Easyscribe from Rutlands

[scholar]

Morning

Two points I want to make here:

I received my daily email with a tempting bargain from Rutlands - today it is the Easyscribe for £16.95, previously £29.95.

I thought that looks like a reasonable deal (see below) and was annoyed that I must have paid the higher price when I bought one of these (excellent) tools a few months ago. Out of curiosity, I went back and checked what I paid in March and actually it was £19.95. In fact, I think that is a decent price, but why do retailers have to kid us with the "previously" bit? It does seem to be getting out of hand and Rutlands are only doing what the whole retail industry seem to do.

The second point I wanted to make is that, having used the Easyscribe quite a bit for fitting cabinets to wonky walls, it is everything it is stated to be and would be a good Christmas present if anyone is stuck for ideas. The £16.95 deal is a good one IMO (I have had some tat from Rutlands and sent it back, but this is not in that category.) I got the pack of pencil leads too at £4.95, which should last me a lifetime.

Cheers

 

[PAC1]

Felder, who never knowingly under price anything, are selling a plastic version for £8.40

 

[Monkey Mark]

Felder, who never knowingly under price anything, are selling a plastic version for £8.40

http://uk.feldershop.com/en/Workshop/Measuring-tools/Parallel-scribe-with-compass-point.html

 

[Monkey Mark]

I received my daily email with a tempting bargain from Rutlands - today it is the Easyscribe for £16.95, previously £29.95.

http://www.rutlands.co.uk/sp+woodworking-hand-tools-marking-copying-scribing-easyscribe-tool+dk6768

 

[scholar]

I received my daily email with a tempting bargain from Rutlands - today it is the Easyscribe for £16.95, previously £29.95.

http://www.rutlands.co.uk/sp+woodworking-hand-tools-marking-copying-scribing-easyscribe-tool+dk6768

Hmm.. Out of stock!

 

[Monkey Mark]

I remember izzy Swan using something like these in one of his videos. It had more adjustments to do more tasks, but I can't remember what it was called now.

EDIT: Found one. May be cheaper elsewhere. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=151847262820&alt=web

 

[bugbear]

I remember izzy Swan using something like these in one of his videos. It had more adjustments to do more tasks, but I can't remember what it was called now.

EDIT: Found one. May be cheaper elsewhere. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=151847262820&alt=web

Cheap on USA/Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Fastcap-ACCUSCRIB ... 12&sr=8-12

Edit;

http://www.isaaclord.co.uk/accuscribe-p ... mpass-tool

BugBear

 

[Monkey Mark]

Also found this. Looks like it's no longer produced but would be easy to copy.
Not as versatile as the others, but would have its uses.

 

[PeterBassett]

Begin Rant. Please note that this isn't woodworking related.

The rutlands website is astoundingly poorly implemented. I'm a software guy by trade and *every* time I go to their site from work it falls over with a lovely old school asp error.

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: '[string: "17, 127"]'
/common.asp, line 52

HAHA!

It's been happening for years. They obviously have no logging, no reporting of errors. I shouldn't be surprised since it's implemented in VBScript classic ASP. Lowest bidder got the job it seems.

If I were of a malicious bent I'd have started some probing for the raft of security mistakes they no doubt have lying around.

End Rant.

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

If I were of a malicious bent I'd have started some probing for the raft of security mistakes they no doubt have lying around.

Maybe you could just make it so that the site accepts reviews with scores below 4 stars...

 

[PeterBassett]

It does accept them. It just doesn't display them or use them in calculations of averages.

Some brace wearing type probably got a bonus for coming up with that *feature*.

 

[Monkey Mark]

If I were of a malicious bent I'd have started some probing for the raft of security mistakes they no doubt have lying around.

Maybe you could just make it so that the site accepts reviews with scores below 4 stars...

Or set up a UK Workshop discount

 

[chippy1970]

Get one of these http://www.amazon.com/Fastcap-ACCUSCRIB ... B0001GUDT6

Takes a normal pencil or marker, no messing around with special leads

Sent from my MotoE2(4G-LTE) using Tapatalk

 

[Graham Orm]

excellent-scribing-compass-2-t93179.html

 

[Monkey Mark]

For anyone looking at the Accuscribe, it looks like the newer version (pro?) has a removable sleeve to allow larger things like a sharpie fit in place if the pencil.

 

[rafezetter]

Or set up a UK Workshop discount

lol just what I was thinking some sort of code that bypasses 20%

 

[Monkey Mark]

Or set up a UK Workshop discount

lol just what I was thinking some sort of code that bypasses 80%

Fixed that for you.

 

[Droogs]

What's wrong with just using a steel washer and a pencil? a lot cheaper than some of this plastic tat

 

[MIGNAL]

Don't know. When I used to scribe doors to wonky 100 year old frames I used an ordinary school compass. I thought everyone did that?

 

[scholar]

What's wrong with just using a steel washer and a pencil? a lot cheaper than some of this plastic tat

Don't know. When I used to scribe doors to wonky 100 year old frames I used an ordinary school compass. I thought everyone did that?

I have used all those techniques for many years, including using spacers of various types.

The two drawbacks of the washer or spacer technique are that you need the washer or spacer to be just the right thickness (unless you don't mind how wide your scribing distance is) and you need two hands (sometimes three with a washer in my experience...!)

The Easyscribe gadget I was reviewing is really just a variation on the old school compass, agreed, although it has the advantage of the screw adjustment which most compasses do not and the advantage or disadvantage (as you wish) of taking thin pencil leads designed for the job. The flat guide blade is also more versatile than the compass point (you can extend it for one). So a compass does the job, of course, the gadget is just a bit of a specialised adaptation (you still need a compass to draw circles - except no doubt someone will pipe up to say "what about a nail and a bit of string - that's all we 'ad in our day, never did us any 'arm...." :roll: )

I was only offering the benefit of my hands on experience with this item where I thought some people might be interested - I was not proselytising that there is no other successful means of scribing and that you must buy one - I was suggesting I would be happy to have one as a Christmas present, that's all. I do regard myself as a discerning tool user and so when I said that IMO and based on my experience this item is not useless tat, but actually quite useful and effective in practice, I might have thought that might be taken as a reasonable opinion, not one you have to agree with, but not necessarily one to shoot down.

Different strokes for different folks...

Cheers