Marking gauge
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Description
Marking gauge. Has a wooden key.
A marking gauge has a fence that can be moved and locked along a beam. There is a single pin to scribe one line. It is used primarily for scribing tenons and dovetail shoulder lines, and occasionally to mark out a rabbet. The pin is fixed and the fence slides to the correct location on the beam and then is locked in place. There are dozens of mechanisms for locking the fence on the beam, some using a captured wedge but more likely some sort of thumbscrew. (http://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/Merchant/merchant.mvc?Screen=NEXT&StoreCode=toolstore&nextpage=/extra/gaugeguide.html)
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