How To Use a Marking Gauge (The Correct Method)

[@jaqhass]

Most people talk way too much and/or might as well skip an important detail. That or they skimp on fundamentals. Thank you for being amazing! Stay awesome!

[@radharcanna]

Matt, I just discovered your channel today and I think you’re absolutely brilliant. What I like is that you speak to the beginner or inexperienced woodworker in a non-condescending way. You admit mistakes and don’t come across as a know-it-all, although you’re obviously hugely talented and experienced. This video is a good example of that. I’ve dabbled in woodwork in a very small way in the past but now, coming near retirement, I’m tempted to get into it more seriously. Looking forward to bingeing on your videos!

[@dominikplouffe4191]

Matt, I just cant find the words! Tiny details, things I take for granted, I use my wheel gauges every other day and then knowledge dump. Keep going man, so interesting, fundamental. More, more, more!!

[@BrianThorstad]

I knew there was a reason I joined Matt’s Patrean crew… fantastic focused content. Thank You.

[@0ddSavant]

Woot! I saw a video less than an hour after it was posted. And not just any video, but sometone I really like too! Bucket list item crossed off. Rock on, mate! Cheers from AZ across the pond in the US!

[@facepunchsum1655]

6 months ago I found your videos. Now I have dedicated my garage to wood working. I know it’s easy to fall into the same old same old when you have been doing the same thing for along time. I just want to say thank you for your videos. They have inspired me to expand my skills as a maker. Thank you for all your hard work.

[@stufarnham]

Another solid video, Matt. Marking against the grain was the winner for me.

[@dananicolasmartinez-cheng5338]

Hi Matt, felt the need to say this after watching your outdoor workshop series. Hopefully it helps with your concerns about being perfectionist. We don't watch your videos because you do everything perfectly. We watch your videos because we like you. That's all. We like you.

[@Samessin06]

Just found your channel! I’m so excited to do a dive! I came for the Kats Moses dovetail guide faceoff and staying for the cool carpentry content

[@Citadel1974]

8:15 Just when I thought I had cut myself with every sharp tool in my collection, I found a way to use a marking gauge on my finger. 🙄 It is very sharp and needs to be respected like any other tool. I love the recommendation of elevating the piece and using your bench top so thank you for that

[@1262-f8e]

Great vid! Thx Matt

[@outofmind9222]

Bro I’d like to work with you for a while man, good detailed info that’s important and worth it. Excellent work!

[@carlosimolina]

Regarding woodworking, I'm right handed most of the time (60%-40%) and never guessed how the cutting wheel got loose sometimes... Thank you so much for solving this "mystery"! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Angrymech]

I wish I was as adept at getting the first 45 seconds of this video across to people I've tried to teach (auto repair) Great video!

[@tom314]

I saw the video and thought "I know how to use a marking gauge, nothing new to learn, I've watched all the rest of Matt's videos but it might be entertaining" half way through, "ah, I'll be getting myself a pin marking gauge for some of my work where the lines vanish..." Thanks for the continued education :)

[@stonetemplepyrex4226]

Idk Matt, you may want to revisit this whole "push pull hullabaloo". I've been pushing wheelbarrows for years and you'd have a difficult time convincing me to pull one is better... All in jest, much appreciate the content.

[@andredornelles8014]

Tbh I believe that the whole push/pull debate has to do eyesight. You'd be able to see where the line meets the blade whilst pushing the gauge, but you don't necessarily see that by pulling it. This doesn't seem to be relevant for modern gauges though... If you keep the tool stable by holding it properly on the edge of the material, the line should be predictable really. This debate could be a bit more relevant for traditional gauges on angled positions I assume: pushing the tool above 90° (in reference to the person using the tool) or pulling it below 90°. In the latter case, it could be difficult to see the point of contact between the tool and the wood. I don't think anyone would pull it in an angle above 90°, hopefully :D. This has gotten more specific than I hoped when I started writing this comment. Great videos on this channel!

[@GrantHendrick]

Very helpful tutorial. Thank you.

