When I was a kid, my Uncle Chuck had a pachinko machine that I thoroughly enjoyed playing. I knew I always wanted one for myself, but I’d never had the opportunity to buy one.

Some years later, while in college, I was walking around an antique store in Petersburg, VA, when a beat up Nishijin machine appeared before my eyes. I will never forget bringing it home to have my dad (a mechanical engineer) tell me “Good luck, I don’t think you’ll ever get that thing working.” I spent at least a good hour staring at the back of it, completely perplexed by the complicated mechanisms on the rear of the machine.

In between studying for school at JMU and drinking the occasional beer (sarcasm definitely implied), I researched all there was to know about that particular Nishijin Model B “Ducks” pachinko machine.

After a few months of working on it, the machine rang its first jackpot, and it was music to my ears. I was proud of fixing it and I was hooked. Such an amazing mechanical masterpiece brought back to life in a college dorm room. It wasn’t long after this that I bought my second machine, then a third, a fourth and a fifth. I’m now the proud owner of seven pachinko machines.

Flash forward another eight years, and I’ve restored more than 50 different machines. I have taken great pride in every one of those projects, and it brings me immense joy to see the client’s reaction to a restored machine.

There are no corners cut when you drop your machine off to me. I treat it as one of my own, and I strive for perfection. I go to great lengths to make sure what you get back is cleaner and better looking than what you dropped off.

I hope I’ve given some sense of the person behind all of these restorations. I look forward to meeting and working with you!