Your Full Service Gunsmith

Welcome to the Gunshop

Double H Gunsmithing is a family-owned and operated business serving the upper southeast with general and specialized gunsmithing services. Located on the family farm in rural Caswell County, Double H is a scenic drive from Virginia and North Carolina communities. Offering a wide range of services, the gun enthusiast community has a knowledgeable and friendly solution for their gunsmithing needs.

Starting with just a Clausing lathe, Bridgeport mill, and a set of bluing tanks in an old tobacco barn, the business has grown in equipment and square footage over the years. The first customers were friends and neighbors, but soon grew to be folks from Maryland to South Carolina. With hardly any advertising, the business has grown from a hobby to a reputable and professional business.

Where Our Customers Come From

Double H serves customers from nearby Carolina and Virginia towns and from farther across the country. Each pin marks a city where we have done work for a customer.

The shop in Blanch, NC is marked with a brass pin. Customer cities use the maroon pins.

Lead Times

Whenever possible, work is completed on a first in, first out basis. Your gun’s position in our work queue is secured once we receive the gun and necessary parts in hand. While you are welcome to call ahead, your gun must be physically present at our shop in order to hold its place in line. We do not take schedule reservations without the firearm present.

As of September 1, 2025, we offer two tiers of expedited service: Priority and Lightning. Approximate lead times are as follows. Availability and queue length can change; please call or text for the current picture. For wood refinishing, a roughly three-week return requires Lightning service; Priority wood is a longer window than that.

Priority Service (faster)

Priority service means that your job will be placed near the front of the line and will be scheduled as soon as any overdue and in-progress jobs are completed. Assuming all the parts we need are on hand or available to order, you will typically receive your gun back in two weeks or less for general service, or two months or less for restoration work. Priority completion is generally fast enough for nearly all customers.

Lightning Service (fastest)

Our Lightning service is intended for customers for whom money is no object and who would like the work completed as fast as humanly possible. Any parts needed will be ordered using Next Day Air, and no effort will be made to reduce materials expense by grouping multiple jobs together. If we cannot get the part by ordering online, we will make it from scratch or drive somewhere that we can buy it. As a result, Lightning service may incur considerable expenses for parts, materials, incidentals, travel, and express shipping. We do not provide estimates for Lightning work, but we may ask for a reasonable deposit if the cost of the work is likely to exceed the market value of the firearm.

Before you come in, please review Visit for what to bring, test fire ammo, loaded-gun rules, and models we do not service.

Prices / Shop Rates

Effective January 2024, our standard shop rates are $60/hr for general troubleshooting and service and $80/hr for man and machine. Minimum shop charge is $60, and firearms transfers are $35.00 for the first firearm and $20.00 per additional firearm listed on the same transfer form (additional fees apply for multiple handgun transfers). In instances where it is not conducive to bill by the hour, we use the Brownell’s Shop Price Survey as a general guide.

To keep things moving along and ensure our prices remain affordable, we are not able to stop our workflow to provide detailed estimates prior to the completion of service. While price estimates are available upon request, we consider them to be broad (“ballpark”) and non-binding. In exchange for your trust, we promise to be as fair and reasonable as possible in billing.

Please bear in mind that all prices listed on our website and in correspondence assume payment by cash or check to reflect our four percent cash discount. As a repair shop, we are required to collect sales tax on all sales, including sales of service (please figure on 6.75% sales tax at the register or when mailing work from in state). Because our out-of-state sales are not generally high enough to establish a Wayfair-decision nexus, sales tax is generally not collected if you mail us work from outside North Carolina.

Ken Barfield: Gunsmith

Ken Barfield is a full-time, professionally trained gunsmith, custom rifle builder, and firearms instructor from Yanceyville, NC. A lifelong gun enthusiast, Ken’s interest in precision rifle shooting was piqued while attending the US Army sniper school in the early 1990s. On May 16, 2003, he earned his Diploma in Gunsmithing from Piedmont Community College in Roxboro, NC. Since then, Ken has gone on to repair, service, or build over 12,000 unique firearms, some of which have been used to win several state championships and even set a national record in 2015. When Ken is not rebarreling a rifle or sending lead downrange, he enjoys rabbit hunting, fishing on Lake Hyco, fixing up his ’86 Ranger, and tending to the family farm.

Between 2011 and 2015, Ken made his mark in NRA F-Class. He is a two-time North Carolina F-Class state champion at 1000 yards (2011 and 2013), a two-time regional champion, and he finished fourth at the fullbore nationals.

Ken is an Army veteran. He was an 11B, Airborne and Air Assault qualified, and left the service as an E-5. He served with the 8th Infantry Division, the 2nd Armored Division, and the 82nd Airborne Division, and he was in Desert Storm.

Ken attends Caswell Bible Fellowship in Blanch, NC.