Description
Contents: Chapter 1: The Frontier Gunsmith; Chapter 2: Tooling Up; Chapter 3: Gunsmithing Safety (How To Tip – Unloading the Muzzleloader); Chapter 4: Muzzleloader Locks; Chapter 5: Building Lock Kits (Step-by-step projects – Assembling The Siler Lock Kit & Assembling the Pennsylvania Style Mule Ear Lock); Chapter 6: Lock Tuning (Step-By-Step Project – Tuning A Lock); Chapter 7: Muzzleloader Triggers; Chapter 8: Gunstock Materials; Chapter 9: Stock Finishes and Finishing (Step-By-Step Projects – Finishing A Stock & Refinishing A Stock); Chapter 10: Wood Repairs (How-To Tips – Fixing Large Dents & Epoxy/Fiberglass Repair & Reinforcing With Pins & Replacing Missing Wood & Repairing Broken Stocks & Extending The Forearm & Repairing Cracked Stocks & Stripped Wood Screws); Chapter 11: Wood Embellishment (How-To Tips – Incise Carving & Decorative Inlays) (Step-By-Step Projects – Fitting Wire Inlays & Checkering A Stock & Relief Carving); Chapter 12: Stock Styles; Chapter 13: Muzzleloader Metals (How-To Tips – Heat-Treating Metal Parts); Chapter 14: Blueing And Browning Metals (How-To Tips – Metal Polishing & Browning And Blueing Methods)(Step-By-Step Project – Rust-Browning A Barrel); Chapter 15: Metal Embellishment (How-To Tip – Engraving); Chapter 16: Muzzleloader Barrels; Chapter 17: Barrel Ribs (How-To Tips – Attaching Ribs With Screws – Attaching Ramrod Guides – Attaching Ribs With Solder); Chapter 18: Metal Castings; Chapter 19: Muzzleloader Ramrods (How-To Tips – Making A Wooden Ramrod – Fitting A Ramrod Base Tip – Candy-Striping A Ramrod); Chapter 20: Muzzleloader Sights; Chapter 21: Professional Muzzloader Maintenance (Step-By-Step Projects – Cleaning With Water – Cleaning With Solvent – Cleaning The Revolver – Advanced Cleaning); Chapter 22: Understanding The Modern Muzzleloader (How-To Tips – Fitting A Scope – Adjusting The Striker – Fitting A Sling)(Step-By-Step Projects – Glass-Bedding A Rifle – Fitting A Recoil Pad); Chapter 23: The Muzzleloading Shotgun (How-To Tips – Fixing Barrel Dents – Threading Choke Tubes – Repairing Ribs And Guides – Patterning A Shotgun); Chapter 24: Tuning The Caplock Revolver (Step-By-Step Projects – Correcting Revolver Timing – Improving Trigger Function); Chapter 25: Building The Blackpowder Kit (Step-By-Step Projects – Building Navy Arms Brown Bess Rifle Kit – Building Thompson/Center’s Hawken Rifle Kit – Building Mountain State’s Mountaineer Rifle Kit – Building Traditions’ Deerhunter Rifle Kit – Building Lyman’s Plains Pistol Kit – Building CVA’s Hawken Pistol Kit – Building Navy Arms’ 1860 Army/Reb ’60 Revolver Kit – Building Traditions’ Trapper Pistol Kit – Building Traditions’ Derringer Kit); Chapter 26: The Custom Gun (Step-By-Step Project – Building A Custom Rifle); Manufacturers’ Directory For Blackpowder Gunsmithing
Issue: 1964
Condition: Very Good