I mostly use a Veritas dual wheel marking gauge, which I really like. However some recent work has me thinking I need a couple more types, but I'm not sure I've seen the types I'm thinking of. I plan to make them myself, but I'm curious if any of you have something like these.
One is a mortise gauge with the reach of a panel gauge. This would be for marking mortises on wide pieces, like for joining a divider to a carcass side with multiple through-mortises. Most mortise gauges only go out to 6" or so...I'd like to be able to go out to perhaps 16". I know this can be done by transferring marks from another board, but this can be sketchy on a very porous wood like red oak. With a gauge there should be no second guessing whether that is really a knife tick or a wood pore. I've also used a combo square and it's pretty tedious.
The other is for marking a thickness line on a live edge or waney board. The wheel gauge blade is only an 1/8" or so deep, so if the edge isn't reasonably flat and square to the reference face, the blade can't reach the area where it needs to mark. Most gauges try to keep the blade exposure short to minimize flex, which is great except for this situation. The solution is straightforward enough, just make a single blade gauge with a thick, rigid blade that extends maybe 1" or so past the beam. Just curious if anyone else has something like that.
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Originally Posted by David Eisenhauer
