How To Make A Checkering Tool
The single-line cutter is used to lay out the pattern and the master lines - and to deepen the checkering to full depth.
How to make a checkering tool. You will use this one the most. Some antique English checkering tools. Watch as Larry Potterfield Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA makes a checkering tool from a length of dril.
Hand checkering is a simple process requiring just a few simple tools. As you do move the stippling tool around inside the panel in a random manner. We Gunsmiths use a checkering file from Brownells.
Secure the stock in a checkering cradle so its held securely and both hands are free. The uppermost wood with pin is a sort of scriber that was used to mark the edges of the checkering so they run parallel with the barrel channel top line of the stock. The tool is used to complete the repetitious bulk of the checkered panels.
The V chisel has clear vinyl tubing protecting the cutting end. One a small sharp knife for detail clean up and the other a delicate 60. This can be done over the kitchen gas stove.
Like most forms of art practice is essential but in the hands of a trained craftsman. Two tools used in the restoration and repair of gun stock checkering. Degree bent shaft V shape chisel for checkering repair.
A four-inch size with as little taper as possible is ideal. Below there is a very fine checkering tool. Keep tapping and moving in a random fashion until the surface is uniformly roughened.