LV Does it AGAIN! *LINK*

AWESOME!!!

Mike Real from Pittsburgh

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Re: LV Does it AGAIN!

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>Fantastic! Rob Lee is on the cutting edge of innovation.

Already backordered for two weeks

Ted Owen, Pittsburgh

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Worthless without the fine adjustment feature

Eric Hedberg

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I'm glad I didn't make my marking knife yet!

Greg B�tit, Vergennes, VT

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Re: LV Does it AGAIN!

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Amazing concept, very inventive, even if it is a solution looking for a solution [sic].

Pam

Good beginning *LINK*

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I'm looking forward to the icosa-gauge and, in about two years, the ultimate development: the enneaconta-gauge.

(I had to look them up; too many years since solid geometry).


Where I looked them up

Look at you callander!

Ernie Miller Topeka

>I think Rob is pretty good at these things. What was last years spoof?

Just think...

Martin from Granbury

>what this one of a kind tool will be worth 50 years from now.

I can see the ebay auction now:

One of a kind April Fool's 2005 Lee Valley Commemorative Marking Gauge, signed personally by Rob Lee, who was recently awarded the Order of Canada, just like his father!

Opening bid, $1000!

Good joke Rob!

Re: Hey, Rob

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Your copy kind of indicates you actually built one of those monsters, not just put it together in Photoshop or something. Is that true?

A micro-adjust gauge with just two bars would be a useful tool for mortises, especially if one of the micro-adjusters moved just one bar and the other moved both bars at the same time. Could you figure out how to make one of those?

Re: Hey, Rob *LINK*

Christopher Fitch @ Memphis

>I read somewhere recently that LV does one of each tool..

The 1" thick blade for the LA Jack does indeed exist....


http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=49588&cat=1,41182

Re: Look at you callander! *LINK*

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I remembered this being a block plane...another CRS moment.


Last year's

Re: Hey, Rob

Rob Lee

>Hi William -

Yes - we did actually make the 12 head one....took just over a day to make it!

Have made double gauges too - but are still fiddling with 'em...

The difficulty I have, is that the double gauge is still twice the cost of a single...I feel it has to be 1 1/2 times (or less!). Weight is also an issue - the solid rods are heavy....but hollow rods are expensive. We continue to dance around the sweet spot, without jumping on it.

For a Veritas product - we won't go offshore...so we're still trying to get costs down to our target.

Cheers -

Rob

Re: Hey, Rob

Christopher Fitch @ Memphis

>Now I remember...I read it in my latest issue of Furniture & Cabinet Making magazine

Re: Just think...

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Keep working on it! If anyone can come up with an elegant solution to this problem, you guys can.

Re: oops

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>the above was meant to be a reply to Rob.

...still laughing, OTC

Sweet...Even if they won't...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>make it I can make my own...All I need to do is order 10 gauges and...

As I think about it more,

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>it's really not their best effort. Imagine the difficulty of keeping the bars set to the various dimensions from contacting the wood inadvertently. You could wind up with so many random lines scribed on the stock, you wouldn't know where to cut.

Re: Hey, Rob

paul womack

>Yes - we did actually make the 12 head one....took just over a day to make it!

Just imagine the price when that puppy comes up at a Crane's auction, 100 years from now ;-)

BugBear