I'm looking for some help and direction from someone with first hand knowledge to point me in the direction of some decent quality tooling to do some checkering work. I've never done it before, and don't want to buy tools unless I know they are of decent quality.

I've seen the videos and can find the tooling from some links, but I'd rather hear from people who have been there, done that. I want to try some checkering on the sides of my wooden planes I build for grip enhancement, as well as aesthetics.

Thanks,

Jeff