TR photo of Lana Bradstream – Tim Kelly, owner of Edgeworth Precision, works in a turn while repairing a firearm for a client. Kelly opened the business shortly after moving to Marshalltown and only relied on word of mouth to attract customers.
Tim Kelly, owner of Edgeworth Precision, shows his work of wood on one of the rifles he builds. It operates the construction and repair cases of firearms in a transport house in its backyard.
Sometimes life becomes hectic and people don’t have as much time to do what they like. Tim Kelly has experienced this, but always advances to make her goal of working full time in his armed activity a reality.
When he does not work at Emerson or does not spend time with his family, Kelly, 59, tries to operate Edgeworth Precision. The name of the company is inspired by the name of the house that Kellys bought. After he and his family moved to Marshalltown in 2019 from the southern Dakota, he began to transform a house of climb into a courtyard in Edgeworth, a firing arms construction and repair company.
“For repair work, I do anything, roughly,” said Kelly. “The building, for the most part, is precision rifles and I began to make smoky mouth chargers.”
He refrains from working on AR-15 rifles and fully automatic firearms. Kelly also does not work on 3D printed firearms, also known as “Ghost Guns”.
“If you bring me a gun and work on it, there will be a serial number,” he said. “3D pistols are generally so painful in the buttocks, I don’t even play with them. In addition, the people who buy them want it because they do not want a standard number on it. ”
Kelly has been armed since her diploma with a certificate from Yavapai College in Arizona, but his school experience gave him a network that Kelly can call.
“This friend has gone to military stuff,” he said. “This guy has entered hunting rifle stuff and another has entered pistol stuff. If there is something I can’t understand, I have people I can contact.”
After Kelly graduated with his two -year certificate, he taught the shot for a short period in Yavapai. Some of his students went to different fields of armory, expanding his network.
“I spent about five years there,” he said.
The only type of work that Kelly will not do on a firearm is called “hot ball”. Blue is the art of creating a finish for a gun, which prevents rust and helps keep the oil. The reason for which Kelly does not make hot blue is due to the necessary caustic salt and the damage that salt can make to drain and sewer systems.
With Edgeworth in the backyard and a large part of his time dedicated to machinist work for Emerson and leading his wife to regular meetings, he devotes to what time he can shoot-generally in the middle of the night when temperatures are cooler.
“I joke that I would like to come and work here in rabbit slippers,” said Kelly, laughing. “I don’t have rabbit slippers, but if I did it.”
Ensuring that Edgeworth respects the regulations, he obtained a license as a federal firearm manufacturer (FFL) at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Weapons and Explosives. Kelly mainly relied on word of mouth to draw customers and some of them require personalized actions or handles on firearms. As it also makes woodwork, it is something that it can easily welcome.
“I would love to work full time here,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong, Emerson is a great place to work. It would be good to be able to be here, do what I want to do. I just want people to know that I am here. ”
Commercial information:
Name: Edgeworth Precision
Address: 501 S. 12th St.
Hours: by appointment only
Telephone: 641-750-9233
Website: Facebook
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Contact Lana Bradstream at 641-753-6611 Ext. 210 or
lbradstream@timesrepublican.com.
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TR photo of Lana Bradstream – Tim Kelly, owner of Edgeworth Precision, works in a turn while repairing a firearm for a client. Kelly opened the business shortly after moving to Marshalltown and only relied on word of mouth to attract customers.
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Tim Kelly, owner of Edgeworth Precision, shows his work of wood on one of the rifles he builds. It operates the construction and repair cases of firearms in a transport house in its backyard.
