Gun stock checkering tools...

[64longstep/Brian]

Do any of you folks by chance have any? I could use some measurements of the cutters… I would like to make my own set…
Brian-

[scottg]

I am looking for some too Brian.
 But I won't be making them.  Many are like a smooth spacer to follow the original line and one or two more little 3/8" long sections of triangular needle file to cut the subsequent grooves.
 I am up for making a lot of kinds of tools, but that is a bit much.  :)

 I have done it by hand a number of times with an ordinary bent riffler though. Can't quite get it as even.
  yours Scott
 

[64longstep/Brian]

I want a set that will fit my big hands. I though I would start learning how to check on knife handles first…

[mrchuck]

Check Brownell's on the web.
I have doe my own checkering on my own rifles.
Too much for me. Must be a God-given gift.
 Also check out Midway USA. Great place.

[ray]

I worked with a guy that ground some 3 cornered files to do checkering

Ray

[64longstep/Brian]

I have jewelers files I could use, but that’s not what I ‘m looking fore. I want to make a set of cress check tool that fit my big hands…

[RLT]

Brownell's gunsmith guide used to have the instructions for building your own.

I haven't done any work in that area for years so i'm not sure what's in the current editions.

[64longstep/Brian]

Brownell's gunsmith guide used to have the instructions for building your own.

I haven't done any work in that area for years so i'm not sure what's in the current editions.

Thank you I will have to check that out...
Brian-

[Ken W.]

I have a Brownell's Dem-Bart Starters Special checkering kit. 18 lines per inch model if your interested.

[64longstep/Brian]

I have a Brownell's Dem-Bart Starters Special checkering kit. 18 lines per inch model if your interested.

I would appreciate if you could take some measurements of the cutters for me, I want to make a set that fit my big hands…

[lauver]

64,

Is it just the handle or the entire tool that is too small for you hands?  If it's just the handles, you could simply replace the handles with whatever works for ya.

Just a thought...

[64longstep/Brian]

The handles are too small. The thing is I want to make them from scratch…

[Ken W.]

The handles on these are not that large.I don't have the biggest hands.The handles are just about 4" long , .950 " and the end and 5/8" wide at the tip where the tool is inserted into the handle.

[scottg]

So, hows it going Brian? Any good clues or pictures yet?
 Handles, well I have made handles in every size and shape for decades. Any different handle pattern can always be made.
I once pulled a piece of firewood right off the floor on its way into the stove and carved a handle in 20 minutes flat!
You'd like it too, its not tiny!
  http://wkfinetools.com/contrib/pScott/art/oldHandles/oldHandles1.asp

Its the cutters and who made their own cutters? I'd like to make some too if you get clues, please share. The standard cutter sets are too expensive for me.
  But I still want some 
 yours Scott

[Papaw]

Great tutorial, Scott!