Gunsmithing & Blacksmithing Books
This catalog page lists books for gunsmithing and blacksmithing.
These books cover gunsmithing procedures and history, and many are tutorial in design and usage.
Includes gunsmithing coverage for rifles, shotguns, pistols, revolvers, and black powder guns.
Every hunter, gun collector, or shooting enthusiast has a gun that he wishes he could repair or just tune up, whether it's the ugly old piece that still shoots straight, or that special gun that can't hit a thing.
These books will expand any hunter's or shooter's knowledge of gunsmithing. They were written to provide gunsmithing techniques, gunsmithing instructions and tips, insight and ideas that will give the amateur gunsmith
the confidence and skill to work successfully on his own guns.
No matter what you use your guns for, being able to competently work on your own guns adds an important dimension to your hunting, gun collecting, or target shooting experience.
The blacksmithing books are for those beginners learning how to "Catch the Fire", work the forge, and swing the hammer, as well as for the experience blacksmith and metal workers.
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Blacksmithing Books and Reports
- Professional Smithing: Traditional Techniques for Decorative Ironwork, Whitesmithing, Hardware, Toolmaking, and Locksmithing
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- -Donald Streeter / Paperback 144 pages / Published April 1995
This excellent manual is written by a recognized professional smith, with over 50 years experience, and whose work appears in hundreds of restorations throughout the country. Traditional smithing techniques are presented in clear, step-by-step text and photographs, enabling the reader to produce high-quality, hand-forged small iron work. Including detailed descriptions of work space layout, specialized tools and techniques, whitesmithing, toolmaking, and locksmithing. The author demonstrates special emphasis on the crafting of early high-quality, handforged kitchen utensils, fireplace tools, locks, keys, and decorative ironware. Including hinges, hasps, latches, bolts, hooks, springs, and more. Students and professional blacksmiths will find this manual of great practical value, as will collectors of early American ironwork, owners of colonial houses, historians, preservationists, restorationists, and anyone interested in knowing how these early products were made.
Includes 257 illustrations.
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- Guerrilla Gunsmithing: Quick And Dirty Methods For Fixing Firearms In Desperate Times
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- -Ragnar Benson / Paperback 160 pages / Published January 2002
There may come a time when government restrictions severely limit not only access to firearms but the tools and means to
repair and maintain them, or you may someday find yourself in the boondocks with a busted weapon. That's where the
guerrilla gunsmith comes in. The author has had experience fixing "junk" guns in some tough places around the world, and
here he shares some innovative ways to patch up, cobble together and otherwise make operational everything from antique
rifles still found in remote war zones to modern firearms suffering from appalling abuse.
Covers instructions on how to employ last-resort but effective techniques to remove hopelessly stuck rounds and other
barrel obstructions, straighten bent barrels, replace lost parts, smooth out dented magazines, make repairs to some
pretty hopeless stocks, scrounge up workable ammo and more. These are last-ditch, do-it-yourself methods, but they may
be all you'll have to fall back on deep in the bush or with your back to the wall, when the only things between you and
the enemy are a rifle and the know-how to make it work.
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- Gunsmithing Shotguns: The Complete Guide to Care and Repair
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- -Dave Henderson / Hardcover 256 pages / Published December 2003
The guide book is considered by many to be the ultimate guide to maintaining and repairing shotguns. In clear and understandable terms,
Henderson explains everything from setting up the small gunsmithing shop to building special purpose guns. It an overview designed to
provide insight, instructions, ideas and techniques that will give the amateur gunsmith the confidence and skill to work on his own guns.
Covers shotgun types and maintenance procedures, general trouble shooting, repairing common and difficult problems, gunstocks and woodworking,
soldering, brazing, metal polishing, blueing and plating, trigger work and adjustment, scope mounting, and recoil reduction tips. And more.
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- Gunsmithing: Rifles
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- -Patrick Sweeney / Paperback 349 pages / Published October 1999
This book provides expert guidance on rifle repair and improving performance. Sweeney shows rifle shooters the ins and outs of do-it-yourself repair and provides tips on improving accuracy and reducing recoil for hunters and target shooters.
Provides rifle owners with many clear photographs that clearly illustrate each step of each project, and providing expert instructions to complete each gunsmithing project while avoiding the pitfalls. From wood refinishing and metal blueing to smoothing a rough trigger pull, Sweeney guides readers every step of the way.
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- Gun Digest Book of Riflesmithing
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- -Jack Mitchell / Paperback 256 pages / Published September 1993
Work on your rifles with confidence. This book provides expert coverage on dissecting the most precise details of locking systems, adjusting triggers, safeties, barrel rifling/crowning, bedding, bolt jeweling, installing scope mounts and sling swivels, metallic rifle sights, working over gunstocks, and much more.
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- Gun Digest Book of Firearms Assembly/Disassembly: Automatic Pistols
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- -J. B. Wood / Paperback 592 pages / Published October 1999
This new and greatly expanded edition contains detailed, carefully illustrated step-by-step procedures to disassemble and reassemble 71 of the most interesting semiautomatic pistols in the world plus comprehensive listings of many similar models to which the same instructions apply.
Each pistol covered was selected after consultation with Brownell's, Inc., the world's largest provider of gunsmithing products and services. Clear photographs and text describe step-by-step instructions to disassemble and reassemble for field stripping (for routine cleaning) or detail stripping (for extensive cleaning or maintenance) the pistols.
Every handgun collector and recreational shooter will find this book invaluable when it comes to maintaining and repairing the most sought-after autoloading pistols.
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Foxfire 5 : Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintlock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living
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- -Eliot Wigginton (Editor)/ Paperback 511 pages / Published May 1979
Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintlock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living
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- Shotguns - Their History and Development
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- -Major Hugh B. C. Pollard / Paperback 152 Pages / Published January 2005
This important work, which is part of Shooting Series - Guns & Gunmaking, on the Shotgun was first published in London 1923 in limited numbers,
and is now a rare find in its first edition.
READ COUNTRY BOOKS have now re-published it from the original text incorporating the photographic illustrations and many fascinating
gun makers advertisements. One hundred and fifty five pages are divided into eight detailed chapters:
- The History of the Shotgun.
- The Selection of a Gun.
- Game Guns, Wildfowl Guns, and Small Bores.
- Repeating, Automatic and Miscellaneous Guns.
- The Shotgun Cartridge.
- Ballistics.
- The Gun-Room, Accessories and Dress, etc.
- Shooting. Etc.
Also included is a 12 page appendix on Shotgun Data and Tables. The contents are interspersed with numerous vintage photographs and
other illustrations of shotguns and equipment. The author was a well known sportsman whose many years of practical experience with
guns and their usage have made this book a valuable contribution to the history of shotguns, and also a recommended addition to
any shooting enthusiasts library. Many of the earliest sporting books, particularly those dating back to the 1800s, are now
extremely scarce and very expensive. Read County Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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- Complete Modern Blacksmith
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- -Alexander G. Weygers, Peter Partch
A truly unusual and unique resource, this extremely hands-on book brings together popular but long-out-of-print classics (The Modern Blacksmith, The Recycling, Use, and Repair of Tools, and The Making of Tools), essential for anyone interested in the making, repair, maintenance, or arcana of tools. An essential volume in any serious craftsman's library, this book covers setting up a smithy (anvil, forge, hammer, tongs, and all), and manufacturing everything from stonecarving chisels to decorative wallhooks.
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