HOW TO MAKE A PANEL GAUGE

WE ALWAYS try to give our workshop-made tools a bit of style and flair – after all, they will adorn the walls of your workshop and should be a pleasure to build, view, hold and use.

On the end of our panel-gauge beam, we fitted a standard pencil. The gauge is dead easy to adjust and use. Following these instructions, it should only take a few hours to make.

For materials, search through your special off-cut stock or, better still, visit and choose some attractive wood for the project. We chose to showcase African padauk and hard maple. I’ve been a loyal client of Rare Woods since their inception in the early ’80s, and my visits to the Cape Town and Knysna warehouses have always made me feel like a kid in a candy store. Brendan and Seamus Harcourt- Wood of Rare Woods South Africa have again generously sponsored exquisite woods for this workshop-tool