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MT Center Gauge

MT Center Gauge

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When you drop the MT Center Gauge on the edge of your stock and squeeze the two sides together, the marking bar is perfectly centered on your stock. It can’t help it. It’s the simple geometry of a parallelogram. With a hole milled precisely in the center of each bar, all you have to do to mark the center of any piece of stock is place a pencil in the hole and slide.  And, to lay out a mortise or tenon centered on your stock, just mark both sides of the bar. It's that simple. Each of the stainless-steel interchangeable marking bars has a specific width.

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Inch Only Set
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Deluxe Set (Inch & Metric)

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MT Center Gauge

MT Center Gauge

Regular price $59.99
Regular price $59.99 Sale price $79.00
SAVE 24% Sold out

Woodpeckers limited warranty

Materials and workmanship are guaranteed for the life of your tool. If you are dissatisfied for any reason, return the tool within 30 days of purchase for your money back.

Keep yourself CENTERED

The MT Center Gauge eliminates the guesswork from precisely centering mortise and tenon joints. The precision-machined parallel arms quickly adjust to the stock thickness, placing the marking bar right in the middle. Just scribe each side of the bar and you’re done. Each marking bar is precision-machined from stainless steel (ideal for working with marking knives), and each has a pencil guide at its exact center. The parallel arms open to accommodate stock up to 2" thick.

Choose from four mortise and tenon widths (five for the metric system). Changing the width of your mortise and tenon layout couldn’t be easier. Simply remove the two thumb screws holding the marking bar in place and switch to the width you want. The imperial set comes with 1/4", 3/8", 7/16", and 1/2" marking bars. Or, if you’re like most woodworkers these days and work in both inch and metric depending on the project, the Deluxe Kit includes all nine marking bars. These are all the sizes you need for stock from 1/2" to a full 1-1/2" thick and more. 

The MT Center Gauge has been a popular OneTIME Tool over its handful of releases. Now, we decided to make it part of our permanent lineup. Like all of our tools, the MT Center Gauge is precisely machined and carefully inspected in our Strongsville, Ohio factory (just south of Cleveland).

WARNING! This product can expose you to chemicals, including chromium, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov

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Center Mortise & Tenon Layout with Confidence 

Drop the MT Center Gauge on your stock, squeeze, and scribe. Interchangeable stainless-steel bars center mortise and tenon layouts quickly, with pencil guides for precise centerlines.

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AMERICAN MADE PRECISION

Our tools are precisely machined and carefully inspected at our state-of-the-art facility in Strongsville, Ohio.