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The Do-it-Yourself Gunpowder Cookbook |  | Author: Don McLean
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 114336
Media: Paperback
Pages: 80
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 0873646754
Dewey Decimal Number: 662.26
EAN: 9780873646758
ASIN: 0873646754
Publication Date: July 1, 1992
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Product Description
Learn how to make gunpowder from such items as dead cats, whiskey, your living room ceiling, manure and maple syrup with simple hand tools and techniques that have been used for centuries. This is a practical and safe approach to making the oldest propellant/explosive known. For information purposes only.
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do-it-yourself gunpowder cookbook July 31, 2010
olbuzzard (Illinois)
LOts of good historical info and explanation of use. Not truly a cookbook if one wants to keep all their fingers and other valuable body parts. However, still a good reader written clearly enough to get through to my type hard heads.
Roger, Illinois
 Excellent October 31, 2008
Richard Gregory (Three Rivers, Michigan)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book delivers. It has valuable recipes to make your own black poweder and a sugar related substitute. This book also means it when it say to make everything from scratch. How to make your own charcoal, getting sulfur from unlikely places, and "Growing" a salt peter bed. Its not a thick book by no means but if you someday find yourself in the situation where you need to make all of these components from scratch this is a great book to have.
Just a quick little bit of help. Just because your compost pile is nitre bearing earth your going to be hard pressed to produce salt peter. your better off builiding a nitre bed like the author describes.
 cia tek July 23, 2008
T. Baarnes (sky hige)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
covers mainly the useless cia tek(precipitation tek)
better info free on the nett. make a ball mill and you can make pro gunpowder easy
An ok book... November 3, 2007
David R. Barber (Denver, US)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ok, this book is ok. There are only two different recipes to make is the problem, but I did give it three stars because it has good information and tells you how to get the materials without having to buy them at the store. It also looks like the recipes could take quite a while to make.
Simply Informative and Useful July 20, 2006
Scotty_G (alaska)
39 out of 41 found this review helpful
Iv'e read some drivel that the processes in this book are too hard to follow, or that they take too long to bear fruit. Look, if you don't want to leach out potassium nitrate, go buy it. I won't tell you where I get it, but if your'e making gunpowder you should be resourceful enough to find your own. Charcoal shouldn't be a problem, and you can order large quantities of sulfur for a good price. Also, you can buy all of these items, follow the processes in the book for putting it together, and still pay less for black powder than you would at the store. It's kind of funny, but I had more success with the sugar and rust recipe than with the traditional black powder. The burn rate was absolutely amazing, and the noise from my fence post driver cannon was too. The only reason that the techniques for resting all the ingredients from the earth were included in the book was to give you an idea of how to make powder from the ground up IF YOU HAD TO. You can easily go buy the ingredients, skip to the recipe pages of the book, and make gunpowder. I wouldn't recommend it though, because it's a very interesting book. I'd say the most important part of the book are the safety rules. I can personally attest to the importance of these. Just remember, someday you will accidentally ignite this stuff. It's a fact. So keep your batches small and separated. Also, if your'e making over fifty pounds of it you might consider an explosives manufacturing license.
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