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Inspired by Burton LeGeyt's router base.

I just epoxied the wood blocks to the aluminum. If I want to refine it later, it won't be too difficult to remove them.

Kevin Looker

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I'm not a luthier.
I'm just a guy who builds guitars in his basement.
It's better than playing golf.

I use these cheapo digital tire tread depth gauges that you can get from the bay or amazon for about $10. I glue them to the tool or even use rare earth magnets for temporary attachment. The nice thing about them is they can be zeroed out at any point so no more math. The plunger stays in contact with the other part by gluing a small rare earth magnet to it. Works on routers, lathes, etc.

I like your magnet idea but don't follow you on the zeroing out.

My dial indicators zero out by rotating the dial & locking into a new position, and my favorite feature, no batteries!

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I'm not a luthier.
I'm just a guy who builds guitars in his basement.
It's better than playing golf.

Those are good ideas! I have just been doing it by fractions of turns. But this seems like a way cooler idea. I bought a whole stack cheep digital gauges for just this sort of thing.

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http://www.Harvestmoonguitars.com

Just push the zero button.

Almost three years later, how are the tire gauges holding up?

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Measure Twice,

Karl Borum

Nice! Thanks for posting that.

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Jim Watts
http://jameswattsguitars.com

Just fine.

THanks. I have dozens of uses for these, I'm going to give them a whirl!

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Measure Twice,

Karl Borum

I also use this same gauge to measure x-axis movement on my micro metal lathe. I glued some tiny rare earth magnets on the back of the gauge and just set it down on the lathe bed behind the carriage. Works great.