There just aren't many well endowed institutions that are going to have an interest in custom gunsmiths, even peripherally. The ones that are interested are organizations like ASSRA and cannot be really considered a reliable, long term repository. I would even be worried about University collections suffering a politically correct purge of such information. I suspect that, for all its faults, the NRA comes the closest to fulfilling your requirments. In the meantime publish and share as much as you can. The more widely disseminted the knowledge the more likely it is to survive.

Jerry Liles

Jerry Liles