JessEm Device Setting Gauge: JessEm.com $60 (massive imperial gauge)
THIS UNIQUE HEIGHT GAUGE beats others I’ve used, in a lot of essential methods. For one, it’s versatile. The blade is precisely 1⁄8 in. thick, with corresponding traces on the measuring scale 1⁄8 in. aside. This allows you to use the highest or backside of the blade to line up a lower. And the blade is lengthy and correct, which means you need to use any a part of it as a reference. Higher but, the gauge flips squarely onto its facet, letting you employ it to set the space between a fence and a bit, for instance.
The gauge can also be very correct, because of its heavyduty development, huge base, glorious machining, and toothed measuring rack, which locks at 1⁄16-in. increments. Whereas some peak gauges measure in a lot smaller increments, I discover that sixteenths are nice for the overwhelming majority of conditions that decision for a setup gauge like this one.
The JessEm Device-Setting Gauge is made with chrome steel, in two sizes, with metric and imperial measurements out there for every. Personally, I’d select the bigger mannequin. Priced at simply $60, with a 5-in.- lengthy base and 31⁄4 in. of vertical journey, I believe it’s a steal. The smaller mannequin is $40, with 2 in. of journey.
—Asa Christiana is FWW’s editor-at-large.
Photographs: Asa Christiana
From Wonderful Woodworking #310.
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