During a snowy day last week I decided to turn to my list of backlogged projects to fine something to build. I decided to create a modified pencil gauge that David Charlesworth describes in his book Furniture Making Techniques- A Guide to Hand Tools and Methods. David describes the modification of a pin marking gauge by pulling out the pin and drilling an angled hole to place a pencil in. This pleasant angle of the pencil allows you to see the pencil and where it is marking at all times. This is hard to see if the pencil tip is directly under the gauge bar. The other important feature of this design is the channel in the face of the gauge. This allows the body of the pencil to be recessed into the head, allowing a line to be drawn very close to the face. After using this gauge for a week I wonder how I ever worked without it!
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