HERMAN BIX wrote:The checkering tools I had in my other life were like thread files, different profiles designed to place very fine diamond raised grip surfaces on wooden rifle stocks. The classic stock style was 'Monte Carlo' with a well defined palm swell and ornate checkering in usually a walnut stock.
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What can I say Herman... I'm older than dirt....so a million years passes quite quicklyCan say in a million years I never thought to use them to recreate tread plate on a German combat vehicle !!
...with that said...after staring at what HL provides...thought there was nothing better made to recreate the pattern...the only uncertain thing was using the tool on plastic...
...it did very well on the test run...similar to working on hard woods ...and the result ( in my mind anyway) is much nicer than the "modern" style of diamond plate available in sheets...not to mention this doesn't "float"...like the plastistrct stuff does 
ALPHA
