Veritas Micro-Adjust Wheel Marking Gauges

           

The Veritas Micro-Adjust Marking Gauges are advertised by Veritas Tools as 'allows for unprecedented marking accuracy. The wheel cutter cuts wood fibres rather than tears them, and since it is sharp, bevelled only on the inside and non-rotating, it continuously forces the gauge face against the workpiece.'

Veritas Tools (of Canada) have as always done a fantastic job of putting their modern sleek stamp on this style of marking gauge and making it look cool and stylish while making sure the tool works well while being competetively priced for a tool which if looked after should last a long time.

To aid in the longevity of the Veritas marking gauges, the wheel can be resharpened on a sharpening stone and beyond this Veritas sell replacement marking gauge wheels.

These replacement wheels are standardized as such are interchangeable with any of the single rod Veritas marking gauges and one of the arms of Veritas Dual Wheel Marking Gauge .

The wheel cutter is easy to replace with it being held in place with a single screw.

The Veritas Micro-Adjust Marking Gauges are made with a single steel rod, a brass head with an additional collet for micro-adjustments and a hardened steel wheel cutter located at the top of the rod.

The gauge can be adjusted by sliding the head up or down the rod to the desired position before locking the head in position with the knurled brass locking nut.

Beyond this, you can achieve micro-adjustments by turning the black knurled locking nut.

The micro-adjust feature allows fine adjustments up to a range of 3/16" (5mm). So basically when you lock the brass locking nut, the head needs to be spot on or within 3/16" (5mm) so you can use the micro-adjust feature. If you happen to not be within 3/16" (5mm) you will need to start again.

The micro-adjust collet has a fine-pitch thread; one revolution advances or retracts wheel 1/32", half turn 1/64", quarter turn 1/128", etc.

The sliding action on the rod is good with a light but constant friction applied resulting in good, easy control. This is achieved with the use of an internal O-Ring feature.

The Veritas Micro-Adjust Marking Gauges are used to mark/scribe a constant marking on a piece of work at a set distance.

For a simple example if you require to scribe a marking on your work 76mm (3") from the edge of a piece of board for the whole length of the piece of the board, you would set the brass gauge head to 76mm (3") from the cutter, lock the head in place with the knurled nut and you are ready to mark by placing the brass head face against the edge of the piece of board and drawing the tool along the length of board resulting in the board being scored by the cutter wheel. The result being a line drawn 76mm (3") from the edge of the board for the whole length of the board.

The gauges can be used on pieces of work with the grain or cross-grain.

The Veritas Micro-Adjust Marking Gauges are made by Veritas with either a plain rod or a graduated rod marked in either metric or imperial measurements:

- The metric marking gauge is marked on the rod with markings to 150mm with 1mm increments.
- The imperial marking gauge is marked on the rod with markings to 6" with 1/16" increments.

History seems to suggest in the past these weren't the preferred style of marking gauge (at least in the UK) based upon my family's history with working with and buying and selling secondhand tools, the preferred marking gauges for 100's of years were wooden marking / mortice gauges or wooden and brass marking / mortice gauges such as the Marples Mortice / Marking Gauges which still remain ever popular today.

Veritas however are heavily challenging the traditional marking gauge market, so much so that other makers are making marking gauge designs similar to the Veritas marking gauge.

The Veritas Micro-Adjust Marking Gauges at the time of writing this review are supplied in a plastic box container after previously being supplied in a Veritas cardboard box.

Given the plastic problem the world faces, I found it disappointing when Veritas moved to plastic packaging on this item and hold hope they may return to cardboard or some more evironmentally friendly packaging soon.

Manufactured Dates

Non-Graduated: <2006 - Today

Imperial: <2006 - Today

Metric: <2008 - Today

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- Veritas Tools