i have read of Charlie Russel checkering a friends rifle by a camp fire with a pen knife, maybe you have a gold mine!
seriously though that was a poor attempt to restore the original checkering.

the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~