"The business was near Greenville sc. PM me for the business name if you are local and want to avoid this guy. I'm not wanting to turn this into a slander type situation."
I live in Taylors, SC, a stone's throw from Greenville, SC. I seriously would like to discuss your experience with this guy, I may very well have been bitten by the same guy. I brought a like-new Thompson 1927A1 to him to fix the barrel because the original one came loose after a couple hundred rounds thru it. After he had it for 3 weeks, he tells me he's going to need to replace the barrel because he cannot break loose the Cutts Compensator to tighten it. He had "special ordered" the barrel and a new Cutts Compensator. When I came to pick it up, I noticed vise marks all over the ribs of the new barrel. I commented on them and he said 'that's the way it came from the factory.' I asked to take the old barrel that was on the weapon and the same vise marks were on the old barrel. Mind you, these marks were deep enough to make the metal shavings stick out and poke you. I made him file them down and blue them on the spot. To this day, it still pisses me off, because the bad work still shows on my weapon. I came so close to calling him a liar.
Furthermore, He took two and a half months to complete the job. The reason it took him so long to get my weapon finished is because all the gun shows and events that I went to and/or participated in, he was there too. He is definitely more interested in making his presence known out in public than being in his workshop doing what he's bad at. I have no problem outing him, his name is Larry Smith of Larry's Gun Repair LLC, 403 Miller Rd. Ste C, Greenville, SC 29607. Seriously, I will never darken his doormat ever again.