Table of contents

Introduction	3
Milling machines	4
Equipment and tools	13
Converting the lathe	17
Micrometers and their use	22
Cutting tools and tool holders	26
Lessons in tool making	30
Making a keyway cutter	31
Deep hole drilling	37
Tools for reaming	38
Deep hole drills	40
Drilling the rifle barrel	42
Reaming drilled barrels	44
Building a heat treat furnace	46
Rifle barrel steel	51
Importance of rifling	55
Making rifling buttons	59
Different types of rifling	61
Rifling buttons	63
Making the buttons	67
Rifling cutter	71
Making reamers and barrel reaming	76
Making the chambering reamer	85
Rifling cutter	88
Heat treating tool steel	91
Making an electric heat-treat oven	96
Building a gas heat treat furnace	104
Lathes	108
Barrel vises and changing barrels	115
Threading and fitting	119
Button rifling machine	124
Bench rifling	130
Gun barrel straightening	134
Threading and fitting the barrel	137
Thread facts	141
Thread-cutting tools	143
Thread cutting in a lathe	146
Taps and threading	152
Relining barrels	156
Making 22 rf liners	160
Barrel inserts & liners	162
Repairing shotgun barrels	166
Shotgun chokes	169
Case hardening	175
Blacking firearms	179
Buffing and polishing	184
Lea polishing compound	188
Finishing gun stocks	199
Making a gunstock	211
Fitting recoil pads	215
First aid for wood	218
Refinishing wood	223
Etching on metal	230
Addresses	235