[guncrank]

I went to TSJC andgraduated in 1984. I have owned my own shop every since.
I can do stuff now that I couldn't do then and less time. Experence is a great teacher.
But I have also worked as a toolmaker/machinist all this timeas well.

Clark is not just a "Internet expert" if he is the same Clark that has been posting in other forums over the years. Don't agree with him about 90% time.
So Poster who graduated in Nov 09 just thought you should know.

To OP if you can't go to a school or get a apprenenceship
then DO NOT waste your money on mail order programs. Buy AGI and as many books as you can. Don't worry about "old school " ways it an'it the technique that makes a hack smith but the workmanship.

Gunsmith schools are like a appretenship they give the knowledge to start and hopefully the enough smarts not to do something you can't do or need to turndown. The schools don't make a smith, youmake the smith.
Guns are semi precision machines but just remeber that gun is owned by somebody else not you. Take ashort cut and you loose a client. Heck done that and been there.
Hope thishelps
CEW