What we do
11 capabilities. All in-house. No outsourcing, no guessing, no waiting on a vendor. Brian's shop does it here — or it doesn't need doing.
Service · 01
Lohman Gunsmith is a certified Cerakote applicator — and the shop that Shilen Barrel Company in Ennis, Texas trusts for their production Cerakote work. Two full-time coaters, a proper spray booth, and cure oven on premises.
Cerakote is not paint. It bonds at the molecular level, delivering resistance to corrosion, chemicals, abrasion, heat, and impact that ordinary finishes can't approach. Available in solid colors, patterns, and custom multi-tone camouflage.
Service · 02
The traditional heat-treatment finish applied to revolvers, shotguns, rifles, and handguns — specifically to restore faded or worn case colors on vintage and antique firearms. Done correctly, this process produces the swirled blue, purple, orange, and straw hues characteristic of pre-war American gunmaking.
Brian's shop performs this process properly — not the spray-on imitation used by shops without the equipment.
Service · 03
The old-world method. Slow rust bluing produces a deep, rich, hand-rubbed finish on steel that factory hot-bluing simply cannot replicate. The process takes days — not minutes — and requires controlled humidity, multiple application cycles, and hours of hand-carding between coats.
Available in three hand-polished finishes: satin, semi-gloss, and high-gloss. Each barrel is polished to the spec before the first coat goes on.
Service · 04
The Tormach 1100M CNC runs the machine shop. Barrel threading for suppressors, slide cuts for red dot optics, RMR pocket cuts, chamber work, relief cuts, lightening cuts, and full custom component manufacturing from raw stock.
This is not a hand-drill shop with a Dremel. The Tormach holds tenths — the kind of tolerance that matters when an optic can't wobble under recoil.
Service · 05
Sit down with Brian. Design your firearm exactly as you want it — caliber, action, furniture, finish, sights, controls. Then he builds it. In the machine shop, the wood shop, and the coating booth. Every part that can be made in-house, gets made in-house.
The YMIR Commander 1911 — over 10 hours of CNC and hand fitment, 12 hours of hand sculpting and polishing, 18 serialized matching components, $8,500 — is what custom means here.
Service · 06
Firearms from the 1800s to present day, brought back to original condition — or period-correct better-than-original. Full disassembly, parts inspection, fabrication of missing or damaged parts in the machine shop, period-correct finishing (bluing, color case hardening, stock refinishing), and documented reassembly.
Service · 07
Not a spray-down and wipe-off. Every component disassembled, cleaned individually, inspected under light, and oiled before reassembly. If something needs replacing, you'll know before it fails in the field — not after.
All cleaning work includes a 30-day labor guarantee. If something we touched fails in 30 days, we make it right.
Service · 08
Houston floods. Harvey, Imelda, Beryl — and the next one after that. Flood-damaged firearms corrode fast, especially in saltwater intrusion. Brian's shop offers full flood recovery: complete strip-down, corrosion treatment, part replacement or fabrication, dehumidification, and refinishing.
Many flood-recovered firearms can be saved — even ones that look hopeless. Bring it in before you decide it's gone.
30-day labor guarantee on every job · Mon–Thu 6:00 AM – 5:00 PM