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I just make bike frames for fun and side thing, but with a good chainstay/seatstay notching jig and a good set up, a simple fillet brazed frame would be about 10h work ready for powder. Maybe a bit less, maybe a bit more. TIG is quicker of course, and it's easy to make a frame more complicated isn't it.
Pick your daily rate £300-500+vat depending on the scale of your set up, employees, Liability insurance, etc etc.
Add £200-300 for tubeset and drop outs.
£60-120 for powdercoat depending on how many the same colour.
There has to be another 2h after powdercoat doing threads, stickers, packing etc.
But most framebuilders talk of the hours/days discussing geometry and spec with customers - which inevitably adds to the cost of a custom frame and why so many try and do batches and reduce choice - That's a time-problem if you are doing 2 or 3 bikes a week and have 10+ customers discussing spec at any one moment - that's a lot of desk time.