Marking Steel by Hock Tools

178mm Long, 6 mm Wide (max), 1.6mm Thick, Weight 14 grams, Single-sided spear point blade.

To overcome the issue with achieving marking of fine pins in dovetail joints and other very delicate marking or cutting situations

Advantages are

• at 1.6mm thick it can get pretty much anywhere in narrow spacing.
• it is very light
• easily held in "pencil grip"
• the bevels are not thick so they can easily be resharpened
• it is thick enough so it will not flex, and then stray from the line wishing to be marked.
• the spear point allows marking on both sides of narrow pins.
• it is not expensive, so if it is not used all the time it does not rob value funds from other purchases.

Tip: if you wish to make your own marking/cutting gauge a shortened marking steel will serve well. The following gauge was featured in Fine Woodworking #261 May/June 2017