This is my attempt at making a dual marking gauge. A marking gauge should be the simplest of things to make, but for better or worse I just wanted to play around a bit.
The wear plate/body are mild steel pieces riveted together using mild steel pins. The beams are just made from 3/8" bolts with the head and threaded section cut off. The infill material is Honduran rosewood.
Inside the thumb screw holes I placed pieces of leather that grip the beams. The rear clamp was added as an afterthought and unfortunately doesn't really work. The spacing I put between the beams was to large for a single 1/4" thumb screw to contact both beams with a tapered nose to lock them in place, so I though I could place leather between the two, and the screw would force it to expand and bind the two beams, but it doesn't work so well. I may split it in half and have the single screw pull the two halves together to grip the beams. To be honest, I have not yet even had the need to use both sides at once let alone move both beams together so I may just leave it off.
The cutters are made from O1 and have a thumb nail like profile.
Honestly I was just looking for an excuse to put rosewood and steel together.
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