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  1. 06-22-2017, 04:40 PM #1
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    Checkering cradles

    Well, I've checkered enough kindling to see maw though the next winter and am about to engage an rifle stock.

    I'm planning to build a checkering cradle, I've some stock plans, but thought I would put the general question out to the old pros- any one willing to take a photo of their cradle and tell me what you love about it, what you like about it, and what you might have done differently?

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  2. 06-22-2017, 05:57 PM #2
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    The best checkering cradle I ever saw was in someone else's shop.......
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  3. 06-24-2017, 07:36 AM #3
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    google "checkering cradle images" you'll see a lot of examples. not much advise but lots of ideas
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  4. 06-24-2017, 08:33 AM #4
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    A checkering cradle I saw years ago, made from a piece of pipe and connecting rods from a motor.
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  5. 06-27-2017, 11:55 PM #5
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    I made mine from the plans in Monty Kennedy's book, Checkering & Carving of Gunstocks. It works as well as any other I have seen. If I were to make another I would consider assembling it from steel shelf brackets and 1 5/8" Unistrut.

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  6. 08-28-2017, 02:06 PM #6
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    The checkering cradle which I have seen and liked was inexpensive and easy to build.

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