Anyone have any recommendations for anyone local that does porting/optic cuts and cerakote?
Local to where?
Anywhere in Jersey pretty much . Would even take a drive into PA
I have heard good things about Tier 1 Defense in Randolph.
Savage Arms in Spotswood does it. I have no experience with them other then browsing the store, but the seem to be decent guys.
Here’s how to find them all:
https://www.cerakote.com/find-applicator
Tier 1 Defense is now the RTSP Custom Shop.
Based on the muzzle brake install they botched, I wouldn’t trust them with anything more complicated, personally.
I sent mine out to Jagerwerks and am damn happy with it, but their turnaround times are slow.
Saw this earlier, meant to chime in:
Tier 1 (Mike Fiesta) did a great custom cerakote job on a .22lr pistol for me like…~7 years ago when he was his own shop in the Mountainside/Union area. They were also BIG in precision/long distance rifles around that time, don’t know if they still are.
The shop did a lot of moves and I have heard a lot of complaints in the time since then - my take (my opinion only) is they took on more business than they could efficiently handle and a lot of people got the short end of that stick.
If I was looking for cerakote work currently I’d consider them, but I’d do some research first to see if they’re managing their business better lately.