard kilts in one 8-9 hour work day? Three hours to make a kilt from selecting the fabric to finishing the buckles, hand-sewn? I have my doubts.

I don't doubt that that's what you heard...that's what the guy said, but I bet that something else was going on, here.