2 dogs":2sh1dev3 said:
Be patient. He is the best sixgunsmith in the USA and
he is busy and backlogged.
Absolutely true. I had to wait quite a while for Alan to get around to working on the gun pictured below, but when my turn came up Alan provided excellent service at very reasonable prices and built the most accurate and best personally tailored gun I've ever had the chance to own, or even touch.
On this .357 Bisley turned Super, Alan made and installed a 9 inch custom bull barrel, fitted a rail that I manufactured, manufactured and installed a custom front sight to my specs, did an amazing action job, scalloped the recoil shields, installed a power customs free spin pawl, installed an aftermarket steel ejector housing and fitted it to the non-stock shape of the barrel. He was also kind enough to send photos of the process as he did the work to keep me up to date, and charged the very reasonable price of $680 for the work and return shipping. To put that in perspective; I had the idea for this gun long ago, and before finding out about Alan, I'd been shopping around for a pistol smith to do the work for me: Hamilton Bowen quoted me the price of $400 or so for just the barrel work alone.
Just to be clear as to what was included there, I should point out that before sending him the gun, I had swapped the bisley parts for their SBH equivalents and installed the lanyard stud and custom base pin that I made. Also, at my request, he didn't do anything to the finish of the gun aside from bluing the front sight: when I got it back, I polished the last of the bluing off to refinish it, but decided that at least temporarily I liked the look of the bare steel. Over a year later, I still have yet to refinish the gun: I'm thinking I'll do a cold blue on it to give it a medium gray tone and just keep a close, rust preventing eye on it.