Now that's a marking gauge

[Mr Ed]

Sutton Toolworks (TM) has been at it again!

Cheers, Ed

 

[Paul Chapman]

8) 8) =D>

 

[Woodmagnet]

 

[Ironballs]

Here's hoping I get Ed in the secret santa :lol:

 

[Karl]

Here's hoping I get Ed in the secret santa :lol:

Too late - i've sent him a PM asking him to fix the draw....

Nice work Ed. Did you make more than one?

Cheers

Karl

 

[Mr Ed]

Only one so far, but who knows there could be more.... :wink:

Cheers, Ed

 

[TheTiddles]

Did the marking wheel come from a similar product or was that made by you also?

Aidan

 

[Mr Ed]

Made by me from A2 stainless.

In all honesty I've not tested it enough to see if the edge holding is perfect, but other stuff I've made in the same way seems to keep an edge OK.

Cheers, Ed.

 

[TheTiddles]

interesting, was it once a countersunk machine screw?

Aidan

 

[wizer]

Lovely Job Ed, is this going to be featured in an article somewhere?

 

[Mr Ed]

interesting, was it once a countersunk machine screw?

Aidan

No it wasn't. It was made from the shank of an A2 stainless M12 bolt and then bored through the middle, which was a right pain in the a*se. I wonder if a machine screw would be an easier starting point...

Cheers, Ed

 

[Mr Ed]

Lovely Job Ed, is this going to be featured in an article somewhere?

No plans for that yet, but you never know...

Ed

 

[woodbloke]

Ed - nice looking gauge...what's the timber?... looks like a bit of cocobolo - Rob

 

[Mr Ed]

The timber is Wanx River Rosewood (another one from the bargain bin at Craft Supplies). Its very hard and dense so its quite well suited to this application.

Cheers, Ed

 

[bugbear]

That is absolutely beautiful, but I'm worried about the short grain at the edge of the head, at least in the long term.

BugBear

 

[PaulO]

Wanx River

( :lol: schoolboy snigger)

How does the screw clamp on the shaft? Does it act directly or is their a brass/bronze/leather pip between the screw and the shaft?

Did you heat treat the cutter after making it?

When can you send me the mortise gauge version? :wink:

 

[Racers]

Hi,

Nice gauge, but it needs a flat on the head to stop it rolling off the bench.

Pete

 

[wizer]

I have found with my Tite-mark, that the knob seems to weight it enough not to roll too much.

 

[Mr Ed]

Well it might be that suggested problem #1 (potential weak short grain on the edge) solves suggested problem #2 ( no flat spot to stop it rolling off bench) !

I did wonder about the durability of the edges of the timber bit, but the rosewood is extremely solid and it seems OK so far. I daresay if you dropped it from a height onto a concrete floor it would damage, but then so would a Titemark. I've dropped it a couple of times onto my timber floor without incident (by way of experimentation you understand :roll: ).

The brass thumbscrew provides ballast that makes it not want to roll, but also on most settings the thumbscrew is actually touching the bench if you set it down with that at the bottom. When not in use it can stand up as in my last picture.

The screw clamps straight onto the shaft, which is stainless onto stainless and seems to be OK.

Cheers, Ed.

 

[Mr Ed]

Wanx River

( :lol: schoolboy snigger)

Glad to see I'm not the only one with a childish sense of humour.

At the sales counter at Craft Supplies they appear to have a system where the lady reads the labels aloud to the guy who types them into the computer and tells you the price. As I remarked to my wife at the time, this purchase had great comic potential, so it was to my great disappointment that she just read out "rosewood".

Cheers, Ed