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I figured a $60 metal marking gauge was overkill, then a kitchen cabinet job made me eat my words
For years I got by with a pencil and a speed square, and honestly it worked fine for framing and rough stuff. But I took on a kitchen remodel over in Lansing last fall and the homeowner wanted the face frames and drawer fronts to line up dead flush, no filler strips, nothing. I fought my old way for a whole weekend and kept getting scribe lines that wandered a hair, which showed up big once I went to set the pulls. Said something about it to a guy I know who runs a small cabinet shop, and he just handed me his marking gauge and said try this before you knock your head against it again. So I dropped $60 on a decent one, and I'm not kidding, the very next drawer bank came out tight on the first try because I could lock the blade and pull one clean line across every piece instead of measuring each one over. Now I reach for it before the pencil on anything that shows. What I keep kicking myself over is all the trim and built-ins where I fudged the fit and blamed the lumber, when the truth is my line was just sloppy. Am I late to this party or do most of you already run a gauge on face frame work?
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