Similarly, Mr. Sylvester said, "only the high-end builders building custom houses recommend them to customers".
Not all of Mr. Wine's clients, who include hotel designers and high-end builders, are so fastidious about content.
In Naples, the wealthy retirement community south of Fort Myers, Ron Labbe owned a lumberyard that sold materials to the town's high-end builders.
"People are still scared," Douglas C. Yearley Jr., chief executive of the high-end builder Toll Brothers, said in a recent interview.
Mr. Prince said he was still not quite sure what to consider the car, although he does plan an edition of three, and he thinks of the first one, recently completed for him by XV Motorsports in Irvington, N.Y., a high-end builder of modernized muscle cars, as an artist's proof.
High-end builder Toll Brothers, which has the lowest debt-to-capital ratio of all the national firms, and the Ryland Group, with the second-lowest debt level.
Even in affluent Westchester, there is a limited market for homes at the very high end, the builders said.
"We wanted to prove that sustainable homes aren't limited to the high end," said Andrew J. Gil, the builder, who is with the Mystic River Building Company, in Mystic.
The proprietary SCRIMP process is owned by TPI Composites, Pearson's parent company, which licenses the process to various high-end boat builders.
I assembled the components, going for high end, as this build was to replace the gaming rig I'd bought from Voodoo PC when it was a boutique builder of high-performance PCs before it became part of HP.
