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Checkering on a Ballard Butt Stock
Apr 8th, 2024 at 11:33am
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Here is a neat checkering pattern as laid out and cut by Wayne Belec on one of my Ballards stocked with fancy wood.
  
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Re: Checkering on a Ballard Butt Stock
Reply #1 - Apr 8th, 2024 at 11:39am
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Very nicely done.  I’d like to see more of the gun.
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Reply #2 - Apr 8th, 2024 at 12:55pm
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Very fine work, would also enjoy seeing the full rifle
  
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Reply #3 - Apr 9th, 2024 at 10:44am
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Top of the line work! Would like to see some more pictures of the wood and rifle. Mullered borders are cool and I plan on trying them on a rifle I’m building.
Thanks for sharing 
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Re: Checkering on a Ballard Butt Stock
Reply #4 - Apr 9th, 2024 at 10:57am
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Thanks for posting. Always enjoy pretty wood and different ideas for checkering.
  
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Re: Checkering on a Ballard Butt Stock
Reply #5 - Apr 10th, 2024 at 10:12am
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Looks very nice! And different than any original Ballard checkering pattern I've seen.
  
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Re: Checkering on a Ballard Butt Stock
Reply #6 - Apr 10th, 2024 at 5:31pm
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Diamonds always look the best with checkering!
  
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Re: Checkering on a Ballard Butt Stock
Reply #7 - Apr 10th, 2024 at 9:10pm
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Grand slam wrote on Apr 9th, 2024 at 10:44am:
Mullered borders

I'm not familiar with "mullered" in woodworking or checkering.  All I could find online suggested something else:

mullered / (ˈmʌləd) /adjective slang
drunk, heavily defeated; trounced

What does it mean here?
  
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Re: Checkering on a Ballard Butt Stock
Reply #8 - Apr 10th, 2024 at 10:35pm
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'Mullered Border - A style of boundary line at the edge of a checkered area on a gun stock. It is made by using a convex cutting tool which is slightly larger than the normal pointed checkering tool used for the body of the pattern. Typical of better English guns and of fine American guns built to evoke an English style.'
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Re: Checkering on a Ballard Butt Stock
Reply #9 - Apr 11th, 2024 at 1:11am
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Another very good example is the border of the diamond in the subject rifle checkering photograph.
  
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Re: Checkering on a Ballard Butt Stock
Reply #10 - Apr 11th, 2024 at 1:53am
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Thank you.  Now I can see it.

Very nice touch.
  
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