I was thinking stringing or some other type of inlay
I was thinking stringing or some other type of inlay
David, I recently had a couple of videos pop up on You Tube which were about mini saws that were made and used specifically for putting the cross hatching on gun stocks or tool handles. Makes sense to have a small saw to do it because a chisel would cause tear out. That is what your mini saws might be for.
robo hippy
Checkering would make sense of some of those tools, wish I thought of that
Given the hours you've spent, on the media you own, you should have the proverbial atom splitting edge. There would be no doubt it was sharp. None. Zero. You could slice the entire alphabet out of a piece of copier paper and every single millimeter of every letter would be perfectly clean and you wouldn't have to go the stones once during the process. That you don't have that sort of edge clearly indicates that something is amiss in your methodology.
Closed per OP's request