Kit Ravenshear was born in Surrey, England in 1930. He began working on guns and restored his first firearm, a boxlock pistol, at age 13. As an adult, Kit was a 2nd Lt with the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. He later served as the Weapons Training Officer in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlander Regiment. After discharge, he served as a police officer in Suffolk and returned to Scotland to work as a salesman.
    Throughout this period, he also served as a part time gunsmith until 1962, when he acquired Normans of Framlingham, an old gun business. By 1963, he was admitted into the ranks of Master Gunmaker. Immigrating to Canada in 1971, he settled in Pennsylvannia in 1973. Each booklet is 7” x 8-1/2”, staple bound.
CRAFT & PRACTICE - Part 1 Re-conversion, Screw Threads, Assembling Locks. 24 pages. In this booklet, Kit deals with reconversions of old guns starting with the locks, and buying the parts or hand-tooling them. Kit’s craftsmanship is evident as he discusses in detail, working pans, frizzens, flint cocks and finishing touches of restoring and tuning old locks. The booklet goes on to describe fitting mainsprings and completing the lock assembly.    No. 703633