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

I build small keepsake boxes and use two of these on a regular basis. I have the more modern roller type but these give a very clean, precise cut line every time. Yes, they are a bit old school, but the design has been in use for hundreds of years. great product!!

I’ve been a professional furniture maker for 45 years . I have some expensive marking gauges including the latest ones. This one is better, and cuts a cleaner line than any of them for $20.

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 :)

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.

Very handy, easy to use. Definitely has a place in workshop.

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.

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.

Product has that Japanese simplicity. well made and quickly delivered.