Hello from Charlottesville!
- ParagonDefense
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Hello from Charlottesville!
Hello all,
My name's Cyril. I'm 23 years old, and live in Charlottesville. I attended UVA to study mechanical engineering for a while but ducked out after deciding to start up a business here. After a while working with automation controls and fabrication I got more and more into machining and materials.
I've been building up a respectable size machine shop for the past two years, and instead of going the automation tooling route with my business, I got my 07 FFL this past year. I'm working towards doing a number of different caliber AK and AR builds by the end of this year, along with getting in-house CNC fabrication and and barrel turning going. Retail operation just started a week ago, so I'll have lots more info to share in the near future.
Hope to see some of you around!
My name's Cyril. I'm 23 years old, and live in Charlottesville. I attended UVA to study mechanical engineering for a while but ducked out after deciding to start up a business here. After a while working with automation controls and fabrication I got more and more into machining and materials.
I've been building up a respectable size machine shop for the past two years, and instead of going the automation tooling route with my business, I got my 07 FFL this past year. I'm working towards doing a number of different caliber AK and AR builds by the end of this year, along with getting in-house CNC fabrication and and barrel turning going. Retail operation just started a week ago, so I'll have lots more info to share in the near future.
Hope to see some of you around!
Cyril Gropen
Paragon Defense Industries
110 Goodman St. Ste. E
Charlottesville, VA 22902
800.899.7047 (phone/fax)
Paragon Defense Industries
110 Goodman St. Ste. E
Charlottesville, VA 22902
800.899.7047 (phone/fax)
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Re: Hello from Charlottesville!
Welcome to VGOF, Cyril



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- cigarmanva
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Re: Hello from Charlottesville!
welcome from another guy in cville. where's your shop, i'd love to stop by
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Re: Hello from Charlottesville!
It's at the end of Goodman St, a block and a half over from Spudnuts and the Belmont bridge. Pretty much right next to the railroad tracks. I have a suite in one of two big pink buildings right at the end there. A bit hard to miss.cigarmanva wrote:welcome from another guy in cville. where's your shop, i'd love to stop by
I'm doing $30 transfers and have a decent amount of AR and AK parts and furniture, a couple 1911's, and hopefully alot more stuff coming. Still getting the retail area painted and organized, but the ball is rolling.
Cyril Gropen
Paragon Defense Industries
110 Goodman St. Ste. E
Charlottesville, VA 22902
800.899.7047 (phone/fax)
Paragon Defense Industries
110 Goodman St. Ste. E
Charlottesville, VA 22902
800.899.7047 (phone/fax)
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Re: Hello from Charlottesville!
awesome, let me know when you're up and running i'll swing by and say hiParagonDefense wrote:It's at the end of Goodman St, a block and a half over from Spudnuts and the Belmont bridge. Pretty much right next to the railroad tracks. I have a suite in one of two big pink buildings right at the end there. A bit hard to miss.cigarmanva wrote:welcome from another guy in cville. where's your shop, i'd love to stop by
I'm doing $30 transfers and have a decent amount of AR and AK parts and furniture, a couple 1911's, and hopefully alot more stuff coming. Still getting the retail area painted and organized, but the ball is rolling.
III%
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