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My friend and employer, Brandon, has a habit of finding weird, old guns and tasking my coworkers and I with restoring them to firing condition. The latest of our adventures was an 1896 Bergmann No. 3, a now-obscure model of one of the earliest semi automatic handguns. There’s quite a big incen …

The stock denial plate on my VZ-61 semi auto receivers is done as a legal protection.Once you have a legal pathway to adding a stock onto your receiver, here's how to remove the plate.This receiver is a random one off the shelf and is not fully finished. Please excuse any blemishes.Figure 1: Th …

Boss man got an MG08/15 and my friend Nik and I were tasked with getting it running.We started with Turkish aluminum belts, but they don't work at all in our gun. It's theorized the Turks have a special feed block, but not much is known.I hunted around for weeks and finally got a Vickers cloth belt. …

Lately, I've been asked several times to put KP9 firing pins into production. I have no desire to do so, especially with the horrendous QC of the KP9 bolts and the amount of inspection that is required to ensure the out of battery safety is functional.However, I spent a while today making a drawing …

For a long time I've wanted to make a database of drawings, blueprints, and models for the AK family of rifles.It seems there's no clean way to host a library on my website here, so please enjoy this Dropbox link: Dropbox Google Drive …

In today's AK building scene, 5.56 Kalashnikovs are more popular than ever. While certainly not an invention of mine, the practice of making a 5.56 AK by using a Galil bolt and bullet guide, in an otherwise 7.62x39 kit, is becoming more and more common and is something I have tinkered with quite ext …