Table of contents

Introduction	
Equipment and tools
Converting the lathe
Micrometers and their use	
Lessons in tool making
Deep hole drilling	
Tools for reaming	
Deep hole drills	
Drilling the rifle barrel	
Reaming drilled barrels	
Building a heat treat furnace	
Rifle barrel steel	
Importance of rifling	
Making rifling buttons	
Rifling buttons	
Making the buttons	
Rifling cutter	
The tool grinder	
Making reamers and barrel reaming	
Heat treating the reamer	
Making the chambering reamer	
Rifling cutter	
Heat treating tool steel	
Heat-treatment of tool steel	
Barrel turning	
Threading and fitting	
Fitting the barrel to the action	
Button rifling machine	
Bench rifling	
Gun barrel straightening	
Threading and fitting the barrel	
Chambering the barrel	
Thread facts	
Thread-cutting tools	
Thread cutting in a lathe	
Taps and threading	
Relining barrels	
Making 22 rf liners	
Barrel inserts & liners	
Repairing shotgun barrels	
Shotgun chokes	
Blacking firearms	
Buffing and polishing	
Post wheels and flexible polishing:	
Grinding and polishing equipment