hairygreek
Member
Hey all, would like to recommend Finks Custom Gunsmithing of Paulden AZ.
I sent a FAL to get a crappy Cerakote job blasted off, polished, and refinished with bluing. As of two months ago, I called a number of local smiths and they declined the job due to work volume.
Job was quoted at 4 weeks, it took 8. He said it was because during reblue he kept finding problems. I wasn't in a rush or anything. As soon as work was finished, it shipped back quickly.
While looking at the finished job, I did notice a couple out of the way spots that missed the sand blast. That Cerakote was pretty thick and everywhere on near every part. So I would grade that a 96%. The polishing looks fine, I was expecting a tiny bit shinier (it was 400 grit), but he wasn't stupid creating divots or removing letters/numbers, and it looks consistent across the metal. The blast did show two spots of lazy machining that parkerizing hides, and these were not totally removed, probably to avoid divots. The machining does not detract overall however.
Fink as a person I can tell is God fearing and trustworthy, he extended trust to myself which is rare in business. So I would have no problem trusting him. His rates were cheaper compared to what other local smiths charge, and shipping in AZ was cheaper. Bluing ran $120 and blast/polish was $195 @ $65 per hour.
So I would recommend Finks to anyone else.
(Wood is from member "Flypaper" on falfiles.com)
I sent a FAL to get a crappy Cerakote job blasted off, polished, and refinished with bluing. As of two months ago, I called a number of local smiths and they declined the job due to work volume.
Job was quoted at 4 weeks, it took 8. He said it was because during reblue he kept finding problems. I wasn't in a rush or anything. As soon as work was finished, it shipped back quickly.
While looking at the finished job, I did notice a couple out of the way spots that missed the sand blast. That Cerakote was pretty thick and everywhere on near every part. So I would grade that a 96%. The polishing looks fine, I was expecting a tiny bit shinier (it was 400 grit), but he wasn't stupid creating divots or removing letters/numbers, and it looks consistent across the metal. The blast did show two spots of lazy machining that parkerizing hides, and these were not totally removed, probably to avoid divots. The machining does not detract overall however.
Fink as a person I can tell is God fearing and trustworthy, he extended trust to myself which is rare in business. So I would have no problem trusting him. His rates were cheaper compared to what other local smiths charge, and shipping in AZ was cheaper. Bluing ran $120 and blast/polish was $195 @ $65 per hour.
So I would recommend Finks to anyone else.
(Wood is from member "Flypaper" on falfiles.com)
