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.