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Little-known gunsmiths...

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I know you have to be careful about who you let fine-tune your roscoe, but hey, there are some great guys out there that don't have super-long back logs. No offense here intended to the guys w/high back-logs. Just mean that there are some guys out there doing pretty good work with little customer base for whatever reason. Just gettin started, just a part-time hobby cuz they love playing w/guns, etc. Anyone else out there had good experiences with them? My personal SA has never had a malfunction and shoots better than I do, and made by a small-town smith with a small customer base. Perhaps it had a lot to do with what Hilton was talking about once; attention to detail. Doesn't mean that a Heinie, Vickers or BCP aren't still on my MOST WANTED list, but I'm pretty happy with my small-town smith.

Eric
 
#3 ·
The owner of the range where I shoot (and the local IPSC club's "home range")has built several nice guns for IPSC club members. He did an excellent trigger job on my Kimber and will probably do more work on it in the future.
I'm sure there are many good smiths out there nobody's heard of. Getting "famous" takes a lot of luck as well as skill. Take the music business. Some of the best bands I've heard were local "bar bands". Excellent musicians nobody (away from here) ever heard of. The bands that hit it big not only have talent, they were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to impress the right people.

Dave
 
#6 ·
In the North Dallas Area give Williams Gun repair a try. He works out of Collin County Gun Range on the weekends and does custom work at home for selected customers and the local cop shop. His specialty is the 1911.

Yah, he is my husband and you can reach us by my e-mail addy from my profile.
 
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I just logged on. Looks like a good site. I just want to introduce myself to anyone who cares. Mark Hartshorne is my name and I own and operate Pinnacle High performance. I have been a pistolsmith since 1991 working fulltime in another smiths shop till 1997. Went out on my own working partime at it since then, while holding down a fulltime job as a tool and die maker. I am officially going fulltime on 6/4/01. You can check out some of my work at http://www.pinnacle-guns.com , Most of you are probably saying, Yea, he is a little known gunsmith.

thanks,
Mark
 
#19 ·
The stuff from SDM Fabricating looks pretty nice I must say :smile: He's got a nice pic of a Delta Elite on there. Now I want one, minus one thing hehehe:

Novak's


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Obviously, I prefer Heinie's :grin:




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#20 ·
Mark,

Welcome aboard. Always glad to see another smith join the party. I took a look at your web site -- nice work! I thought it was interesting that you have custom stocks to make a single stack feel like a double stack. Just recently we had someone post that they had hands that were so big that they actually preferred the double stack girth. Sounds like your stocks would be just the ticket for him. BTW, we have a number of members that are from PA. I am sure a few will wanna know more about your work.

DD
 
#21 ·
Mark,

I just took a look at your site. Very nice stuff you have there :grin:

Got a question for you: have you every built any 10mm blasters?


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Have to add Greg Copeland of Copeland Custom in Ark City, KS, to the list of excellent, but little known, gunsmiths. He's built or worked on pistols for just about every member of the Echo Valley Pistol Club. His work is uniformly great.

Chad
 
#26 ·
How about Teddy Jacobson in Houston, "Actions by "T".? I was referred to Teddy for smoothing out the trigger on my Kahr P9 which turned out great. I also enjoyed visiting with Teddy for a while and learned that he builds full house 1911's. I believe he chooses premium parts, coupled with superb attention to detail to the "innards" that make for perfect functioning. Website is http://www.actionsbyt.com/

Here are pictures of one of his finished pieces with a damascus slide. Beautiful!

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