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The Screwdriver Problem Nobody Talks About
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The Trade Is Demonstrably Contracting: Here Is Why and What May Come Next
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Seth G Cohen, Esq
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Adapt or Disappear
The generalist model is dying. The trade is not. What separates the shops that will survive from the ones that will not.
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The Bench Editorial
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If You Don't Understand the Load Path, Don't Touch the Lockwork
Forty years on American single-shots has taught Joe Seeley one thing above everything else: the damage is almost never i...
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Joe Seeley
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Risk Management for Gunsmiths
With a background spanning tax (civil and criminal) and corporate law, firearm appraisal, and bench-earned gunsmithing,...
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Seth Cohen
Diagnostics
The 75-Year Ghost: Why Antique Diagnostics Defy Modern Shop Standards
A Rast-Gasser came in with a broken hammer. What I found inside told a different story entirely.
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Rich Denny
Craft
What You Send Me Is What I Have to Work With
Metal prep is not a finishing detail. It is the foundation of every engraving job, and most gunsmiths do not know the st...
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Yves Halliburton
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