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I always cringe when I see fine guns with beautiful checkering and finishes leaning up against logs, rocks, trees. I have to get over this.... lovely Steve, just lovely. 
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
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The buttplate's in Angus manure!
On a gopher shoot near Columbus MT last spring, with the owner, my good friend Kurt. That's a few k of Bill Gamradt engraving featuring an ocelot on the near side.
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My compadre' James Tucker sent me these photos and I don't think he will mind if I post them. Hope he chimes in to tell us exactly what's here? this stubby & chubby forend I think is for a mini Farquharson(?!) but it shows well the difficulty checkering a small forend with a bordered wedge plate in the middle. IMO Tucker's checkering is about as good as it gets.  This second forend is still in the checkering cradle and show flat-top checkering done right. That is, with a parallel-sided tool, like a tiny back-saw, not a V- groove tool as used for most checkering. Again, this is very difficult to accomplish, especially as well done as this job!  I'm pretty sure these are the same wedge plates I use.
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Very Nice and I look forward to Mr. Tuckers input on the forum.
MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014
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Man, I LOVE that flat top checkering!
Brent
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Man, I LOVE that flat top checkering!
Brent the most difficult to do acceptably well. Requires specially-hand-made tool(s) as described above and also in Monte Kennedy's Checkering & Carving book. I've successfully done tiny fluers & narrow ribbons of several sizes & shapes plus some mighty tiny and complicated multi-paneled checkering up to 32 LPI but I haven't yet worked up my nerve to do a real flat-top job. The small tight curves and spaces of the conventional checkering on the other beautiful wedge-plate forearms shown here are, IMO, easier to do well than the flat-top style. I can kinda-sorta correct and minimize many initial spacing slipups & errors in conventional V-groove checkering as I gradually deepen & widen the grooves and point up the diamonds, but the flat-top style leaves absolutely no room for any errors of any type. Magnificent work! Regards, Joe
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Hi,
Messrs. Petrov and Hughes gave me a heads-up when this forum was
started. I look in from time to time and have been very impressed. Great forum! Thanks guys for pointing me in the right direction.
Guess I better explain what those pics SDH posted are.
Both forends belong to 'baby' Farquharson's. The first pic is a
.17 HMR and is checkered at 24 LPI. The second pic is of some flat top checkering I did on a rifle that was stocked and engraved by Larry Peters. A take-down with 3 barrels(and forends). 24 or 26 LPI. I don't remember which. The wedge plates and wedge are from the muzzle loader trade as SDH explained. And yes, if you want to do flat top checkering, you have to make your own tools.
James
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Hey, James, good to see you here. Much easier to get together than my usual drive over to your shop! I may have found the .22 for your son - more on that in about a week (after the auction closes).
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