[masraum]

I was curious how checkering was added to spoon grips and stocks, so I checked out youtube. I found this video which is really cool. I had assumed that it would be a tedious process requiring a lot of patience, but wow, that's a bit of an understatement.



I don't know that I have the patience for that sort of work.

What made me wonder about this is that I've been watching some woodworking groups on facebook, primarily for hand tools (unplugged woodworking). And I've seen that Chaplin planes had checkered totes which is very cool (love the checkering on spoon grips, and this seems like the perfect place for it).

The interesting thing is that these checkered totes are hard vulcanized rubber, not wood. I think checkered wood totes would be something.


Next thing you know, I'll be looking up metal engraving...