He may have moved his shop but it was in downtown Ashford when I knew him.
Now that I think about it, he was only part time. I think his wife ran the shop during the week as he worked at the nuclear power plant.
Probably not the same smithie then. Perhaps it was his son whom I met in the early nineties. My son took me from Montgomery, North to a gunsmith who was making suppressors for weapons. The suppressor I tested was a ‘grease packed suppressor’.