| Project by JayT | posted 06-30-2013 05:07 PM | 5314 views | 10 times favorited | 22 comments |  |
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Made a whole fighter wing of marking gauges when constructing the ones for the tool swap. The design is loosely based on David Barron's mini marking gauge. I did email David before using the design and he graciously gave permission to do so. The thing I like most is that it is very compact (about 3 inches each dimension) and fits easily in one hand. Woods used included curly bubinga, bloodwood, macacauba, pear and mineral streaked silver maple. The pear and maple were salvaged from my smoking wood pile and most of the rest was scrap from other projects.
The second picture is the two that were sent to shampeon as part of the swap. You can see that there are two different blade designs. One is made from a heavy bimetal recip blade. The harder cobalt steel is still at the tip, so it should stay sharp for a long time—if not, it can be resharpened several times. The other blade is ground from a pipe tubing cutter replacement wheel and has four cutting points so when one gets dull, the blade can be rotated to a sharp one.
The last pics are close-ups of the gauges. The two with maple fences and the brass wear strips in pic 6 were test runs for the swap design. Those two, as well as the maple and bubinga one in the next to last photo were kept in my shop for use—they either had design flaws or an error in building so that I wouldn’t feel right giving them to someone else. The remaining gauges have been or are going to be given out as thank you gifts to woodworkers that do demonstrations in the stores where I work.
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Don W
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#1 posted 06-30-2013 05:10 PM
holy cow!!! Talk about a production line. Very nicely done.
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#2 posted 06-30-2013 05:12 PM
Nice family there. They kind of remind me of airplanes sitting there all together like that.
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#3 posted 06-30-2013 05:14 PM
Good idea JayT.
They look great.
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#4 posted 06-30-2013 05:40 PM
A really nice squadron of gauges.
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#5 posted 06-30-2013 05:41 PM
Pretty cool man.
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#6 posted 06-30-2013 06:13 PM
very nice, all the nice gauges im seeing makes me wish i had joined in
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#7 posted 06-30-2013 06:34 PM
nice!
terryR
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#8 posted 06-30-2013 08:31 PM
Yep, they do resemble airplanes in the group shot!
Nice work, JayT. I personally like a small gauge since it fits in the hand so nicely.
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#9 posted 06-30-2013 09:15 PM
very nice group
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JayT
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#10 posted 07-01-2013 12:13 AM
Thanks guys.
A few more pics for reference and comparison.
Disassembled to show the parts. The brass machine screw threads are tapped right into the fence section, while the blade screw is threaded into an aluminum insert that was glued into the beam with PU glue. One of the ways I challenged myself was to build the gauge using parts and pieces all purchased at the local hardware store.
Size comparison. Shown next to the traditional gauge I received from Don Broussard and a typical 8in try square.
And finally, how it fits in the hand for easy use.
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#11 posted 07-01-2013 01:37 AM
very nice!
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#12 posted 07-01-2013 10:53 AM
Very well done JayT
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Don Broussard
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#13 posted 07-01-2013 03:24 PM
I wish sometimes that the LJ site had a “Like” button. I’m running out of superlatives to write in the comments on all these superb postings of marking gauges. Spectacular, JayT!
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#14 posted 07-01-2013 03:53 PM
Excellent Jay, I may have to make some similar to these at some point. I like the idea of having a few smaller gauges around
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#15 posted 07-01-2013 10:58 PM
Take the blades off and put some propellers on those. You could do dogfight simulations! Great work. I like the size.
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