Make Your Own Checkering Tools
A beautiful rifle with a great wood grain on the stock to add to the fine finish.
Make your own checkering tools. Watch for a feature on him in a future issue. According to the author of Gunsmith Kinks it is profitable to make your own checkering tools. G-B Lin-Speed Tru Oil Which two products does the author of Gunsmith Kinks advise to use when doing an oil rubbed finish.
Youll have to have a strong aesthetic sensibility. This is 100 percent made in the USA by David himself. Flints.
The ODT fits perfectly in the watch pocket of your jeans so theres no clip to clutter things up. The downside is that most of what you do is going to be abstract spirals leaves and dogs. Cutting flat-top checkering requires a special tool.
A four-inch size with as little taper as possible is ideal. You can make your own ball vise for cheap by cutting a bowling ball in half and mounting a vise to it. Great for beginning knife makers learn how to select the steel forge it quench it and grind it into a usable knife.
Balls Bullets and Blanks. This is a checkering tool kit from Brownells. 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.
Author outdoorsman and blacksmith Bradley Richardson describes the techniques of forging and stock removal and how to achieve great results with simple power tools or hand tools. Thats a 45 ACP in the picture for scale. Then carefully cut that line with your single-cut tool.
