How many of you hand lay your own rail?

Building your own turnouts can basically be divided into 3 basic categories:

Build your own turnout from scratch starting with just plain rail. You file the points, bend the rails and solder to form the frogs and guard rails. This results in the cheapest turnout construction and lowest cost of entry. Turnout can be built to fit the location but obviously takes some skill to do this. The resulting turnout appearance is decent but not the greatest. If you go this route (or next bullet), I would recommend picking up one of those 1" belt sanders from Harbor Freight or Amazon as they will definitely speed up the filing process where needed.
Build your own turnout using Fast Tracks jigs. This has a relatively high cost of entry and restricts you to a turnout frog number based on how many different size jigs you purchase, e.g #5, #6, etc. If you plan on building many turnouts, this can save you money down the road as the cost per turnout goes down the more you build using these jigs. It is not the most cost-effective choice for building a small number of turnouts, especially if you purchase a varied number of different size frogs fixtures. However, the skill level required is less (this is basically a "paint by numbers" operation) and speed of which you build the turnout is faster using these Fast Tracks jigs vs. bullet #1. The resulting turnout appearance pretty much matches that of bullet #1.
The final method to build your own turnout is to use castings akin to those offered by Right-O-Way. This has a medium cost of entry but that cost is really based upon how deep you want to go into the ROW ecosystem and the appearance you are after. Since it is basically an "a-la-carte" menu, you can control the cost per turnout and the level of detail in your resulting turnout build. If you go for the "Full Monty" turnout route that includes all the ROW tie plates, rail braces, guard rails, etc., then you are going to easily get close to $100 or more per turnout and you still have to do the work to build it. However, the resulting turnout appearance is second-to-none. ROW also offers a number of different frog sizes to choose from so you still get the freedom to fit the turnout to the location and not bound to what a jig is built for. The skill level to build a turnout using ROW parts is probably close to that needed for building a turnout with the Fast Tracks jigs - the layout and assembly of the turnout is a little more involved than Fast Tracks but on the flip-side you don't need to file your own points or build your own frogs since there are casting for that, so it kinda balances out in that regard.

Here are some piks of an O Scale "Full Monty" ROW #5 turnout built on a piece of Homasote along with a comparison in size to an HO scale locomotive and HO Scale #6 Walthers Code 83 turnout.