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Does anyone know where to buy checkering tools ( in Canada)? I want to do some checkering on a few rifles and can't seem to find any. I know that Midway USA has them but won't sell to Canada. I'm also looking for engraving tools.
If anyone can help it would be great.
Thanks Gerard
 
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Checkering tools

I was just involved with the collectors show in Saskatoon and one of the regular exhibitors was there and he sells blanks and a fairly good assortment of checkering tools and yes he is Canadian his name is Robert Wilson , His ph # is (306)656-2159 in Harris Sk. He may or may not answer his phone but will return mesages . If you want his email p/m me and I will see if I can find it for you !
 
Lee Valley also has some sets that are priced not too bad, and blanks if you want to file your own pattern. They also some decent micro chisels from Japan that are nice for doing custom patterns in wood.
 
I can sell you a set that I haven't used in a while - I have to warn you that it takes an extreme amount of patience. Actually, about two tools is all you need to learn that it does not make wages.

As a beginning lesson, take a three corner file and bend the tip of it so that one corner is on the outside of the bend. Warm it with a torch to aid bending and quench to harden when you are done. Find an old pressed pattern .22 and cut it to real checkering or an old checkered stock that needs sharpening up and use the three corner file to rework the old pattern to look like new. This is about as rewarding as it gets. It would easily take four hours - maybe twice that to do the pistol grip. Doing a complete rifle may take me an eternity - give or take five minutes.
 
I get all my checkering tools from Brownells in the US, never had a prblem with delivery. All the above is good advice, patience is very necessary, then technique - the most difficult is keeping the cutters at right angles to the wood while on the curve of a stock & keeping the lines straight on a curve. Good eye-sight and lighting (i like natural sunlight) helps a lot. Practice on old stocks / anything slightly round and away you go, we all had to start some where, getting a good tutorial would be valuable to someone just starting. --- John 303.
 
Engrqaving on wood or steel? Engraving steel takes different tools than carving wood uses. Checkering tools appear at gun shows occaionally.
 
I am sure just about any local gunshop can order them in for you, that is how I bought most of mine, and they aren't all that expensive.
 
Brownells has all kinds of them. I was just looking thru their master catalog tonight. If you ever order anything I would recommend that you get the big catalog too. It has like 500 pages and just about every gunsmithing tool you could ever think of, and it's usually free when you place an order but you have to ask for it.
 
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