4 1/2 hours wasted on a stupid #!****! bevel guage. I'm making an Oak built-in corner cupboard, part of a much bigger job that I've almost finished. (oak panelling etc,etc. ) No real difficulties other than all of the walls are on the water as is the ceiling and floor.(300year old house hence the oak panelling), but no real surprises. All of my big machinery is on site BUT my normal hand tools are at another job. No problem as I have double of most things including a real nasty bevel guage that has lurked in my workshop since time immemorial. my normal guage is a sweet Veritas thing that does what its told, a bevel guage is a bevel guage right??
WRONG
So there I am measuring off for this angled cupboard preparing to do the door frames, I take the bevel reading, set the fence on the planer and off I go, go to fit the planed pieces only to find they are well out,O.k, I take the measurement again to check, everything seems good but pieces still dont fit.Must be a problem with the framing thinks I :-k . So off comes the face frames and everything seems to be good, so I start puzzling."Do the right thing," thinks I, and take the entire framing out (screwed into concrete and rubbish lathe and plaster walls,) and reassemble. I take all of the measurements again, cut and plane more wood, starting to get cross now. Same problem :evil: :evil:
ANYWAY.... you starting to get the idea? and so it goes on till I've got trenches in the lathe and plaster, I had to re-scribe the uprights(which is a pain in anyone's books,) and STILL the same problem. The poor house owner is probably wondering what happened to the nice amiable chap that arrived in the morning.
To cut a long story to just a bit shorter, as I was having kittens and puppies and everthing else I notice that the arm on the guage had recessed in to the holder on one side.EH!! That's what I thought. The cheap piece of rubbish had been machined at a slant at the end. So one side was proud everytime I took a reading, pushing it out every time I set the planer fence, such minute amount I didn't notice, but over any length it magnified. :roll: ,
Needless to say I'll be sticking to my usual rule of "DONT USE RUBBISH TOOLS"
Thanks for listening, I feel better now.
Decklan p.s any "You should have checked.....," can get stuffed!!!!
WRONG
So there I am measuring off for this angled cupboard preparing to do the door frames, I take the bevel reading, set the fence on the planer and off I go, go to fit the planed pieces only to find they are well out,O.k, I take the measurement again to check, everything seems good but pieces still dont fit.Must be a problem with the framing thinks I :-k . So off comes the face frames and everything seems to be good, so I start puzzling."Do the right thing," thinks I, and take the entire framing out (screwed into concrete and rubbish lathe and plaster walls,) and reassemble. I take all of the measurements again, cut and plane more wood, starting to get cross now. Same problem :evil: :evil:
ANYWAY.... you starting to get the idea? and so it goes on till I've got trenches in the lathe and plaster, I had to re-scribe the uprights(which is a pain in anyone's books,) and STILL the same problem. The poor house owner is probably wondering what happened to the nice amiable chap that arrived in the morning.
To cut a long story to just a bit shorter, as I was having kittens and puppies and everthing else I notice that the arm on the guage had recessed in to the holder on one side.EH!! That's what I thought. The cheap piece of rubbish had been machined at a slant at the end. So one side was proud everytime I took a reading, pushing it out every time I set the planer fence, such minute amount I didn't notice, but over any length it magnified. :roll: ,
Needless to say I'll be sticking to my usual rule of "DONT USE RUBBISH TOOLS"
Thanks for listening, I feel better now.
Decklan p.s any "You should have checked.....," can get stuffed!!!!