[@paulone-off7286]

Concise, informative explanation, brilliant. This is going to be helpful when I get started properly

[@Gotmovezlikejagga]

Matt glad to see a bit more of an emphasis on the 'basics". It feels like a return to what made your channel into such a great resource. You're an excellent teacher, skilled and knowledgeable. You've helped me, and many others I am sure, enjoy the hobby by teaching us how to be a better wood workers. Many thanks!

[@vosifle]

Thank you for these great tutorials!

[@rodgerhaynes83]

grain tracking has driven me nuts - thank you so much for sorting this out for me - and glad to see you back online!

[@skippylippy547]

Well done! Now I know a lot more about marking. Thank you Matt. 😃

[@Venomator.]

Thank you Matt, clear, concise and extremely helpful! Learned a great deal, now to put it into practice on my newly acquired Marking Wheel (using your link from another video)… ✅ 👏🏻

[@douglashopkins8070]

I really like your basic skills videos. I think the only ones I like as much are Paul Sellers and the Rennaisance Woodworker. I watched your sawing video this morning and spent the afternoon cutting housing joints. Lots of time time to practise. Last two I cut I didn't even need to clean up the saw cuts with a chisel. Thank you.

[@CannedMan]

I came for the tutorials and now I am subscribed. Watching your videos taught me all the things I wanted to know for setting up _and using_ my plane correctly. Now I am wanting to get a marking gauge, and didn’t even realise there were wrong or bad ways of using them. You are a font of knowledge and a gold standard for teaching. I have saved every single video I have seen of yours in my crafts playlist. Thank you so much! P.S.: That board was not clearly tapered, it just completely screwed with my perspective vision, making one of your arms look really huge and far away. 😂

[@Angeltech32]

Thanks Matt. Very informative.

[@MCsCreations]

Great info, Matt! Thanks a bunch! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@adriengahery9471]

Even a better version of the first video I have seen not too long ago. Great info, nice rythm of explanation, thourough coverage of the topic.

[@justplanebob105]

Thanks so much, Matt. I have marking guages that I avoid using because I struggle with them. This helps a lot.

[@RancidSwine]

These videos are all just excellent

[@woodswanderer7274]

That was very good teaching in my estimation. It mirrored my experience completely. I'm a traditionalist so I continue with a pin gauge or cutting gauge and make it work. You are correct in the fact that a wheel gauge is better but like I said I have been using a pin gauge and cutting for a long time and have come to grips with them and get the results that I want. Thanks!

[@VORONM]

Modern marking gauge veritas leaves a very thin line, which i have to repeat with a pencil. So I bought myself a Japanese cutting gauge with a thick sharp knife. He has a slightly thicker line. Thanks for the video!

[@jayruoshan7174]

Really enjoying the regular uploads, lots of helpful info for starter (on even more experienced) woodworkers. Personally I am woodworking as a subject in school, these videos are helping a huge amount. Keep up the good work :D

[@theofarmmanager267]

I’m delighted that you are able to study woodworking at school - so many schools have stopped it for cost and insurance reasons. You will be able to take your hobby forward as a career or a hobby or just useful when you own a house. You are right - these videos are excellent. I think Matt comes into his own when it comes to cutting through the BS and giving clear, concise lessons. I’ve been a hobby woodworker for over 45 years, building just about everything you can imagine - I find these videos useful because I find that I’ve picked up bad habits through the years and these videos help me get back to basics

[@KieuPho]

Good info. Well done Matt.👍

[@MAKEITSF]

These basic fundamentals videos are great!

[@GraemePayne1967Marine]

Thank you for your excellent explanations! In now have many better ideas for using my marking gages. From a fellow left-handed woodworker.

[@1deerndingo]

I find I'm repeating myself. Great tips. Great video lesson layout. Great delivery.

[@paulbramhall9157]

Matt keep up the excellent videos brilliant as usual.

[@Craftsman1984]

Very handy information, I was struggling with the dang grain, never occured to me to just flip the board. This is perfect, woodworking for dummies before learning the intermediary steps! I know it must suck to be doing fantastic videos and not getting the KZbin algorithm approval of "cool" but your videos really really made a difference for me. Thank you!

