Custom Reverse Flow BBQ Smokers · Ennis, Texas

No Hot Spots.
Just Even Heat.

Hand-built Reverse Flow smokers out of Ennis, Texas since 2003 — patio units to full competition and catering trailers, tested and seasoned before they ever leave the shop.

Built To Order · Est. 2003
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The Shop

Built By Chad.
Since 2003.

Chadwick "Chad" Johnson founded Johnson Custom Smokers in Ennis, Texas in 2003, building a full lineup of backyard, competition and catering smokers — all on the same Reverse Flow concept, from the smallest tailgate rig up to gooseneck catering trailers.

Every smoker is tested and seasoned before it leaves the shop and guaranteed to perform at competition-level cooking. Want your name, logo or initials mounted on the build? That's free — just ask.

Pitmaster presenting a whole smoked brisket half

The Engineering

The Reverse Flow
Concept.

A removable, adjustable tube directs heat from the firebox to the far end of the main chamber. From there it travels back across the cooking racks toward stacks set at grate level — so every rack cooks at the same temperature, not just the one closest to the fire.

Normal offsets run hot on one end and cold on the other. A Johnson smoker doesn't — and once it's dialed in, it needs no adjusting.

FIREBOX MAIN COOKING CHAMBER HEAT IN FULL LENGTH ACROSS THE RACKS STACK

Built Heavy

What's Under
The Steel.

Every unit, from a tailgate smoker to a competition trailer, gets the same build standard.

Bark-crusted smoked brisket sliced on a tray

Reverse Flow, Every Build

No hot spots, no cold corners — the same even-heat engineering on every size we build.

Built To OrderCustom Spec
Offset smoker with visible smoke and meat on the grates

Steel Up To ½" Thick

Spring-handle firebox vents, counter-weighted sealed doors, dual stacks for heat control.

Built To OrderCustom Spec
Texas plains at dusk with cattle drive dust

Patio To Catering Rig

Small tailgate units up to gooseneck catering and competition trailers, custom to your order.

Built To OrderCustom Spec

Cut Clean.
Built Heavy.

Every chamber starts as raw steel pipe stock, cut and shaped in the Ennis shop. Scroll to watch the cut run — same steel that ends up ½" thick on the firebox.

The Cut

Low.
Slow. Even.

Sliced smoked brisket on a cutting board
Off The Smoker
Gloved hand slicing brisket with dramatic light
The Slice
Bark-crusted smoked brisket slices
The Bark
Smoke rising off the grates
Low & Slow
Detail of hand-fabricated steel work in the Johnson shop

Also From The Shop

Johnson Custom
Gates.

The same shop that welds the smokers also runs Johnson Custom Gates — metal art fabrication built alongside the BBQ line: furniture, entrance gates, fireplace screens, signs, clocks and wall-hanging metal art.

If it's steel and it needs to be exact, it's the same hands building it either way.

“All of our smokers are tested and seasoned before they leave the shop — guaranteed to perform at competition-level cooking.”
— Johnson Custom Smokers, on every build

Get In Touch

Ennis,
Texas.

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Johnson Custom Smokers

Ennis, Texas

Phone: 972-921-0123 Email: remingtonchadwick@hotmail.com

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You're Cooking For.

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Custom builds shipped nationwide.