Both of those guys have good reputations, well-deserved I'm sure, but if I was having work done I would use a guy who I could actually call and speak to. Per TJ's web site, he will not speak to you on the phone unless you send him ten bucks. Then he'll call you back. He states that he answers brief e-mail questions, but I wouldn't want to mail my gun off to somebody who I haven't spoken to. A five minute call can take the place of twenty back-and-forth e-mails.
If you live near TJ, you can drop your gun off directly to him - for an additional fee of $100. The fee is "for my time to see and talk to you and not for the work".
It sounds as though I'm taking the guy to task for his policies. I'm not. He explains his policies and the reasoning behind them on his web site. You can go there and get everything in context:
http://www.tjscustomgunworks.com
He is entitled to have whatever kind of policies he wishes. I don't have a problem with that. I guess I'm cheap: I don't want to send somebody ten bucks for a call-back.
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