Tuesday November 27, 2007
Accurate Plating and Weaponry,
Inc.
5229 County Road 99
Newville, Alabama 36353
Dear Friends and
Valued Customers,
If you haven't used our services in the last few years please note our new address.
We have re-established our new facility a little
further upland, in good deer country, and slightly north of the
coastal hurricane belt. Accurate Plating & Weaponry, Inc., opened it's doors in 1977 and is currently in a modern 4,000 sq. ft. facility in Newville, Alabama. For thirty years we operated in Clearwater and Safety Harbor, Florida.
Accurate Plating & Weaponry, Inc. has served
the Firearms Industry as the largest operation of its kind
specializing in all aspects of custom gunsmithing, firearms
refinishing, repairs and custom upgrade refinishing. We do it
all and we do it in house.
There are over 1500 names and companies in
our current database. We have been fortunate to of received over 50
feature magazine articles about our work since the early '80's,
literally on every type of weaponry. It shows the diversification of
our work.
We have maintained the absolute bottom line in our pricing to stay
affordable and competitive. In 2004 we experienced a 17% increase in
operational costs alone for maintaining a business of our stature.
That's not the costs of raw materials which have skyrocketed.
The industrial
base in Florida which worked well for us for years was replaced by the
housing bubble, creating overpriced condos, unaffordable housing and that drove businesses away.
The
building boom has taken every inch of our former county. Taxes skyrocketed,
and insurance all but impossible. The big three just raised
insurance 70-90% one month before hurricane season. Add assessments,
water purification (fluorides and plating don’t mix in this modern day
alchemy) OSHA, and hazardous waste handling, and you see why we
changed our address. It takes a lot to
move 8000 square feet of space and downsize the operation to 4000 feet
but nights of careful planning kept us at full production and we made
it fit. The good news is key employees moved too and we love it
up here.
We provide excellent work, maintain a large parts inventory, offer
good turn around times, and our motto is “all in house”, one stop
shopping. Accurate Plating and Weaponry offers the largest selection of
finishes in the industry. Some ask why? It's simple, some
finishes are better for some applications than others.
Diversification, you get the best for your needs. The
finishes are as diversified as the customers interests are. And
many of our finishes offer more than just protection from the
elements or a new look. Our premier product Hard Chrome is an essential natural friction remover for the
"accurized" firearms we build. It prevents "galling" on some
softer or dissimilar metals.
In Gunsmithing, we began as one of the pioneers of competition-style enhancements
such as compensators. We were one of the first in offering
them on competition guns and then taking that knowledge to
concealed carry pistols and revolvers. And we are a little
different in our approach to smithing,
As an integral part of Accurate, the in-house Cogan Custom Shop
offers Professional Gunsmithing, not mass production assembly
techniques as used on almost all types of firearms. Mass
production sometimes means a larger hammer. We build custom guns
from your existing firearm or parts, and parts we may have or
supply. Again, gunsmithing and finish restoration under one roof,
your gun never leaves our shop.
We don't have to namedrop but we finish firearms for some of the largest manufacturers,
pre-owned gun dealers, many custom gunsmiths and for the general
public. Our customer base is huge, Alpha Precision,
Masaad Ayoob, Jim Clark, Caspian, D&L Sports, Merle
Eddington, Eagle Grips, Phil Hemphill, Frank Garcia, Hogue
Grips, KBI, Kel-Tec Arms, Kahr Arms, Rob Leatham,
Bill Rodgers, Springfield Inc., Roger Sigman,
Jack Ragsdale, JoJo Vidanes, Hank Williams Jr. just to name
a few.
Need a part? We do maintain
a large parts inventory and we are competively priced.
Your patronage over
the past 30 years is deeply appreciated. And we will continue
to offer you the same outstanding AP&W Service and Quality, the only
difference being our address. Our website will be updated
with the information you want and we promise you a more exciting visual look at
the work we are capable of. They
say a picture is worth a thousand words. It may take
longer to download but it will show you our attention to detail.
They will be pictures that don't hide the details.
Something else, we share something in common, our love of country,
support for our troops, and a love of
firearms. These firearms help forge this country, feed this country,
and have defended the freedoms that this country was built on. The management and staff of Accurate Plating and
Weaponry is happy you dropped in.
Robert “Bob” Cogan
President Accurate Plating and Weaponry
NEW! CONTACT US FOR
QUOTES BY PHONE!
Please, If you are interested in
a quote for your firearm, you may call us and speak with Dana, our
office manager, a warm nice human being. Some things are done better
the old fashioned way. Less mistakes too. Email is fine but takes too
long to type out those long answers and the phone is faster. We
think you would rather speak with a human too. No computer voices, no
"press (1) for English, press (2) for Nakhi, press (3) for Burushaski,
and press (4) for Klingon".
Trivia: Nakhi is spoken in Yunnan
province, southern China, by about 140,000 people. Called Moso by the
Chinese, its script represents one of the few pictographic systems
still in use in the 20th century. Burushaski is spoken by a mere
40,000 people living in the mountainous regions of northwestern
Kashmir. It is of special interest to philologists in that it appears
to be completely unrelated to any other language in the area, or for
that matter to any other language of the world. Klingon is spoken only
on Star-Trek and if you didn't know that it's time to stop living in a
cave. Yes we'll still answer the emails, but the phone saves us
both time and money.
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