re: Brave or Stupid?

Here’s an update for you, the estimate is out of this guy’s price range, so ‘being an engineer by trade’, he is considering having a metal junction fabricated for eight legs to be inserted.
Wants to know what size timbers to use and would like me to prepare the legs (eight pieces of wood) and organise the glass to make the table.
This equates to a lot of running around, a lot of liability (I’m thinking of the €1300 piece of glass), for little or no reward.
I politely declined to be his lackey.
Thank you all for taking the time to contribute to this thread. I feel terrible that I have wasted your time.