COLEN CLENTON - Cutting Gauges

Cutting Gauge SIZE: The head is 100mm wide and 24mm thick made from wood and brass. It has a brass rub strip to prevent wear and the locking knob is threaded through a brass pin to ensure it won't wear out. The arm length allows you to scribe a line 0 - 185mm from the edge. AVERAGE WEIGHT: 440 gram CUTTER: One HSS knife specially sharpened so when you push or pull the gauge the shape of the cutter pulls the gauge head toward the face of the wood making it impossible for the cutter to wander in the wood grain. This makes for exceptional accuracy when making out your joints in the most difficult pieces of wood. The cutter can be removed for sharpening or moved for depth adjustment. That being said, it is rare that the cutter will need to be sharpened due to the high quality HSS used. STANDARD WOOD: Rose Sheoak, Tasmanian Blackwood. (Enquire for availability) SPECIALTY WOOD: Lace Sheoak, Ebony. (Enquire for availability) PURPOSE: Marking out joints where a parallel line is required. Leaves a superbly cut line which leads to accurate and good looking joints. Unlike many cutting gauges which have a small surface area on the head of the gauge, this tools is very controlable when you are cutting a line when the cutter is extended a long way from the head.

Screw Action Mortise and Cutting Gauge SIZE: The head is 100mm wide and 24mm thick made from wood and brass. It has a brass rub strip to prevent wear and the locking knob is threaded through a brass pin to ensure it won't wear out. The arm length allows you to cut one or two parallel lines 0 - 185mm from the edge. AVERAGE WEIGHT: 500 grams CUTTERS: 2 x HSS knives specially sharpened so when you push or pull the gauge the shape of the cutter pulls the gauge head toward the face of the wood making it impossible for the cutter to wander in the wood grain. This makes for exceptional accuracy when making out your joints in the most difficult pieces of wood. Maximum distance between cutters is 48 mm. STANDARD WOOD: Rose Sheoak, Tasmanian Blackwood. (Enquire for availability) SPECIALTY WOOD: Lace Sheoak, Ebony. (Enquire for availability) PURPOSE: Marking out joints where one or two parallel lines are required, eg mortise and tenon joints. The screw action allows you to very accurately position the cutters in very small and precise increments. The 'rolls royce' of Colen's tools because it makes a very neat line(s) with or across the grain. If you own this tool you won't need any other gauge - it does it all.

This photo is a cutaway view of the inside of one of Colen's gauges showing the detail of the workmanship involved with making this quality tool which will last forever.