As you found out, you'll want a bore gauge for measuring cylinders.

It depends on the quality of the instrument, digital isn't necessarly more accurate.

I believe my base price from Gord was $1800 to start with, but my bill ended up being a good amount higher as I had him do a buch of extra work. Such as had the crank magnafluxed & nitrided. I also had them pull all the soft plugs in the crank so you could properly clean all the oil galleys. Gord mentioned he was surprised how dirty the galleys were. Then tap for threaded plugs. He cleaned up some of the casting flash for the galleys on the block as well as completely removing all casting flash from the head (he spent a couple hours just on the head, probably should have just done it myself to save some $). I also had the block o-ringed.

He did some minor head work as well, decked it, installed all new bronze guides (oversized so he could machine for proper fit). Checked all specs to verify in tolerance, checked & shimmed Kiggly beehives for correct install height, installed new valve stem seals.