[@mdhebert]

I think these latest videos are the most useful and enjoyable ones you've made so far. I even bought a mug, I was feeling so good about them. :) Thanks. [Apologies to anyone you enjoys your more "goofball" videos better.]

[@edfingleton9889]

Loving these Matt, always pick up great tips from your videos

[@5084204]

Funny, two weeks ago I have bought on car boot sale a mortise gauge, not really knowing what's it for and how to use it. :-) Thank you!

[@markgreenwood1105]

Matt Many Thanks. First a request/question/suggestion, what about a session on adhesives. It would be great to have an overview in one place with the when, why, and maybe how for adhesives. The videos have been really inspiring. Unfortunately I experienced the transition from woodwork to CDT in the mid 80’s the change was too great for the teacher at the time and we lost the learning of basic woodworking skills and moved to much focus to design. Your video’s have brought back the joy of wanting to work with wood on more than just DIY needs

[@r.parker1933]

Excellent explanation. Been using these for a while, but I'm always learning new things. And it never ceases to amaze me the things people become convinced can only ever be done one correct way (i.e., the thing about pushing a gauge or never lay a plane on its sole).

[@TheMoonlightCraftsman]

Great information Matt

[@bazanderson8283]

what an excellent and wonderfully informative video, it's foundation skills like these that are so often overlooked, thanks for sharing + u got a new subscriber 👍

[@pjhalchemy]

Once again Matt you've brought the Sense to common tool usage. As an "Old Instructor" I really appreciate the way you develop the curriculum for these and the wordsmith in you lights a candle for many, I'm sure by the comments below! Thanks for what you bring to the community and me as a geezer who appreciates quality educational content!

[@Mark_Wood]

Fantastic recommendations and instruction! Thanks!

[@athmostafa2462]

Thanks for the info 🙂 help me alot .

[@snortyrocks]

I just found your channel and I have to say the way you explain things is SO VERY helpful!! You do an amazing job! Thank you for your hard work in making these videos!!!

[@jelcodiekr1408]

Nice video. With the modern style I every so often unscrew the wheel and touch it up on my stones to keep it nice and crisp. I also like to lightly color in the lines with a pencil so i can see it easier

[@davidclark9086]

Very informative and well made video.

[@מעייןהמלבלבתחייםםםם]

Thanks, great video, very important content.

[@laubbub1960]

Matt i really like your videos and enjoy watching them. I have learnt a lot of them. But i wonder if you will show us how to sharpen a western style handsaw? That would be really useful.

[@richs5422]

Nice! More to it than I thought.

[@Aprendiz-de-Marceneiro]

Thanks for the info help me alot

[@VivienLEGER]

hello matt, thanks for the vid! Any realisation coming up after your trip in the us? :)

[@MichaelReall-sp1pp]

Well done!

[@machinists-shortcuts]

Hi Matt. I'm going to make a wheel marking gauge with a rotating spindle so the wheel rolls on the surface. If the tool is made to a high precision where the blade runs perfectly true, would this be an advantage?

[@perfectjays]

Start a dam media/video production company on the side already! I just started the video and I’m gonna speak for myself when the video is done and say, great work, I love how you’re putting everything together. Very good at explaining it for the new-comer, or for the advanced person and revising it for them

[@tim5cad203]

I need one of those scratchit devices for sheet metal. The wooden ones ware out too quickly.

[@TheEphemeris]

I don't think it was mentioned, but a sharp marking guage is important too! Just like a knife or chisel, a dull tool leads to errors, excessive force and injuries. Keep you tools sharp and make them work for you! :)

[@JeanMinutile]

Excellent video as always ;-)

[@dpmeyer4867]

Thanks

[@Exodus5K]

Matt, what's your read on the Titemark versus the Veritas with micro adjust?

