Pattern Finish on Peg Ends

[lvlagneto]

Has anyone seen this type of patterned finish on peg ends/tips?  How is this done?

[jacobsaunders]

Looks more like saw marks

[lvlagneto]

8 minutes ago, jacobsaunders said:

Looks more like saw marks

It's a neat diamond pattern, crossing lines, perfectly even.  I wasn't sure if others might know if it was branded somehow, or if some type of file can give that perfect of a result.

[Brad Dorsey]

34 minutes ago, jacobsaunders said:

Looks more like saw marks

Or file marks.

[violinsRus]

definitely looks like they whacked the fresh-cut end on a file.  Maybe just a shortcut, it took less time than actually following the bosses instruction to neatly file the peg ends!

[lvlagneto]

Just two neat swipes I guess.  It looks far more uniform from afar.

   

[Dwight Brown]

I guess if you wanted to do a really nice job of it you could use the same cutters/files they use to checker gun stocks maybe?

DLB

[edi malinaric]

3 hours ago, lvlagneto said:

It's a neat diamond pattern, crossing lines, perfectly even.  I wasn't sure if others might know if it was branded somehow, or if some type of file can give that perfect of a result.

Hi Ivlagneto - easiest made with a thread restoring file. They come in UNF, BSW and metric profiles. Each file features 8 different "finess" of threads. Available from a shop that caters for engineers.

cheers edi

[Rico Suave]

One could get really creative and have a signature pattern using Leather Tooling Stamps

[brokenbow]

My first thought was leather tooling stamps, also, gun makers created a grid like that on the gunstock termed checkering.

I guess one could decorate the ends of pegs by inlaying an engraved mother of pearl dot or ?

[lvlagneto]

2 hours ago, brokenbow said:

My first thought was leather tooling stamps, also, gun makers created a grid like that on the gunstock termed checkering.

I guess one could decorate the ends of pegs by inlaying an engraved mother of pearl dot or ?

I thought that it might have been some type of hotplate with a pattern, but the file response must be right.  I hadn't looked at closer photos to see that the depth of the grooves varied.  Some are close to matching in depth, but the direction and depth is not identical on all pegs.  When looking at arms length, it looks mechanically clean though.

Doing inlay on a peg end or decoration is just another thing to maintain!  

[MarkBouquet]

I'm trying to understand why anyone might do this, but it looks like the pattern milled into a bench vise jaw, and perhaps it was just pressed into the peg ends when the pegs were held in that vise. The button end might have been protected by a wood block. For whatever reason I'm not sure. It could have been a milling or drill press vise too. If so, it's just an unintended artifact from a careless technique.

[Marty Kasprzyk]

Wooden gun stocks are often checkered with diamond-like patterns for better gripping.  The checkering tools are double triangle files or tooth cutters with two parallel edges.

The starting pass is makes two grooves.  The cutter is moved over one groove and another pass is made. This is repeated until the surface is covered with parallel grooves.  The process is repeated with a different cutting direction to form diamond shaped points on the wood.  The angle between the cuts determines how oblong or square the diamond points are.

The depth of the cut determines how sharp the diamond points are.  The peg ends had shallow cuts.