I've been looking at both Tite-Mark and Veritas marking gauges, read the reviews here and comments...
I am leaning towards the Veritas, but I do have one little problem...
Tite-Mark offers fixed width morticing attachments, and both Tite-Mark and Verits offer Mortise gauge heads (loose - the kind you adjust). My problem with all of these is that I use Pigstickers for most of my mortises. I have several but I favor two which are a thin 1/4" and a fat 1/4", neither of them clicks in at 1/4". None of the adjustable heads can come closer than 3/8" (on Veritas anyway)... and I am assuming that this is because there is a bevel on the wheels, otherwise it looks like I could flip them in the shaft and make the wheels touch each other if I wanted to.
So does anyone think this is critical? Having the bevel oriented in that is? Today I use an old gauge with 2 pins, which technically have bevels on both sides, after all they are pins... but should I be concerned about this?
Hopefully Rob reads this and offers the mortising heads with the bevel reversed and that way I can sleep better
I may just get them and file notches in them so that when closed together they "interlock" and can come as close as my thin 1/4"
/p