For many years now Westley Richards has run a gunmaking apprenticeship program, one which we were able to scale up once we moved to our new premises in 2008. Every year since we have started (and intend to continue to start) 2 new young people on this 5 year programme to becoming a skilled craftsman in our trade.
Westley Richards runs possibly the only remaining true gunmaking apprenticeships in the country, here we do not teach how to assemble a box of finely machined parts but rather the time honoured skills of the craftsman wishing to build the finest guns and rifles available.
As we enter a new year we now have a further 2 positions to be filled in our apprenticeship program and invite applications for these positions. Here you will join a team of young, enthusiastic and determined craftsmen aiming to build simply better and better guns.
For full details please send a CV and cover letter stating your interest to apprentice@westleyrichards.co.uk
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Simon Clode on June 29, 2016 at 5:55 pm
Please contact our offices if you are interested. They will provide full details.
Simon
Simon Clode on October 21, 2015 at 6:40 am
Clayton. We take apprentices on in order to keep our benches filled with skilled workers. We would not invest our time and efforts in a person who we knew was going to be leaving shortly, that is more the role of a school such as the gunmaking school in Liege. The difference is that we pay our apprentices on a rising scale as they gain skills and invest skilled workers time to teach them.
I think the skills you will learn as an armourer in the forces will give you a solid grounding and then you can consider what you do with those skills once you are out.
Clayton TaBelle on October 21, 2015 at 2:11 am
I am a 17 year old male that is very interested in firearms, the history and the creation/ maintenance of firearms. I plan on joining the military and becoming a small weapons repair. And i was wondering if i should prepare my self for when I retire to get into the world of firearms. I really want to get to a point of creating my own firearms.
Simon Clode on October 17, 2015 at 5:35 pm
If you google gunmaking apprenticeship we come up on the first page 3 times so it is a shame you have taken 3 years ‘to stumble across us’!
Simon
Tom Cheetham on October 17, 2015 at 9:35 pm
you’re right, you do, however i’ve been googling gunsmithing apprenticeships, not gunmaking…