While Tonys book, which was given to me by a forum friend here, is interesting I find it's highest purpose to be mostly an incentive to try gunsmithing tasks I've yet to attempt. Tony was not afraid of making a mistake to learn a new process. IMO Tony did not intend the book to be a step by step guide to doing specific gunsmithing tasks, but rather a chronicle of how he learned to do these things and who he consulted and learned from. It excels at that.
Ed, you should find and read Oscar Gaddy's in depth articles on CCH. It is the finest account of the process I have ever found and, until something is written that equals or exceeds it in usefulness, I will consider it the standard.
Thanks Keith, for the excellent reminder on why it is indeed a chemical process.
