How To Make A Checkering Tool
To make the tool you need a small triangular metal file the smaller the better.
How to make a checkering tool. The tool is used to complete the repetitious bulk of the checkered panels. Some antique English checkering tools. As you do move the stippling tool around inside the panel in a random manner.
Watch as Larry Potterfield Founder and CEO of MidwayUSA makes a checkering tool from a length of dril. Use knife checkering tools including white blue and yellow layout pencils along with two-edge spacer cutters to ensure proper spacing and accuracy. Degree bent shaft V shape chisel for checkering repair.
Once youre finished with that use the single cutter to even things out deepen lines sharpen diamond points etc. Advanced checkering involves using a third checkering tool the w i d e spacing tool to make skip-line checkering google. From there you would use a two edge tool to define the parallel grooves over a panel.
Pencil in a line along the rule edge. You will use this one the most. Hand tools can sometimes do a job faster than setting up a machine.
Like most forms of art practice is essential but in the hands of a trained craftsman. Gunstock Finishing and Checkering Part 1 - TOOLSGunstock carving and checkering requires the use of specialized tools to get the job done. 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.
The V chisel has clear vinyl tubing protecting the cutting end. A four-inch size with as little taper as possible is ideal. Below there is a very fine checkering tool.