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Vic,

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Oh Dear,.....This Chequering subject is going on & on again & again! Monte Kennedy's Checkering & Carving of gunstocks has his explanation of "English Flat-Top Checkering" (Pictured is a c 1930s Holland & Holland. When I was working as a Vocational Training Instructor c1980-1986 for the Veterans Admin.With both WW2 & Viet-Nam Era Disabled Veterans, part of my Stockmaking & Chequering program was Making Chequering Tools.They were made the "Olde English" way, Cutting 2 lines aprox .020", the inside of the tool was 'squared out'(ie Flat-top of the line of wood that was left standing, which was the line I counted for the "Lines per Inch" If I can Have "Older Doc" post a couple of My 'Jobs',It might be of Interest. CC/DT

Getting back to checkering. I spoke to David Trevallian about this business of flat top checkering. He told me that he has a checkering tool from Purdeys,handed down through the ages that cut the two lines on either side of the checker. The tool was made from the metal spines used in umbrella tops,and was purchased from umbrella makers,then cut,bent,and sharpened for use. Hopefully David will get help and post some pictures he has on hand to illustrate all we've been chatting about.
It seems that in all this discussion I didn't realise that flat top checkering could be done as fine as diamond and it made me think that I have not been looking at guns close enough and paying enough attention to the different techniques.
Justin

justin,

David posted just before you.

I watched Paul Hodgins use a similar tool one time when I visited his shop.

Yeah,a day late and a dollar short justin

CC what are your thoughts on the difficulty of executing each style ?

Gallyon's has replied that the serial # sequence this gun (O/U SLE) belongs to is missing. That confirms a provenance letter from Scott's circa 1950 that David T has provided that mentions these records were lost in the war. Am checking with other sources but it appears factory records are gone for this gun, and quite a number of mid-'20s W&C Scott-badged guns as well.

Roy H: my e-mails to you are bouncing back. We may have to do it the old-fashioned way. If there is a Western Union station nearby I will send telegraph. Stop. Watch for In'juns.