Woodpeckers | HAND TOOLS Stg-22 Stair Gauge Set

Description

Stair gauges are nothing new. Carpenters have been using them on framing squares for over a hundred years. What’s new is using them on tools other than framing squares. A few years ago, one of the Woodpeckers team members put one of his DelVe square to do a repetitive angle marking and since then, they’ve been coming up with clever new uses for them. Woodpeckers has suggested them so many times in their videos tha tthey finally decided it was time to stop selling them for other people and start making them themselves.  Works with any triangular-shaped carpenter’s square with angle markups Why are there two sizes If you’ve worked with construction lumber, you may have noticed the round-over on the edge seems to keep growing. Traditional depth stair gauges just barely reach the flat area. Combine the huge round-overs with missing knots and chipped edges, and you don’t have much of a chance to get an accurate location. So, Woodpeckers made one pair of Stair Gauges extra deep to make sure you get perfect results when working with framing lumber. On the other hand, when you’re using them in furniture and cabinet work, you’re working mostly with crisp corners and sometimes with very thin material. The thinner Stair Gauges are unobtrusive and well-balanced, even in their small DelVe Squares. How do you use them First, let’s take a look at the most obvious choices in the Woodpeckers line-up…DelVe Squares and SkillSquares. Repetitive angle marking is as simple as clamping a stair gauge on the desired angle. Now, no matter how many time you need to mark the angle, it will be exactly the same as the first. Whether you’re marking miter cuts, rafters, stair stringers, or any other angled layout, your speed, accuracy, and consistency just took a giant leap forward. This nifty trick also works with an other brand of carpenter’s square that has angle graduations. Another handy use of the stair gauges is with the Precision Triangles. Often, you need an offset from a corner and sometimes that offset is different on one side than it is on the other. Just set the two dimensions you need on the Precision Triangle and index them to your stock.  Of course, there’s the standard use for them with a framing square…laying out the rise and run on stair stringers. But you can also make your framing square easier and faster to use by clamping a pair of Stair Gauges to one leg and butting them to the edge of your material. Woodpeckers machines the Stair Gauges on high-precision CNC Swiss lathes, cutting each surface to strict tolerance. The Stair Gauges are anodized in their familiar “Woodpeckers Red” finish to protect them from oxidation and completely eliminate dark marks on our wood from aluminum contact. The set of four Stair Gauges also includes a wall-mountable Rack-It to keep your Stair Gauges in plain sight and ready to go to work. Like all Woodpeckers products the Stair Gauges are precisely machined and carefully inspected in their Strongsville, Ohio, facility (just south of Cleveland). Whether you’ve had your DelVe square or SkillSquare for years or are ordering one today, you’ll get faster, more accurate results when you add a set of Stair Gauges.