About This Book
A practical handbook provides comprehensive, step-by-step instruction for gunsmithing, combining a concise history of firearms with detailed guidance on making and repairing barrels, locks, stocks, and pistols. It catalogues necessary tools, shop layout, and methods for fabricating, tempering, and finishing metal and wood parts, including case-hardening, rifling, browning, and varnishing techniques. Chapters explain disassembly, cleaning, assembly, chambering, and breech work, and present recipes, measurements, and nomenclature for parts. Emphasis is on hands-on procedures, toolmaking, and maintenance to enable both novices and experienced workers to perform safe, accurate gunsmithing tasks.
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