A Course on Working the .22 Rifle: Renovating Rimfires
by RK Campbell
A very common task facing professionals is the repair of rimfire rifles. The ins and outs of repairing them are best learned with time and study, not a heavy hand and iron will. We’ll show you how to do it right, the first time. (May 2010 issue)

Shop Work: Hammers and Triggers and Sears
by Chick Blood
It’s great to have machines but most of the top pros depend on hand tools in performing their precision custom work. Few gunsmiths are lucky or rich enough to have a precision grinder, lathe and milling/drilling machine set up and ready to go their shop, cellar, or garage, but that shouldn’t stop you! This series guides you in the proper use of readily available, commonly used gunsmithing hand tools for the maintenance, repair and safe modification of customer guns. (July 2010 issue)

Building a “Rust” Cabinet By Leo Radovich
Constructing your own humidity cabinet to blue metal is a first step in learning to apply a decorative and preservative finish to steel parts.  There are a variety of processes, collectively known as “bluing”, which are used to achieve a blue or black finish on gun steel. The process is relatively quick and can be automated, and we’ll take you through the full process step by step. (March 2010 issue)

Obsolete Gun Parts, or How to Keep a Customer’s Perfectly Good Firearm from Becoming a Paper Weight
by Gerry Ritacco
What do you do when you’re faced with a fix that needs an obsolete gun part? AMG gets involved with making some parts for a gun which the manufacturer no longer supports.   (February 2010 issue)

Lathes, Mills, Drills
By Richard MacLean
Unless you have unlimited funds, buying new or used machinery can be a challenge. There are gunsmiths in the far-off Land of Oz who have access to unlimited floor space, three-phase power, high bay entrances and money to buy new Bridgeport vertical mills, South Bend lathes, and Dayton floor drill presses. But for the rest of us who live in the real world, the pitfalls of buying metal working machinery are as numerous as the options.  AMG offers some points to consider when making these big purchases.  (August 2010 issue)