Logan Cabinet Shoppe

Wicked cool.

Thanks Stephen! You can't really see it in the pic, but yes, the tongue is proud of the leg on the top by about 3/16" or so to allow for easier truing of the square in the future should it need adjustment.

As for the marking gauge, the fence does indeed lock in place to the beam with a captive wedge. I copied the design from an article in Popular Woodworking back from 2006. Dean Jansa copied the gauge from the Benjamin Seaton tool chest and wrote the article. It's an ingenious design as it allows use single handed, including setting the fence and locking the wedge. Just use your index finger to position the fence to your stock, push the wedge with your thumb to fix it to the beam and then give it a little tap on the bench to tighten the wedge. I've made almost a dozen already and really like them. I also made one with two pins on each of two faces of the beam, permanently fixed to the widths of my mortise chisels. This way all I have to set is the fence to scribe a tenon. No need to set the pins of a moving pin gauge.

hi Bob I stumbled on your blog a couple weeks ago and have been enjoying it alot. thanks for the information, very straight forward. Do you have any plans on doing a pod on making some of the tools that you have made. I hope so. again keep up the good work. looking foward to more.