I have it on good authority from reliable sources that the components listed below are the only processes which are outsourced by the factory in the manufacture of Rohrbaugh pistols, such being done because they do not have the equipment to do it themselves and it would be too much, at this time, to gear up to do it “in house”. (By the way, this is a common practice within the firearms industry, so Rohrbaugh is not the only manufacturing company doing such things via an occasional outside vendor.)
The items which they send out for different treatments are as follows:
Anodizing of the frames;
Heat treating of the slides, barrels, and some small detail components;
Grip screws;
Magazines; (Checkmate)
Grips; (Neil Hogue)
All Springs (Walt Wolff);
Parts of recoil sub-assembly (such as the end cap, rod and sleeve)
Otherwise, all Rohrbaugh pistols are manufactured and deburred by hand, then hand finished and assembled entirely in-house using CNC machining from solid hand-selected billets of aluminum and stainless steel. They are then hand fitted and tested by one of the Rohrbaugh brothers before leaving the factory. Anything that has been printed on the Internet to indicate anything different than what has been described here is totally false and possibly malicious towards Rohrbaugh Firearms Corp.
