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  • (Paperback, 1993). (1883) 1993 paperback facsimile edition. 8vo paperback (138 x 216mm). Ppxv,9-376. B/w line illustrations. Stains and soiling to cover and lower corner of pages, else good, solidly intact, second-hand paperback. "The Gunmaker's Manual is designed to furnish in convenient form such information as shall be of most use in the actual every-day work of the shop, and for such demands or emergencies as are liable to challenge the knowledge or skill of the workman. .No pains have been spared to make every detail full, explicit and reliable, and it is believed that any intelligent man will find but little trouble in understanding and successfully applying the instructions." The numerous chapters include: History of the gun; How guns are made; Guns now in use; Pistols now in use; On general gunsmithing; Taking apart, cleaning and putting guns together; Tools required for work, their cost, etc. ; Tools, etc., and how to make them; the work bench; On working in iron; On working in steel; On working in silver, coppe and brass; On working in wood; On gun stocks; On gun barrels; On work on gun barrels; Tools for breeching guns; Tools for chambering breech loading barrels; On gun ribs; On thimbles; On rifling guns; On gun locks; On fitting gun hammers; On nipples or cones; On springs; On rods; On bullet moulds; Screw making tools; Nomenclature; On browning; Recipes for browning; Miscellaneous - shellac, concealing bad places places in wood, alcohol lamps, making small springs, making small drills, soldering, preventing glimmering, broken plunger nipples, removing rusted screws etc., describing lines on bright surfaces; On powder and shot; Miscellaneous recipes - soft soldering, brasing, hard soldering, alloy for adhering to iron or steel, gun oil, gunsmith's glue; On judging the quality of guns; On using the rifle; On using the shot gun; On using the pistol; Vocabularies; Calibres of guns, rifling, twist of rifling, etc; Directions for taking apart and assembling specific types of girearm - Ballard, Burgess, Burnside's, Evans, Hotchkiss repeater, Kennedy, Howard's 'Thunderbolt', Martin, Maynard, Peabody Martini, Phoenix, Remington, Remington Magazine gun, Remington No.3, Sharp's; US muzzle-loading rifle and musket; Springfield; Whitney; Winchester; Billings; Fox; Lefevre; Parker double-barreled shotgun; Remington double-barreled shotgun; Roper four-shooting shot gun and rifle. .