Condition: Good – 527 Pages
Modern Gunsmithing contains all the information one needs to set up a home gunsmithing shop. Numerous pictures and diagrams clarify the subject.
Some of the topics include the following:
- Home Gunsmithing
- The Gun-Crank’s Workshop
- Tooling Up
- Special and Home Made Tools and Equipment
- Materials and Metals Necessary
- First Steps for the Beginner
- General Shop Practice and Use of Tools
- Wood for Gunstocks
- Gunstock Design
- Stockmaking: Laying Out and Inletting
- Stock Making: Shaping and Fitting
- Checkering and Carving
- Finishing and Polishing Stocks
- Repairing and Remodeling Stocks
- Rifle Barrel Design and Fitting by Townsend Whelen
- Chambering and Barrel Work by Townsend Whelen
- Cartridge Design and Manufacture by Townsend Whelen
- Striking and Polishing Barrels
- Bluing and Browning
- Case Hardening
- Soldering, Brazing and Welding
- Manufacture or Substitution fo Small Parts
- Cleaning Bores and Removing Obstructions
- Lapping Barrels and Bore Polishing
- Fitting Sights and Telescopes
- Shotgun Reapirs and Alterations
- Pistols and Revolvers
- Plus Much, Much More!
Printed in 1933 – Second Edition – 527 pages – Hard bound. Condition: Good.
