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Originally Posted by thesound
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with how much easier sisal wheels will make your scratch removing process. As far as how much you were quoted: that's just straight up highway robbery. Reason I say this is because if you do this long enough to get a wide variety of different parts under your belt, you'll eventually come to appreciate any occasion where the parts that you get are nice nice and flat, and a-symmetrical. People who do polishing for a living PRAY to get parts like this: they're easy. The guy who gave you that quote was either: A-extremely proud of himself, or B-already had his bills taken care of for the month so he figured he could afford to roll the dice. Either way, once you get your stuff done you can silently bask in the glory of the idea: "I just did at LEAST $900 worth of work here. Go me."
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When I was starting out, I did an intake plenum that had a lot of flat surfaces. You're right, they are easier to work on, but they had better be good because everything shows up. Well, I couldn't get them perfect but charged the guy accordingly, and he was most understanding. When he called a big "professional" shop they wanted to charge him another $750 because it had "already been worked on" - all they had to do was to color it up properly - I already had it level and scratch-free. Robbery.
I've been jacking up my prices just to get some time off...it's working beautifully, lol...