Gun kit building video

[Dale Halterman]

A friend of mine is about to start on a kit from Wayne Dunlap, and he doesn't think it comes with instructions. I was thinking of suggesting that he buy the video that Jim Chambers sells to go with his kits. Does this sound like a good idea? I am not familiar with Jim's video, but it seems it should be OK to use with one of Wayne's kits.

Thanks

Dale H

[Bill of the 45th]

Chamber's videos are good, also American pioneer has good ones as well, and they can be rented.  While they ae good, I would get  Peter Alexander's The gunsmith of Grenville County, and Dixon's book on building.  In my opinion they're mandatory reading before starting a first build.  Dunlap's kit, like most others is just a collection of parts, in a rough style, that requires a lot of research, collecting of photo's, reading, and viewing of video, as well as joining a good site, like maybe this one .

That said have your friend dive in, and have a try at it.

Bill

[DTCoffin]

I have built a few scratch built rifles and they came out ok.I recently got a Chambers IH and decided to get the dvd with Ron Ehlert,I found it to be helpful and informative with a few neat tricks of the trade.As a  first time project I would say you couldnt go wrong.I'm guessing that the Dunlap kit wouldn't be a whole differant .If I remember correctly the biggest differance is the Dunlap kit didn't have a sideplate included.Hershals Video's are good if scratch building ,but don't get too depressed watching them,he makes it look so easy