File finish or upgrade to brushed aluminum

[olddog]

I was looking at the options on the price page of the Kirkham site.

The standard or bare bone default that the page opens to is a file finish on the body.

For about 15K you can upgrade to a brushed aluminum or a polished aluminum.

I assume the file finish would be ready to paint, but maybe not. So what is require to get it ready to paint?

Polishing aluminum is pretty straight forward to do. I have done that. How does one brush aluminum? I'm assuming this is a fair amount of work if the price is the same as polishing it.

I'm guessing 10 to 15 hours labor based on the price, so double that for a novice. I could handle 40hr, but do I have the skills??? Is easy to do just requires work, or is it highly skilled work to get it right?

EDIT: Oops, I missed a decimal place. $15,000 would be 150 hr at 100$/hr or 100 hr at 150$/hr --- don't know the labor rate. Thnks King-cobra for waking me up.