How To Make A Checkering Tool
Place the point of the stippling tool in the center of the test panel and rapidly tap the head of it with the hammer.
How to make a checkering tool. Video taken with a Sony HDR CX100. Hand checkering is a simple process requiring just a few simple tools. Once thats done its just a matter of moving across the surface one line at a time with the double-head tool.
Degree bent shaft V shape chisel for checkering repair. Using a mill bastard file to cut teeth. 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. One a small sharp knife for detail clean up and the other a delicate 60. Like most forms of art practice is essential but in the hands of a trained craftsman.
Dont try to evenly space your stipple marks. To make the tool you need a small triangular metal file the smaller the better. The tool is used to complete the repetitious bulk of the checkered panels.
Advanced checkering involves using a third checkering tool the w i d e spacing tool to make skip-line checkering google. No reason to reinvent the wheel. Some antique English checkering tools.
Pencil in a line along the rule edge. The V chisel has clear vinyl tubing protecting the cutting end. Secure the stock in a checkering cradle so its held securely and both hands are free.