"The Announcement"

Monday, November 10, 2008 Filed in: What's New!

As many of you know, my waiting list has been closed to new work for about a year. This has allowed me to concentrate on my tremendous backlog, and progress has been made. Today I'm opening my waiting list for limited number of new clients!

I have 75 openings on the new list; once those 75 slots are full, I'll again close the list until (probably) this time next year. I anticipate to start calling for the first of these guns sometime around late Summer of '09.

(If you already have a gun on the list, DO NOT resubmit!)

To get on the list, email your name, a daytime phone number, the gun you'd like to send, and a brief description of the work to be done. Understand that you won't get an immediate response; with a large number of emails coming in all at once, you can expect a couple days delay. You must email to get on the list - phone reservations are not accepted.

When the list fills, I'll announce the closure here on the blog, and in the main site.

Now for the bad news: I am no longer be accepting reservations for work on Dan Wesson revolvers. This is not an easy decision; I'm a huge fan of DWs, and believe them to be a superior design in many respects. I own them, carry them, and shoot them regularly, so I'm particularly saddened to take them out of the lineup. It's necessary, though, if I'm to properly service the majority of my clients who don't own them.

Why? Simple: the quality of the DW guns is so variable that the amount of time I spend making them "right" results in big bottlenecks in my workflow. The harsh reality is that they often display worse fitting and quality than many Taurus guns (and you probably already know how I feel about those.) If the rest of my work is to get out on a timely basis, something has to give - and DW is that something.

If you have a DW on the list now, I'll of course honor my agreement to work on it. Once those examples currently on the list are finished, that's it for Dan Wessons.

 -=[ Grant ]=-

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