I reckon there aren't more saw builders because:
1) It's not a good way to make a living, and there's more $$ going out then coming in.
2) If it did pay good, I imagine there'd be 17,000 talented fabricators jumping in tomorrow.
3) You have to love doing it, just like all the tuners for every sport out there.
This pissing match stuff is to be expected I guess? It happens in all pro-sports.
Someone is always faster, stronger, smarter, etc, then the next guy.
I read timbersports in OZ started back in the 1840's, because two fellas got into it at the pub over who could chop a tree down faster.
Wonder if surgeons do that?
"I could have sewed that guys head back on fer sure, and faster than you, and it would work better than before!!".