Basic and advanced pattern development, and finishing. Fire maintenance, billet preparation, steel combination and tooling. Sword styles and tooling for long blades. Emphasis on hand tools. Knap out prismatic blades, prepare handles using only stone tools.
Bind blades to handles with rawhide lacing and natural pitch resin.
Wayne Bernauer has been actively involved in Gunsmithing since 1977. He successfully owned and operated his own gunsmithing shop for 6 years and has been a full time Gunsmithing instructor for 16 years with Montgomery Community College. Bowen Classic Arms Corp. The company specializes in caliber conversions and fabricating and fitting 5 and 6 shot cylinders to Ruger single and double action revolvers. Hamilton is a past president and winner of the American Pistolsmiths Guild Pistolsmith of the Year. Errett Callahan Ph.D. has a Ph.D. in anthropology, and an honorary Ph.D. in archeology from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.