Gunsmith in Phoenix, AZ - Can anyone recommend one?

[Outlaw75]

Looking for a gunsmith to install a Williams aperture sight on one of my rimfires. Any recommendations?

I'm in the NW valley, so looking at Phoenix/Glendale/Scottsdale area. Don't really want to have to go down to Mesa or Tempe if possbile.

 

[Johnm1]

That’s going to be hard. The only one I could recommend is at Rio and I’m sure that was the thought about not driving to Mesa.

Accuracy Speaks is good and has the backlog to support that. But I understand not wanting the drive from Glendale to Far East Mesa. I just don’t know of any others that I could verify.

 

[PWC]

Arrington Arms...used to be up on Deer Valley but moved to Surprise. Rebarreled my M1 yrs ago. Don't know if still working, but worth the search.

 

[Outlaw75]

That’s going to be hard. The only one I could recommend is at Rio and I’m sure that was the thought about not driving to Mesa.

Accuracy Speaks is good and has the backlog to support that. But I understand not wanting the drive from Glendale to Far East Mesa. I just don’t know of any others that I could verify.

No knock on Mesa, it's a little job (drill and tap the receiver) and not worth the long haul.

Arrington Arms...used to be up on Deer Valley but moved to Surprise. Rebarreled my M1 yrs ago. Don't know if still working, but worth the search.

Only thing I can find on him is a listing from back when he was in Deer Valley. Website doesn't exist anymore either.

 

[KY DAN]

Probably be easier to find a machine shop local to you.

If a Gunsmith isn't a tool and die maker they might as well be useless.

I stand by what I say and refuse to retract, too many 1 hit wonders armed with AGI videos that change out parts and are "experts" on their own minds.

 

[4v50 Gary]

And a tool and die maker certainly has excellent skills and can probably make about any part, but one in just that profession doesn't necessarily understand how parts interact and function together. Can he fix a Webley revolver that is out of time? Can he fix a stock that is broken or time a S&W cylinder?

It all depends on how much machinining a gunsmith was taught at his/her school. We had two semesters but just about all of us took it throughout our program just to make tools, work on guns or make parts or because of other classes like blueprinting, custom revolver, custom pistol. It could also depend on the gunsmith's background. The best machinist in our class worked 17 years as a machinist before going to school. Naturally he was better than any of us BUT he should be. After all, he made parts (via a contractor) for NASA.

I admit I was only one of two to make my own barrel vise (guys with $$$ bought it) and I did make a receiver remover (to safely separate an action from an acraglass bedded stock). There were many other tools including a little jig to reassemble the magazine release to the trigger group on a Mini-14/30.

Would I trust a guy who never took machine shop or worked in a machine shop and just watched AGI videos? Probably not.