Custom Knife Making
By Tim McCreight

Custom Knife Making By Tim McCreight contains ten complete start-to-finish knife-making projects that together constitute a survey of more useful knife-making skills than the normal person will ever need.

Learn how to cut out knife patterns from steel, shape the blade, heat-treat and temper the blade, and finally polish and finish anything from a simple kitchen paring knife to hand-forged camp and hunting knife. There are also details and illustrated instructions for making your own custom skinning and caping knives plus there is even an easy-to-make but entirely functional pocket knife.

Custom Knife making provides complete instructions on every step of knife making in an easy to understand step-by-step fashion for every step of the knife-making process. There are tempering, soldering, and fitting details available in this book that you will find in no other references written for the beginner.

If you have ever dreamed of making your own custom knife, this is the book for you. This is a soft-cover book with 222 pages and lavishly illustrated with detailed drawings and photos.

The Complete Book of Tanning Skins and Furs
By James Churchill

The Complete Book of Tanning Skins and Furs contains everything you need to know to start making soft leather and dressed furs from the skins of animals, large and small, that you have harvested on your bowhunting forays into the bush.

In addition to discussing the curing and tanning processes for all types of skins, beginning with those of small animals before moving on to the larger ones, The Complete Book of Tanning Skins and Furs covers in detail all the tools and equipment needed for each. Most of the tools you will need you can make yourself, and the author gives detailed instructions for each.

Whether you are a newcomer to tanning or an experienced old hand, this book is an invaluable guide to the age-old art of curing and tanning skins and hides. Follow the instructions and you will soon be turning out beautifully finished leather and fur projects. This is a hardcover with 197 pages, illustrated with drawings and photos.

Antler, Bone, Horn and Hide
By Monte Burch

Imagine skinning your next stag with a great-looking knife that you made yourself, striding back home in your sturdy leather moccasins-that you make yourself, and turning on your antler lamp-that you make yourself!

Anyone who enjoys working with his hands will find lots to like in this fully illustrated guide to creating custom knives, clothing, tools, weapons, furniture, and accessories out of antlers, horns, leather, pelts, feathers and other natural by-products of a successful hunt. In this clear, conversational style, outdoors man Mont Burch takes you step-by-step through the entire process of forming horns and antlers into knife handles, fireplace tools, doors, lamps, buttons, belt buckles and other decorative items. He also shows you how to fashion bones into projectile points for arrows, spears, and harpoons and how to fashion a cracker powder horn from an ordinary cow's horn.

With Monte's detailed instructions, you can turn leather and pelts into clothing, footwear, belts, rugs, robes and wall hangings. Re-enactors will learn how to construct authentic native headgear out of buckskin and feathers. You'll find complete directions for each item, along with tips and techniques for choosing and using tools, adding paint, bead work, feathers and other decorations to your work, making unique jewelry and much more.

Antler, Bone, Horn and Hide has hundreds of easy-to-understand illustrations and photographs that take the guesswork out of fashioning your own useful items from the game animals you bag. Hardcover with 192 pages ,lavishly illustrated with drawings, charts and hundreds of photos.

Do-It-Yourself Gun Repair
by Edward A. Matunas

Now you can learn to diagnose and repair a wide variety of hunting firearms in the convenience of your home workshop–and save yourself some dosh too. Worn or broken parts? Less-than-perfect accuracy? A crack in your stock? No worries mate! With the detailed information and clear, step-by-step illustrations in this authoritative guide, you'll learn to identify and correct common problems quickly, easily and safely.

Find out what tools you'll need, how to set up your work area, which supplies to keep on hand, how to make basic and advanced gun repairs and more. You'll also find instructions for the disassembly, repair and assembly of seven of the most popular firearms–the Remington 700, 1100 and 870; Winchester 94; Savage 110 and Marlin 336 and Model 70. However, most of this information can be applied to many other guns with similar actions. Each entry is lavishly illustrated with photos, drawings, exploded views, a parts list and more. If you're a hunter or shooter who wants to keep your rifle, shotgun or handgun in top working order, make space for this book on your library shelf.

Edward A. Matunas has been shooting, hunting, and involved with guns since he was a young boy. He was a practicing gunsmith for twelve years, a director of a ballistics laboratory, a designer of reloading tools, and a national sales manager for Winchester-Western. He is currently a freelance writer having penned hundreds of articles and four books.

Hardcover, 240 pages, Illustrated with 211 black and white photos, 41 illustrations, and 11 charts.