If you're more in to straight stick stuff only, let me know what you like to do and the scale you like to do it in, and I'll rethink what I just wrote. I tend to build stuff with an even mix of sheet goods and solid stock, so that's my natural bend when I start talking about tools. If you're not a sheet goods guy, I've wasted a bunch of your time. Add to that a 36' with centering scale and between your T-square and the two rules you're covered with a convenient measuring device up to half a sheet. If you do sheet goods and you have a table saw, I would get the 49-1/2' R-to-L, L-to-R. Our Woodworking Rules are very nice to have around. I also carry around one of our Saddle T squares.not a big one.usually either the 6 or 8. The 12SS are the most popular sizes of our fixed blade squares, but personally, I gravitate to the 642SS. It just feels like the perfectly natural size for carrying around checking things. I can't stop playing with it and I love taking it out to the shop and using it. The one that came through the photo studio seems to have found a permanent home on my desk. Though you mentioned having the 6' SS DelVe on order, I want to mention the 642SS. The 2616 is marvelous if you are laying out sheet goods work and in my shop it is the 'be all and end all' reference upon which all things that call themselves square are judged. Alternatively, we just released a solid phenolic square that is specifically designed (even named) to square up the MFT, but it is sort of a one-trick-pony (in my opinion). If you have or are going to have an MFT table, I highly recommend our 2616 Precision Square in all aluminum. What equipment you have and what you plan to build will have a profound effect on which directions you should go with our stuff. I'm here to give you my personal opinion, not the company line. I've been a Festool junkie so long most of my tools say 'Festo' on them. I'm the Creative Director for Woodpeckers (which means I write the sales pitches and do the videos). But again, 4 different options and sizes. And I’m definitely eyeballing their most recent Combination squares. I preordered the 6 and 3” Delve stainless squares on the most recent One Time Tools.

Which of the basic woodworking Woodpeckers tools can you not live without? Which ones were you less than impressed with? Which 4-5 would you rebuy in a heartbeat if you had to? Would love to hear people’s opinions on it.Ĭurrent lineup includes the 24” T square and the 4” saddle T. But deciding which squares you want, between the 651, 851, 1251.steel, aluminum, sizes. But imagine ya didn’t and you had the opportunity to build a nice set of Woodpeckers. What I want to know from everyone is, if they had to start from scratch, had a certain budgets for proper measurement and layout tools, what would be your first 4-5 Woodpecker tools that you would want to have in the shop. Much like the Festool EC-150 sander hooked me on Festool, this square hooked me on Woodpeckers.

I decided I’m going all out in a Buy-Once, Cry-Once mentality, hence how I ended up at FOG.īought my first Woodpeckers tool being the 24” T square. The tail end of the bar is hollow with a threaded cap allowing for storage of extra scribe wheels and spacers.So I’m just getting a new shop setup at a new home. To re-sharpen simply hone the flat face to bring it back to its original sharpness. The tool-steel wheels are stationary so if you need a fresh cutting edge, just loosen the screw, rotate the wheel to a sharp section, tighten the screw and you’re ready to go. You can quickly configure the scribe wheels and spacers for single or double marks spaced in 1/16” increments from 1/8” to 1/2″. They’re precise, extremely rigid and easy to control. Woodpeckers newest One Time Tools are precision-machined, wheel-type marking gauges made for uncompromising accuracy. Sliced scribe lines not only provide a more accurate reference line but also help create crisp hand-cut joints. If you hand cut dovetails, tenons, mortises, lap and most other joints, a good marking gauge belongs on your workbench. Marking gauges are best for cutting razor-thin lines that help align your chisels and hand saws for improved accuracy. Woodpecker’s has a new line-up of Marking Gauge products available at Woodcraft.

Woodpeckers one timetool marking gauge