In my extensive experience I have found gunsmiths to be generally full of themselves and take pride in being unfriendly. There have been exceptions of course. Les Bauska was a wonderful guy. And Duane Weibe. And the Aussie guy up in Red Deer, Alberta who also makes gun barrels. Extremely nice guy to talk to even though he couldn't help me. The list of jerk gunsmiths I've encountered is, however, very long. They are a dying breed and most know it. Greatly impacts their attitude when competition is scarce or nonexistent.