Houston, TX · Since 2012 · FFL Licensed

Houston's
Full-Cycle
Gunsmith

Machine shop. Wood shop. Coating booth — all under one roof. Brian Lohman runs the only full-service gunsmith operation in the country where everything gets done in-house.

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90+ Reviews · 145+ Photos · Yelp

3 Federal Firearms Licenses
2012 In the industry since
Cerakote Certified applicator
Shilen Barrel Co. coating partner
30-Day Labor guarantee on all work

The facility

Three shops.
One address.

Full Machine Shop

Tormach 1100M CNC precision machining — barrel threading, slide cuts, RMR cuts, chamber work, and complete custom component fabrication from raw stock.

Tormach 1100M CNC

Wood Shop

Custom gun stock manufacturing and restoration. Exotic wood selection on-site — red wood lace burl, walnut, maple. Hand-fitted from raw lumber to finished stock.

Stocks, grips, restoration

Coating Booth

2 full-time Cerakote specialists. Impact, heat, and corrosion resistance that Shilen Barrel Company trusts for their production line. Solvent-resistant. Mil-spec durable.

2 full-time Cerakote coaters

What we do

11 capabilities.
Zero outsourcing.

Cerakote Finishing

Custom patterns, camouflage, solid colors. Mil-spec corrosion, abrasion, and chemical resistance. We coat for Shilen Barrel Company.

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Color Case Hardening

Traditional heat-treatment finish for revolvers, shotguns, rifles, and handguns. Authentic swirled color restored to period-correct standard.

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Slow Rust Bluing

Hand-polished barrel finishing — satin, semi-gloss, or high-gloss. The old-world method. Takes days, not minutes.

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CNC & Machine Work

Barrel threading, slide cuts, RMR/optic cuts, chamber work, suppressor mounts. Tormach 1100M precision to tenths of a thousandth.

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Custom Builds

Full custom firearms from spec to finish. Sit down with Brian, design it exactly as you want it, and walk out with something nobody else has.

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Firearm Restoration

1800s to present. Vintage firearms brought back to original — or better. Matching parts, period finishes, documented provenance maintained.

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Repairs

Every type of repair on every type of firearm. If it's a gun and it's broken, we fix it — with a 30-day labor guarantee on every job.

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Custom Wood Stocks

Stocks fabricated in-house from your choice of exotic lumber. Hand-inletted, shaped, and finished to fit your action.

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Stock Repair

Cracked stocks, split forends, loose bedding — repaired, re-bedded, refinished. Matching grain and finish on all repairs.

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Gun Cleaning

Full strip-down: every component disassembled, inspected, cleaned, and oiled. Not a patch-and-spray job — a real inspection each time.

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Flood Damage Repair

Houston floods happen. Full corrosion treatment, disassembly, dehumidification, part replacement, and refinishing for flood-affected firearms.

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Don't see your job?

Call us — if it involves a firearm, we probably do it.

Call (832) 849-0009

The operator

Brian Lohman

Holds 3 Federal Firearms Licenses — including a Manufacturing FFL. Former college football coach (8 seasons, Houston). The machine shop, the wood shop, and the coating booth are all his.

3 FFLs including Mfg.
14+ Years in industry
90+ Verified reviews

The story

From the
football field
to the machine shop

Brian came to Houston in the late 1990s as a college football coach. Eight seasons on the sideline — then financial advisory work, founding FPP Advisory in 2001, which he still operates today.

In 2012 he pivoted to firearms, and built something genuinely rare: a single shop that can take a firearm from broken steel to finished, coated, bedded, and ready — without shipping anything out.

Three FFLs. One Manufacturing license. A Tormach CNC he runs himself. Two full-time Cerakote coaters. And a wood shop that fabricates stocks from raw exotic lumber.

"We're the only full service gunsmith shop I know of in the USA that does everything with repairs, builds, and coatings."
— Brian Lohman, Owner

Signature build

Not just repairs.
Original firearms.

Brian Lohman MFG

YMIR Commander
1911

$8,500

Over 10 hours of precision CNC machine work and hand fitment. Then 12 hours of hand sculpting and polishing. 18 serialized matching components. Every part serialized. Every surface finished.

Color case hardening. Bluing. Novak sights with 14-karat gold accents. The YMIR is the argument that Houston has a world-class firearms manufacturer.

Platform Commander 1911
Caliber .45 ACP
Machine hours 10+ hours CNC + hand fitment
Polish hours 12+ hours hand sculpting
Serialized parts 18 matching
Finish Color case hardening + bluing
Sights Novak · 14kt gold accents
YMIR Commander · .45 ACP Brian Lohman MFG · Houston TX
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Verified reviews

90+ reviews.
Real customers.

★★★★★

"Brian, the gunsmith, is very knowledgable and delivered both guns two days quicker than promised. Great shop, fair pricing, and he actually explains the work — not just a receipt and a handshake."

Brandon · Verified Customer
★★★★★

"Had an old shotgun flood-damaged after Harvey. Brian's team stripped it completely, treated the corrosion, and refinished it in Cerakote. Looks better than new. Couldn't believe the turnaround."

Michael T. · Yelp · Houston
★★★★★

"Brought in my carry Glock for a slide cut and RMR mount. Clean work, tight tolerances, no slop in the optic. These guys have real machining capability — not just a hand grinder and a drill press."

D. Harrington · Yelp · Houston

Houston's most
capable gunsmith.

Open Monday–Thursday · 6:00 AM – 5:00 PM · 11875 W Little York, Suite 701

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