At the WoodWorks show in York, PA, I saw Frank Klausz had a cam lock (twist locking) marking gauge on his workbench, and an old article from some magazine on how to build one – I don’t recall if he wrote that article but I suspect he did.
I’ve tried to search the web, and managed to only find on site that has a short article on making one (below)
http://www.geoffswoodwork.co.uk/cam_gauge.htm
but nothing else, and the search/index functions on some of the other magazine websites is mostly pretty worthless. I’m pretty sure the article wasn’t from FW. Maybe it was woodworker’s journal or american woodworker (back when it was a decent magazine before whoever is running it now bought it). Now I wish I had written it down.
Does anyone here now of where I can find that article? If its a really old issue, I’d like to get a copy of that article – otherwise I might be able to locate a back issue in a local woodworking stire or maybe ebay. But I need to know where that article occured. I’d like to have a try at making one myself, but I’m hoping for some more detail and better drawings than are in the link I have above.
thanks in advance for any help here.
Edited 11/18/2007 8:05 pm ET by jquinn
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There IS one in Fine Woodworking- #39 (Mar-April 1983), p.14.
I tried to make one, and never completed it. I made the cam arm OK, but I didn't clamp the fence down when I drilled the hole for the arm. The hole ended up crooked, and I never fixed it.
Good luck with yours!
Rick W
thanks - I found one without too much trouble on ebay, but turned out not to be the article I was looking for. I found on woodcentral's message board that the article I was looking for was in AMerican Woodworker, Dec. 94, issue #42 (back when AW was a reasonably good publication).
I'm pretty sure I have this issue, so I will have to dig it out and have a try at making one for myself.
Edited 11/25/2007 12:59 pm ET by jquinn
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