HB-9 updated text (PDF) - Corbin Bullet Swaging

Swaging is so simple you can do it correctly after just a couple of
tries. Then you’ll see it’s also extremely versatile and powerful: you can
do one more thing, and then one more after that, and soon you will have
the whole top of your loading bench covered with one-of-a-kind bullets,
some of which no one in the world has ever made before. That’s why it
takes at least seven more books to make a dent in the vast array of things
you might do, could do, if you wished. Only your imagination limits the
possibilities.
A deeper study of the specifics of bullet swaging technique and tooling,
including products made by people other than Corbin, can be found
in the book “Re-Discover Swaging”, so named because swaging was, in
fact, discovered once before and then almost lost: during the period of
1948-1963 there were many die-makers who produced swaging equipment,
but none of them offered a comprehensive enough range of products
to insure their own survival, or that of the swaging arts.
Corbin Manufacturing was the first comprehensive effort to preserve
and further the technology with information, supplies and tools from one
source. Whereas other die-makers tended to be secretive and often died
with their secrets of bullet making, Corbin began publishing information
that would help advance the field, from our beginning days.
Bullet swaging, by the way, is pronounced “SWAY-JING” and rhymes
with “paging”. There is a blacksmith technique for pounding hot metal
around a form that is called “swedging” but it is a different sort of thing
altogether.
If you want to really dig into the subject and learn things most people
never discover, then order the Book Package. You get another copy of this
book free, with it. Give this copy to a friend. Who knows: maybe between
the two of you, a new bullet making business may develop that rivals the
fame of some of our other clients? It could happen: it has happened over
400 times so far!
Warning! While the majority of handloaders say that they enjoy
reading the additional side trips that clutter my books, some have complained
that I don’t get “to the point” and just tell them 1-2-3 how to
make a bullet. I agree that this would be a good idea, if only I had some
way to know exactly which bullet they wanted to make.
You see, every bullet can be described with a step-by-step, cookbook
approach, but there are tens of thousands of different styles and shapes
you can make, and not all of them are made the same way! The same
bullet may be made in slightly different ways with different presses and
the dies which fit them.
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