Over at Dan’s Shop is an article describing a bevel gauge. This is a simple enough tool that has fixed angles for 90, 60. 45 and 30 degrees. The lines are simple and the layout is simple. Better yet, these are the angles that I tend to use most. I will definitely be making one of these fairly soon!
While looking around Some of Dan’s Back Articles, I have developed a pretty strong admiration for this guy. His ethics are sound, he sticks to using hand tools, he records the hand tools he used for a project, and his panel gauge is one of the prettiest I have ever seen.
Dan has done some pretty good research into the question, “What is the ideal tool set?”
I will be taking notes.
Bob
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And now take a look at Peter Follansbee’s new post on Mitre gauges to get a bit more info.
Thank you for the heads up! http://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/ has all the extra data I needed to make sure I got it right.
Bob