IIRC if you enchant the bars you are 'practicing' with (and just sell the back to the merchant you will roughly break even. Of course this is a lo tof mana so it makes the whole process much slower. I think I dumped about 5k into Loraen's JC because I was lazy.
I know Lighthawk (the original Lighthawk) spent like 2 weeks in the tunnel and made a decent amount of money; part of it of course is that as a regular tunnel dweller you can start to make good trades.
All in all it's probably faster to just level up to 50 and farm the frenzy (if you can get there before Catherin!)
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