Make Your Own Checkering Tools
We also have all the supplies to make your own custom sheath wallet or other leathercraft from tools and stamps to dyes and conditioners.
Make your own checkering tools. Hold the tang with a pair of pliers and heat the forward two inches of the file to a dull red. Cutting flat-top checkering requires a special tool. Reposition the guide to give the other master line and making sure the resulting diamonds will be parallel with the barrel axis cut that second line.
Watch as Larry Potterfield Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA makes a checkering tool from a length of dril. Its best to start the job with a checkering panel pattern cut from a piece of white paper thinner than copy paper is better so a pattern appropriate for the particular stock undergoing surgery can be chosen - with an eye toward overall size and outlineshape. Gunstock Finishing Carving and Checkering A to Z Part-8 repaired versionIn this video Kurt continues his lesson showing you how to use the Master Lines.
To make the tool you need a small triangular metal file the smaller the better. At about 295 its not cheap but you get what you pay for. Personalize your knives and accessories with leather crafting or scrimshaw work.
Not only do you make your own rifle. Measuring Tools Magnifiers. Flints.
There are many types of hand tools some are for hand checkering only. Brush the wood grain with a fine brush. Lots of ideas on Google.
They have a guide on one side the cutting edge on the other so that you may follow the last line cut for even spacing. This is 100 percent made in the USA by David himself. Since most of this work is done by hand with engraving tools a steady hand and attention to detail are absolutely necessary.