[@stopabusingstatistics6291]

09:20 You should make a compilation of all the woodworking topics that lead to gnashing of teeth as a humor piece. Something about people getting super upset over a plane being placed on its sole just did it for me 😂

[@cleonwalters4093]

Excellent

[@eggthehelper4555]

Matt i recently bought some axminster rider chisels i followed your sharpening ritual and then when i came to text them out i cut some half lap joints and a medium size nick was in the blade how did this happen

[@eggthehelper4555]

I also wasnt cutting large amounts of material just chopping out edge by edge

[@sisiraarun6831]

Nice shirt 👕✌️👽

[@jbranstetter04]

Yes, I would say concentrate on keeping the tool pressed against the edge of the material. Even if you end up not making a mark because you were not pressing the cutter/pin into the material, the worst thing that happens is that you have to continue trying to make the line, as opposed to having your line being crooked.

[@gav2759]

Well well. I have to say re the pusher/puller debate, I couldn't tell which I was, before grabbing a few gauges in order to find out. The results are in! I push a traditional gauge. Or at least move it away from me. Index finger on the fence and thumb on the beam beside pin/cutter. It should be said that the pin follows the beam in either direction so both are effectively pulls. Low and behold, I find I pull a wheel gauge towards me. All this has been a revelation . I would have been taught how to use the traditional gauge, but beyond the mists of time. My adoption of the wheeled version seems to have been accompanied by little analysis.

[@jimpowell6102]

Almost 2 months, come on Matt time for another video!

[@CannedMan]

What are the key differences between the Veritas and the Titemark?

[@yohannsantos4901]

Hi Matt! My wheel mariking gauge has been bought from Rutlands there in UK, but the screw is not inset into the wheel, which makes this marking gauge just garbage... Any specific you would recomend? Thanks :)

[@thenorwegianmaker]

As a left-handed woodworker, I actually had to learn to use the marking gauge in my right hand. Pushing the gauge does not feel right and I feel I have less control.

[@legodragon2363]

Im watching this for homework (I have a wood working class). The assignment said to find a video and learn stuff and i was like, hmm who am i subscribed too?

[@joel.perler]

Funny, pretty much one hour before this video dropped i used a marking gauge for the first time, and was struggling a bit ×D

[@simonspoke]

My eyesight is getting worse as I'm getting older and I've got to the stage that I can't really see the lines that I mark properly. I could go deeper with the marking to make it more pronounced, but I don't want unsightly marks ruining my work. So what depth is ok? And are there any tips to see your marks easier?

[@bengeorge4437]

Use a pencil to fill in the cut line and I usually only do 3-5 passes or until the line is indexable for a chisel/knife

[@diether2423]

Sometimes I simply put some masking tape on the wood, and then score my lines in the tape. Makes it a lot easier to see, especially in darker wood and along the grain, or on end grain. I think the 'inaccuracy' I get because of the thickness of the tape, will be less than the possible inaccuracies because I can't see the lines properly...

[@michaeldoto4673]

Justbeing, I’m in the same boat with my eyesight. I use The brand Optivisor which is a headband in conjunction with my glasses to magnify the close up details. I highly recommend them.

[@jbranstetter04]

Actually the Stanley number 61 marking gauge directions tell you to "push the gauge forward." This is the old vintage one with the wood thumb screw. Perhaps they changed these directions later on.

[@kennydeary957]

I've tried to get this marking gauge ..no look as yet 🤷‍♂️

[@williamn01]

Get yourself the jessem sabre best marking gauge out !

[@strixflammea6540]

Why do some of them don‘t have a scale? Won‘t that lead to imprecise measurements?

[@stella.r2708]

Yay! It's the southpaw revolution! Tools are built for right handed people and us lefties have had to adjust. Now.. you right lot can adjust to a left-handed woodworker's tips. (Insert evil laugh)*

[@billbris]

Matt, you have found your stride again.

[@danielosmundsen9864]

How to turn correctly next?

[@VadimBiliy]

👍👍👍👍

[@jerrybrown1446]

What kind of sick bastard pushes their marking gauge?!

[@johanneswerner1140]

Those who find it works better for them, I guess. The tip with "working against the grain" also tells you sometimes the awkward direction is better /easier. Same with being able to saw or drive nails with your off hand.

[@comms9803]

I hate marking gages

[@JWick-ry7wf]

Build something and show tips and tricks

[@bigdaddy1217]

How about less how to and more project. Thanks

[@robertberger8642]

Excellent