Currently Active Gunsmiths with Revolver Expertise as of Summer 2022

[fatdog]

It occurred to me that we now have very few gunsmiths who actually know what they are doing with revolvers at this point in history. It would be nice to have a list of those who are still active and taking in new work now.

I will offer two that I have personal experience with, and I can vouch for their abilities.

Karl Sokol
Chestnut Mountain Sports
155 State Forest Road
P. O. Box 638
West Rutland, VT 05777
info@chestnutmountainsports.net
(802) 438-5732

Karl has worked on multiple S&W and Colt Revolvers for me. He has a huge backlog so turn around is not fast, but no questions about the quality of his work and his knowledge in this arena.


Nelson Ford
The Gunsmith Inc.
North Village Plaza -- 10210 North 32nd Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85028
(602) 992-0050
info@thegunsmith.com

Nelson really knows his way around S&W revolvers and has done some great K frame restoration action jobs for me that took spitting out of time guns and got them back in what is probably better shape than they left the factory with butter smooth action jobs that still set off every primer. Nelson has pretty good turn around time on his S&W revolver tuning package, less than 90 days for sure.

I hope others can add some to this thread based on personal success with active revolver gunsmiths.

[JCN]

Eli at TK customs.

Built Michael Poggie’s USPSA championship revolver and built a couple for me as well.

[RevolverRob]

Cylinder and Slide

Clark Custom Guns

Clements Custom Guns

Reeder Custom Guns

Linbaugh Custom Sixguns (SA only)

BC Armory (Bruce Warren)

[Artemas2]

Dave Laubert "Defensive Creations LLC"

Never had any work done by him, but I have followed his FB page for years and seen some stunning work, also had a chance to meet him in person and found him to be great person.

[FrankB]

Dave Olhasso is still VERY much in business, and has done work on my revolvers. He is/was a P-F forum member, and his turnaround time is fast, at least for me. He’s in Croydon, PA: https://www.olhasso.com/services.html
Make sure to click on “Revolvers” on Dave’s site.

[willie]

Shops have turnover, and as people come and go, quality of work varies. I refer to larger businesses. Also, sometimes owners sell businesses, and the name goes to new owners. I got burned and fried twice in one instance with holsters, but likelihood of such applies to other areas. In the past I sent a new revolver to the factory. It was returned unprepared. A phone call revealed they could not fix it. One reason that revolver smiths sometimes fail to satisfy is that tolerances are off, and they lack a bucket of parts. Further, when Smith was cranking out police revolvers, their intent was to sell service weapons and not super smooth models to satisfy hobbyists.

[farscott]

Marc Morganti
Gemini Customs
717 Botkins Lane
Frankfort, KY 40601

Phone: (502) 545-9707

[DamonL]

Sandy Garret at Northern Virginia Gun Works.

[CJK]

I have a 28-2 Smith and Wesson that is literally a basket case. The hammer stud is broken off. Who would be the one to press a new stud in and rebuild it?

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[FrankB]

I have a 28-2 Smith and Wesson that is literally a basket case. The hammer stud is broken off. Who would be the one to press a new stud in and rebuild it?

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Mark Novak fixes broken revolver studs. It’s tough to find his website, but he’s on Instagram and YouTube.

https://youtu.be/wMt78qX1ED0

[JTMcC]

Frank Glenn

11012 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85028
602-978-9089

[Zeke38]

Andy Horvath
Diagonal Road Gunshop
14131 Diagonal Road
Lagrange, Ohio
https://i.imgur.com/KuXUiVrm.jpg

[Wingate's Hairbrush]

Mark Harthsorne
Pinnacle High Performance
5456 RT. 145 LAURYS STATION, PA. 18059
https://pinnaclehighperformance.com

[Shooter2011]

Dave Olhasso is still VERY much in business, and has done work on my revolvers. He is/was a P-F forum member, and his turnaround time is fast, at least for me. He’s in Croydon, PA: https://www.olhasso.com/services.html
Make sure to click on “Revolvers” on Dave’s site.

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[FrankB]

Shooter2011 Use http://www.rafire.com/ Dave does most of his works there, and you can just give them a call. 👍

[Shooter2011]

Mark Novak fixes broken revolver studs. It’s tough to find his website, but he’s on Instagram and YouTube.

https://youtu.be/wMt78qX1ED0

Watched it from start to finish and it was a great video.

[Shooter2011]

Mark Harthsorne
Pinnacle High Performance
5456 RT. 145 LAURYS STATION, PA. 18059
https://pinnaclehighperformance.com

Unfortunately Mark is no longer in business. The link to his website goes to another website. He had some health issues and my guess is that he had to retire but he did phenomenal work on my S&W revolvers

[Wingate's Hairbrush]

Unfortunately Mark is no longer in business. The link to his website goes to another website. He had some health issues and my guess is that he had to retire but he did phenomenal work on my S&W revolversYup. When I posted that he was still working; it was a little over a year ago confirmed he had to close shop. Great rep as a revolver 'smith. I hope he's doing okay.

[Malamute]

Eli at TK customs.

Built Michael Poggie’s USPSA championship revolver and built a couple for me as well.

I dont know Elis background, if Tom taught him he should be very good. Tom was very good when he was working on Smiths.

[Gun Mutt]

Andy Horvath
https://i.imgur.com/KuXUiVrm.jpg

Late to view this thread, obvi, but fekkkkk...that's hawt!