Tanaka, Alan

Gunsmith Alan Tanaka has been crafting competition handguns since 1986. With his precision work, quality control, and commitment to customer needs, it is no wonder that top-notch shooters have turned to him for his services.

A target shooter since his late teens, gunsmithing was a natural transition for Tanaka, uniquely melding his precision machinist skills and his knowledge of the intricate workings of firearms with his understanding of a shooter’s needs Alan Tanaka brings more than twenty years experience as a moldmaker/machinist to gunsmithing. As a machinist, he is skilled in milling, lathe work, precision surface grinding, and electrical discharge machining. In his daily work, he routinely deals with specifications calling for tolerances of +/- .0001 (one ten-thousandth) as required by the aerospace and computer industries.