I heard good things about Santurri, so I went there. Had him thread an AK barrel and do a pin+weld on another AK.
On the pin and weld job, he drilled through the barrel... gobbed it up with weld bead and passed it off to me as if there was no problem. A few mags later I noticed the weld bead fell out of the brake... and I could see clean through to the rifling. He made it right, AFTER being called out... VERY dishonest, since it's not like you can accidentally drill through the barrel and not notice.
Had him thread a barrel on an AK. Threads were very shallow, and stripped. For some reason (I'm assuming to hide bad work...) he installed the brake on my pre-ban AK after threading it with RED permanant loctite AND a crush washer...
Expensive F-ups, I'm not going there again. Seriously, I'm like wtf... 2 absolute screw up jobs in a row for me.
I've had decent experience with Old Glory Guns and Ammo in Greenville, NH for AR pin and welds. They re-did the threading on one of my AKs but went too far on the lathe (notice the front sight base)
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(Santurri's handiwork ^)
Old Glory (below)
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