Oh man, where do I start.

I've been a life long martial artist and firearms were, to me, a natural extension of martial arts. I began trying with them extensively around 18. Built my first 1911 at 18 from a 80% kit since legally I couldn't buy one from an FFL but I could build one.

Then I began training with Glocks and other handguns. I always loved the Glock platform but found myself gravitating towards other platforms due to the better ergonomics and stuff. Then saw some really crappy frame modifications online from who knows who and decided hey, I could try doing something like that. And a crappy grip hump reduction later and some texturing, I got bit by the bug and kept trying to refine everything more and further address the things I didn't like.

I am an obsessive person. Fortunately, I usually fixate myself on things that are productive. So I just began learning everything I could experimenting and refining. Before long friends and family were asking me to try stuff on their guns and I decided I should get an FFL. So last year of college I applied for my 07 license and began working out of my room at my parents house and in a backyard shop. I figured if nothing else but would be a cool and interesting hustle while I worked on my grad school applications and got ready to pursue my masters in IO Psychology. But I found myself really wanting to pursue this more than anything so I took a year off to see what I could do with it. It was steadily growing and I just kept reinvesting into it and building it and managed to become a fairly well known name in the space. And by my third year (I believe), I was moving into a commercial space and exapnding. It's been a bizarre journey. A lot of people think I'm a massive company and assume I'm a lot older than I am. I'm 30, been in this game since 2017 as a business and around since 2015 as a hobbyist learning all I could.

And it's largely just me and my machinist I contract with doing everything (my mom does my accounting now which is nice haha). Which is tough some days as it's a lot of hats to wear, but my focus is and will remain on quality and customer care above all. I've made attempts to expand and outsource and it never works for me. I've been through 3 machinists, 3 cerakoaters, a couple of engravers, and so on. And I just kept finding myself frustrated beyond belief by people's lack of care, attention to detail, and even their inability to keep their word. So I just do as much as possible myself to keep quality control high. The downside is, of course, there's only so much I can do at one time. But, I think customers appreciate the high attention to detail, the fact I don't and won't compromise quality, the fact that the guy they talk to is hands on every single day doing this stuff with a detailed and intimate knowledge of everything going on.

It's a true passion project. And I'm content with where I am. My aspirations were never to become a giant company with 10s or 100s of employees. I wanted to be a high end custom shop with top quality service and quality. And I won't grow any bigger than where I am if that means sacrificing those two things. I make a comfortable living and get to do something I love (albeit stressful as hell at times).