How To Make Checkering Tools

I made a sharp cutter from a piece of scrap steel to re-cut the line around the edge.

How to make checkering tools. Ramelson is one of the only US-based manufacturers of screwdrivers checkering tools and other gunsmithing supplies. Place the point of the stippling tool in the center of the test panel and rapidly tap the head of it with the hammer. Next I make the two master lines within the pattern at a 45 degree angle or thereabouts and they are the starting point of the checkering.

A four-inch size with as little taper as possible is ideal. Like most forms of art practice is essential but in the hands of a trained craftsman. From there you would use a two edge tool to define the parallel grooves over a panel.

Scribe this then use a single line tool to cut a master line. In laying out a design I make a pattern out of heavy paper and draw its outline onto the wood with a sharp pointed tool called a scribe. This can be done over the kitchen gas stove.

The checkering consists of sharply pointed diamonds that give a good grip and the grooves are self cleaning due to their open angle of 90 degrees. In addition to our own line of tools we offer equipment and supplies from industry-leading brands like Grace USA Browning and DEM-BART. Watch as Larry Potterfield Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA makes a checkering tool from a length of dril.

Once thats done its just a matter of moving across the surface one line at a time with the double-head tool. Hand tool use is not eliminated however the time required to finish the job is dramatically reduced. Advanced checkering involves using a third checkering tool the w i d e spacing tool to make skip-line checkering google.

Pencil in a line along the rule edge. The MMC Rotary Tool will quickly produce cut checkering from 16-32 lines per inch. You will use this one the most.