Possible book project

[Mills]

I have used blurb.com for some personal projects and they are good. The advantage there is you don't have to order the copies. The customers order directly from Blurb (and you can mark up the price to get a cut).

[James L. Martin]

Brian, You might also include chapters on other double guns such as Win 21, Fox , etc. Most of us do go over to the dark side for a short while and info on those guns would be nice to have.

[John Taddeo]

As they say "nothing ventured nothing gained" , sounds like it would be a great addition to the gun bench..

[Ronald Moore]

Brian : why not get the Parker Gun Collectors involved, they could sell the books and make a few dollars to boot. I think you could probably sell 300 to 500 easily to our members. Keep the cost as low as you can and you could sell book for under 35.00, no fancy printing and binding. The book would be a useful tool for all of us. People pay 300.00 fpr Parker story and do not even blink.

Ron Moore

[Bill Murphy]

Brian, the spiral catalogs I mentioned are from Conestoga Auctions in Manheim, PA, 2002 and 2005. There is not a publishing company mentioned but you may be able to get information from the auction house. They are 8 1/2X11 inches, glossy pages, card stock glossy covers. One is all black and white and 40 pages, the other is color and about 45 pages, 80 and 90 counting both sides. They are very classy with thick plastic spiral binding.

[Billy Gross]

Brian - I think this a great idea, and I would support the project with an advance sale. The real cost of this effort would be your time. You might want to do a little business plan and project your expenses and revenue to see if it works economically. I second the idea of consulting with Mr Cote', and perhaps getting some money from PGCA. You may also want to enlist some collaborators.

[Researcher]

I was barely out of my teens when I came to the realization that I shouldn't go inside these things!! More than happy to pay those who are qualified to do it for me. Such a book of no interest here.

[Craig Larter]

I agree with Dave. I would much rather pay a craftsman to work on my guns.

[Bill Murphy]

I still buy the books, regardless of whether I will attempt the repairs explained in the book.

[Kensal Rise]

The previous few posts present a worthy point for consideration regarding any such "how to" manual. And it involves human nature.

On one hand, it would seem generous and helpful to provide the novice with a certain level of tuition on the proper disassembly procedures required. Better to "do it right" than make a muck of it is the easy rationale.

On the other hand, it is a well-worn phrase that "just enough knowledge to be dangerous" can indeed be - dangerous. Especially when a garage gunsmith reaches the FUBAR stage on a nice Parker's takedown.

Then the sorry bits must be sent off to some professional to be put right again. If they can be.

Finally, the Parker hammerless is not a boxlock for the neophyte to be learning anything on. It's more like asking a local tech at the Goodyear garage to tune your Ferrari.

Just my opinion.