KAKURI Wood Marking Gauge Woodworking Tool 4.75" / 120mm, Japanese Wood Scribe Tool KEBIKI Carpentry Wood Scriber, Made in JAPAN

Very good quality. Works very well. Would not hesitate buying it again. Good brand.

I’ve used the pin style gauge and the roller style from which I got mediocre results from both. I couldn’t see or even feel the line and the pin style left scratches in the grain. This is easy to set up and adjust and the blade gives a nice crisp line that is easy to find with a chisel.

Reasonable quality, The fit of the body to the sliding rod is not great but doesn’t have to be. this kind of tool is adjusted by tapping lightly with a very small hammer or similar.This tool is designed for cutting a marking line “across the grain”. Not designed for marking “along the grain”. The knife will dig in and follow the grain not the edge of the board. Use a pin or wheel marker instead.To those reviewers who criticize the fact that the blade is not parallel with the face - a cutting gauge is designed to be slid in one direction, not the other, and the angle of the blade drags the fence tight against the edge of the wood so the mark is more accurate.The long fence on this type of gauge helps prevent twisting while marking.Marples “cutting gauges” are available at a similar price point and I would recommend those if you can’t get used to tap and set adjustments :)

Measurements are off, but that doesn't matter much. Great tool, locks in well, leave a line that is bigger than the wheel gauge, with more accuracy.

Really like this gauge. Used specifically to mark center of 4x4 wood beams. Consistent results every time.

This is a nice tool, I use these much more often than I expected. It turns out to be terrific for cutting consistent strips of corrugated cardboard I use for models and prototypes, and also for splitting thin strips of wood along the grain, which is one of the original uses for these. You make repeated cuts on both sides, using the same reference edge, and then break the wood at the cut line. The resulting edge needs some planing to clean it up, but it's very effective on soft wood up to maybe 1/4" thickness.Probably more common is to use this as a marking gauge, or more precisely a "cutting gauge" since it leaves a knife line rather than a v-shaped pin line. The rapid adjustment of this one is very handy. The other two I have use a wedge in a tapered mortise for locking the arm, and that can be a little finicky.This one is on the short side at 90mm. The other two I have (also bought here on Amazon) are 120mm long and are easier to register when the arm is extended out further.This is an inexpensive model, maybe an affordable DIY version in Japan, where it is made. But it is very serviceable and its somewhat loose tolerances are the bar/body fit do not seem to affect its repeatability.I'm glad to have it and use it frequently.

Easy to use and works very well. It not only marks well but I have also used it to cut very thin wood to make my own Kumiko strips.

I needed the blade to be adjustable but it is fixed