Make Your Own Checkering Tools
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.
Make your own checkering tools. Shop top-quality leather and skins including Cape buffalo cowhide ostrich wildebeest and crocodile. One tool seven tips eleven dollars coolAyuda al canal. This is a checkering tool kit from Brownells.
Drills Taps. Watch for a feature on him in a future issue. Watch as Larry Potterfield Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA makes a checkering tool from a length of dril.
I use a short and long tool. Other hand tools are single edged. Thats one key to good checkering.
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. Since most of this work is done by hand with engraving tools a steady hand and attention to detail are absolutely necessary. Screwdrivers Hammers Punches.
To make the tool you need a small triangular metal file the smaller the better. Mark a center line all the way around the blank. Personalize your knives and accessories with leather crafting or scrimshaw work.
Now you can make your own. 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. Cutting flat-top checkering requires a special tool.