Photos and Video From the NMLRA Gunsmithing Seminar

Jim and I are at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green this week.  I will be sharing photos and video of it here! The official website for the seminar is http://www.nmlragunsmithingseminar.org/ which is in it's 35th year!

The videos can be found at our YouTube Channel  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK-DUN4pHdQm-yeIDchwuzQ
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Day 3 of Building a Pipe Axe with George Suiter

Above are photos (and below is the description) of the class taught by George Suiter: Building a 1750’s Pipe Ax
Building a pipe ax involves all the same elements as building a long rifle, but takes less time and requires fewer materials. Students will learn to file and polish the head, file decorative moldings, engrave and execute a silver inlay in the head, harden and temper and niter blue the tomahawk head.  For the handle students will drill the hole in the handle, shape and fit the handle and decorate it with wire or sheet metal inlay or other forms of decoration such as incised carving and then stain and finish. Students will leave the class with a finished pipe tomahawk. 

Day 1 of Building a Kibler Mountain Rifle Kit

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