How To Use Checkering Tools
You will BASICALLY be re cutting your pattern.
How to use checkering tools. You must know the LINES PER INCH of your current pattern. A checkering cradle is a tool that is used to hold your stock in position while you checker it. If you have areas with the checkering completely missing due to wear wood damage or wood repair use a straightedge and sharp pencil to complete the missing lines.
Again cut a border along the line you have drawn. A single-line cutter is indispensable. Like most forms of art practice is essential but in the hands of a trained craftsman this job is done in a most efficient manner and of course leads to much greater profit margins.
A single-line cutter a two-line cutter a left-to-right guide cutter a right-to-left guide cutter a finishing cutter and a short cutter for tight corners. Checkering. For the folks more oriented to machines the use of the Dremel is an alternative.
Brush away dust frequently. Next is the two-line cutter used to lay out the next line to be cut and to keep it parallel to your master line. Like most forms of art practice is essential but in the hands of a trained craftsman this job is done in a most efficient manner and of course leads to much greater profit margins.
Use knife checkering tools including white blue and yellow layout pencils along with two-edge spacer cutters to ensure proper spacing and accuracy. You will need a single line cutter for the borders. The single-line cutter is used to lay out the pattern and the master lines - and to deepen the checkering to full depth.
The lower tool steel is a special tool for cutting borders mullered borders. The next tool is the single-line cutter. Flints.
