Thread: Panel Gauge

Hi Steven

That is very nicely done, very nice indeed! I've been wanting to make one for yonks and just not got around to it.

Did you design this to fit your hand or to push/pull? And which direction does it naturally want to go in?

Regards from Perth

Derek

To pull.
But the pencil is at 90* and it travels both ways very well.
The rebate is the key. It keeps it it flat level and square. I've been looking for an idea to attach or make another for curves.

very easy to hold and use.

Very nywce Stevo, very ergonomic looking, I might have to make one, thank you.

That looks like it feels real nice!

Originally Posted by Lumber Bunker

One of the other things that i've been meaning to do for some time.

Blackwood, Panel Gauge.
very simple design with the wedge to hold it in place and it fills a void in the making department.

If you work with plywood much, take an hour or two out and make on of these suckers. Have a hunt around on the boards here, i stole the design it from someone on here. Thanks for that.

Steve Thomas
The Lumber Bunker

Steve,
Nice work!
I like the look of that handle, and I might just have to pinch the design myself.
It would be interesting to see the original, and watch how the shape changes with each generation.
Regards,
Peter

Originally Posted by Lumber Bunker

I've been looking for an idea to attach or make another for curves.

I used to have one with two pins on the underside for following a curve. One pin was fixed and the other was on a dovetailed slide so the pins could be moved closer together or farther apart to better aproximate the radius being followed.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

I used to have one with two pins on the underside for following a curve. One pin was fixed and the other was on a dovetailed slide so the pins could be moved closer together or farther apart to better aproximate the radius being followed.

hummmmm

So wheres the new radius tool Steve? You had few hours to make one

Have to wait for Mrs Lumber Bunker to go visit her mum again, so i can get some quality time in the shed "off task"

Originally Posted by Lumber Bunker

To pull.
But the pencil is at 90* and it travels both ways very well.
The rebate is the key. It keeps it it flat level and square. I've been looking for an idea to attach or make another for curves.

very easy to hold and use.

Steve,
For curved work there can't be a more beautiful thing than Blaisdell's Patent Gage. Here is a picture of a reproduction made by plane maker Wayne Anderson. Here is the patent.
In my sketch book of tool projects still to make...I have a drawing of a panel gauge with a spring steel flexible fence based on this design of a quirk router I have in my collection of tools.
www.petermcbride.com/planemaking/
Regards,
Peter