Following the highly acclaimed Gunsmith Kinks? and Gunsmith Kinks? II, this latest book -- Gunsmith Kinks? III - presents 778 brand new shop tips, cures to problems, drawings, parts suggestions, jigs and fixtures, jokes, stories, cartoons, pictures and other amazing stuff that appeared in Brownells? ?Newsletter? during the ten years since Gunsmith Kinks? II was published. Also incorporated are some brand-new, unpublished Kinks? from the files, to pack even more into this fascinating new book. Every Kink? is shop-developed and written in the words of the men who did the work, with credit given to each contributor, acknowledging and thanking the guys who so generously shared their often best- kept shop secrets.Some highlights include: 80 pages of instructions and suggestions on bluing, plating, and Parkerizing. Over 400 new listings of ?Private Label? guns cross-referenced to their original manufacturer?s counterparts. Next, 85 pages (and over 150 Kinks?), of cures and fixes for specific guns, organized by type of gun and alphabetized. Then, 50+ pages of clever, timesaving shop/bench ideas. Finally, all Bob B.?s sage comments and advice with which he traditionally began each ?Newsletter.?In addition, the indexes of Gunsmith Kinks? and Gunsmith Kinks? II are cross-indexed into the index of Gunsmith Kinks? III. By looking up a subject in Gunsmith Kinks? III?s index, all the information in all three books is immediately available. A tremendous bonus!No one individual, no matter how clever or successful, could possibly come up with all of these extraordinarily helpful bits of wisdom. With the accumulated collection of knowledge in Gunsmith Kinks? III, the reader gets the best of the best, the cream of the crop, and the newest, handiest, doggondest storehouse of information yet. And all of it specifically selected to be useful, practical and beneficial in gunsmithing or gun-tinkering!

Continuing the proud tradition of Gunsmith Kinks®, Gunsmith Kinks® II, and Gunsmith Kinks® III, this newest member of the family - Gunsmith Kinks® 4 - presents 569 brand new gunsmith kinks to help you cure problems in the shop, to bring you new ideas for tools and time-saving fixtures for your gun work, to give you lots of solid and useful suggestions for your business and shop -- and, of course, to bring together all the jokes that have appeared in the Gunsmiths Newsletter since Gunsmith Kinks® III came out back in 1993. As an added plus, weve added many brand new Gunsmith Kinks® and jokes that havent appeared in any Newsletter yet. All are shop proven and written by the people doing the work and, every Kink® has a credit line identifying the author.Included are lots of instructions -- 64 pages in fact -- that walk you through a variety of processes - from Color Case Hardening to applying BakeOn finishes. How-to articles reprinted from Brownells BenchTalk Newsletter and a whole chapter dedicated to advice on proven ways other folks have increased their sales and, therefore, their profits. That same chapter has advice and counsel on subjects ranging from customer service, to making a buck and just about every other aspect of the business. 133 pages feature 167 job-specific Gunsmith Kinks® for handguns, rifles, and shotguns.To make finding all this tremendous new information easy -- for info is of no use unless you can find it -- the new Gunsmith Kinks® 4 is cross-indexed with ALL THREE previous volumes Gunsmith Kinks® , Gunsmith Kinks® II, and Gunsmith Kinks® III. If you look up a subject in Gunsmith Kinks® 4, right beside the entry you can see if there is more information on the same subject in one of the other three volumes, and which page to find it on.The sum total of know-how collected here is truly mind-boggling. You, the reader, get to tap into the job files of the worlds best gunsmiths and take advantage of the hours theyve spent figuring out how to fix the problem thats sitting on your bench!

Here is an assemblage of professional ?know-how,? the likes of which has never before been made available between the covers of one book - or many books. Although highly technical in nature to the point of being the secret art of the professional gunsmithing craft, it is presented in the off-the-cuff manner of friends chewing the fat between themselves in a language anyone can understand and enjoy - and learn new and wondrous procedures in the process.The hundreds and hundreds of kinks are the result of discussions between Bob Brownell and the thousands of gunsmith friends with whom he has corresponded over a period of some 30 years. Every bit of technical information gleaned from this vast storehouse of gunsmithing know-how was squirreled away to be presented as a helping hand to the gunsmith and to those gun lovers who do their own care and repair, building and re-doing...not to mention the serious ?buff? whose thirst for knowledge in this direction is nearly insatiable. Anyone who owns a gun will find this book a delight, a revelation and a life-long friend.The 668 separate titles and their broad subject matter are completely cross-indexed by 1,268 entries. Three hundred and seventeen drawings, photographs and blueprints leave nothing to the imagination. Individual articles and kinks are in the unedited words of each writer, giving the smell, feel and atmosphere of the gunshop...even the jokes he has enjoyed over the years are included to make this truly ?his? book...and after you have read it, ?your? book as well!