Been interested in gunsmithing for a while now, but still don't actually know much about it. Where should I start?
Books? Equipment? Recommendations?
Starting Gunsmithing
Cameron Williams
Caleb Howard
Prepare yourself to buy a lot of very expensive tools.
Noah Ramirez
Sonoran desert institute and anvil videos
Josiah Sanders
There are schools for it. HOWEVER, most gunsmiths only end up doing stuff like assembling AR's for people too dumb to follow a youtube video, cleaning guns for the same kind of dumbass, recrowning old rifles, drilling/tapping receivers for scope mounts and making chamber casts of old guns.
If you want to actually make guns from scratch, you want to go into Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and/or Machining (CNC in particular).
Jayden Baker
SDI is a pile of shit, and you're better off watching YouTube videos.
Cameron Martinez
best answer so far
Ayden Cox
This.
I wanted to get into gunsmithing so I chose the CNC trade. I’m making almost 4 times the money I made 2 years ago, and I can confidently say I could make a decent sten. Legally of course.
Joshua Brown
This or just build parts kits in your garage
Henry Martinez
I wouldn't get into it for the money.
Ayden Harris
>but still don't actually know much about it
from what I understand gunsmiths are like real estate agents, its easy enough to train for but the problem is getting customers
people that make a successful career of gunsmithing have some way to get customers, ie. retired football coach who knows 10,000 people, or some police sargent who can use his job history etc
Joseph Rodriguez
books, videos, or a training program or something like that
Anthony Collins
well, how about setting up shop in bongistan? it's a considerably smaller market but (at least from my perspective), one that'll allow a lot of competition.
Kevin Cooper
and on the number of licensed dealers
Brandon Thomas
any idea on where to find a receiver for one of those?
Adrian Morales
>getting into an industry that is rapidly being automated
>making your hobby your job
Isaiah Hall
If you can torrent or buy the American Gunsmithing Institute vids they're very good for understanding the mechanics and internals the vids are a bit dated video quality wise.
Henry Ross
If you’re in it for the money, don’t.
Nolan Johnson
Id imagine that would be alot more difficult as a new gunsmith. If I were a wealthy fellow with a very expensive gun that needed repair id go to an experienced gunsmith.
Hudson Powell
Link to original document?
Brayden Smith
Watch this video. It's an hour long but it's truly fascinating and inspirational. If you are interested in gunsmithing, you will love this. It makes me nostalgic for a whiter America that I didn't get to grow up in.
Daniel James
That video is dangerously comfy.
I must have watched it a dozen times by now.
This one is really good, too:
youtube.com
RIP, old Remington.
Xavier Nelson
Definitely this. Its like if you wanted to go into fucking blacksmithing, you'd get a metellurgy degree and learn smith as a hobby. You get a better understanding of how and why things work.
Henry Hughes
take a machining course
Hudson Brooks
Danke
Jonathan Phillips
I'm mainly considering it as a hobby. I'm interested in both weapons and mechanical systems. My grandpa worked in a bike shop and my dad assembled his own motorbike when he was 18. While perhaps a bit on the wishful thinking side, I'm hoping for an early retirement from a programming/software developer position, after which I'm considering taking up gunsmithing.