What lover of fine brew doesn’t eventually play around with brewing their own beer ? Once you hang around breweries and develop a taste...

Pattern welded Damascus for knife making is made from two types of material forge welded together. Using high heat and fluxed with borax...

Bread with visual appeal

I won’t go into detail about this rifle, except to say that there’s quite a few of them on the surplus market today. Most of them are in...

There’s all sorts of newer gee whiz gun oils on the market these days. To me, one is about as good as another, based on my usage...

Modern guns are pretty awesome. What’s not to like ? With modern smokeless powders and non corrosive primers, you can shoot your favorite...

I like to turkey hunt with my old Colt 10 gauge double. It ’s the perfect thing for Fall gobblers in Maine. But it’s truly difficult to...

For this summer’s hiking season, I decided I wanted a slightly different approach to backpacking. I opted for something different. I’ve...

I start off with stiff paper and design the holster. I can wrap this around the gun itself to see how it will fit, and I can make changes...

To go along with my new bows, I needed some arrows as well. I start off with Port Orford cedar ballasters for staircases from the local...

This outlines the shaping and finishing of the traditional recurve glass backed hunting bow I made. A copperhead snakeskin pattern...

In a previous blog, I showed how I did a glue up of a bow in a homemade bow over. It is a simple wooden box that has a heat lamp wired...

I’ve always wanted a nice handmade hunting bow, but I could never afford one. So I bought an instructional book and started work on it. I...

A customer had an unusual request. He had seen a picture of the Lichtenberg burning process and wanted to see if it could be replicated...

I start off with a piece of round bar stock that I keep on hand. Square bar stock is fine too. Doesn't matter because I'm practically a...

Although I didn’t have anyone to operate the camera when I cast my first gun part, I did have someone handy to film the first test run of...

In an earlier blog series, I outlined how I built a foundry furnace and cast a replacement hammer for a broken antique shotgun. This is...

Unfortunately for this part of casting I was alone. I didn’t have anyone present to operate the camera while I was pouring the part. But...

This may seem to be an oversimplification, but I built a small wooden cart to roll around the furnace outside where I’d be casting my gun...

This is NOT a a step by step tutorial for building your blower, but to show you how I did it and what worked for me. I started off with...