Coupla gauges

Hop gauges

Frank D. in Montreal

>These are meant for marking over obstacles or for marking a surface that slopes upward from the side.

anachronistic!

frank shic (walnut ck, ca)

>nice work nevertheless!

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Garrett in Victoria

>Very nice, Frank.

Could you explain how the round 'wedges' work?

Cheers, Garrett

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Frank D. in Montreal

>Thanks Garrett. They are just dowels that are cut like wedges in the middle. When not locked the beam slides through the mortise, then you just push the dowel a little and the wedge shape engages the beam. To lock permanently it just takes a little tap of the end of the dowel on the bench. Here's a pic of the wedges--you can't see the wedge shape because it's hidden in the fence of the gauge.

Here's a link to Jeff gorman's site that also explains how they work:

http://www.amgron.clara.net/markingout/markinggauge/makeyourown.htm

They can be used in any number of configurations, horizontally or vertically. I was talking with sculptor and tool maker Andr� Milette once and he mentioned that round wedges hold much better than flat wedges (he uses round wedges on some of his planes). The wedges on my gauges hold very tightly with minimum pressure. And since they are perpendicular to the beam you can't inadvertently slide the beam when locking (as you can when the wedges are parellel to the beam)




Jeff Gorman on marking gauges

They look real nice!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

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