How To Make A Checkering Tool
On the right are three antique tools used for checkering.
How to make a checkering tool. Two tools used in the restoration and repair of gun stock checkering. The single-line cutter is used to lay out the pattern and the master lines - and to deepen the checkering to full depth. Advanced checkering involves using a third checkering tool the w i d e spacing tool to make skip-line checkering google.
As you do move the stippling tool around inside the panel in a random manner. I made a sharp cutter from a piece of scrap steel to re-cut the line around the edge. This can be done over the kitchen gas stove.
No reason to reinvent the wheel. Below there is a very fine checkering tool. Use knife checkering tools including white blue and yellow layout pencils along with two-edge spacer cutters to ensure proper spacing and accuracy.
Keep tapping and moving in a random fashion until the surface is uniformly roughened. Degree bent shaft V shape chisel for checkering repair. Hand tools can sometimes do a job faster than setting up a machine.
Hand tool use is not eliminated however the time required to finish the job is dramatically reduced. The next tool is the single-line cutter. Using a mill bastard file to cut teeth.
Scribe this then use a single line tool to cut a master line. Hold the tang with a pair of pliers and heat the forward two inches of the file to a dull red. Once youre finished with that use the single cutter to even things out deepen lines sharpen diamond points etc.
