ACTION BOOKS

This is a good basic book for finishing stocks, stock finishing, refinishing stocks, gunsmithing books, wood refinishing, and has many different types of finish. Covers most of the finishing methods. On the CD, we have also combined The Complete Guide To Wood Finishing with The Finishing of Gun Stocks to make it more complete.

This manual goes through each of the steps on refinishing wood or the stocks. It explains the many different types of sandpaper, its use, and the choice of the correct-type of sandpaper for the job that hand.

The finishing of gunstocks is a book meant to give the reader the basic information that will be necessary to finish or refinish gunstocks. Though this is a basic book, it will give the reader much valuable information on the finishing of wood.

It explains it difference in hardwood such as American black walnut, French Walnut, Maple, Mesquite, Cherry, beech, mahogany, Myrtle wood, and finishing these woods.

It goes through each of the steps on refinishing wood or the stocks. It covers all of the different types of sandpaper, its use, and the choice of the correct-type of sandpaper for the job that hand.

If covers removing the dents from wood, the different methods of filling the dents that are present on the surface of the stocks. It will go through the different methods the finishing stocks such as steel wool and oil, rubbing with sandpaper, sand paper and oil, sandpaper and water, and the disadvantages and advantages of sand paper.

You will learn how to finish with lacquer, linseed oil, varnish, and penetrating resin finishes. Then it goes into the final finishing of the stocks after finish is applied.

A good training manual for beginning machinists. Very easy to use and has a Table Of Contents to each chapter. It will give you information on different machining methods. This is for the crafts person that wants to learn how to operate a lathe, milling machine, or other shop equipment.