NEW Products from Veritas

The Veritas Small Scraping Plane is a great tool for the final smoothing of small, flat surfaces, even highly figured timber, or small areas of difficult grain within a larger surface.

The scraping plane comes into action after the surface has been prepared as well as possible using a finely tuned smoothing plane. What the scraping plane does is to replace the need for sanding prior to applying a finish. Because the scraping plane cuts the wood fibres rather than tearing them, it will further bring out the beauty of the wood grain, rather than mute it as sandpaper would. This plane is supplied with a 50mm by 1mm thick high-carbon steel blade with its cutting edge ground at 45°. The pitch, or blade angle, is 20° forward from vertical. Depth of cut is regulated by applying camber to the blade. By slightly bowing or arching the blade, you also eliminate ridges in the work surface caused by blade corners.

The Veritas Wheel Marking Gauges solve both problems found when using a typical marking gauge. The hardened steel wheel cutter scribes perfectly at any point of its circumference. It cuts the wood fibres cleanly, even on cross grain. The wheel's single-sided bevel also pulls the gauge face against the stock, maintaining accuracy. Its cutting edge is at the end of the rod so it's useful for transferring dimensions such as tenon shoulder and mortise depth. The wheel retracts into the face of the gauge for storage and protection. The gauges are very easy to set, since each has an internal O-ring to keep light but constant friction on the rod.

The standard marking gauge is a great workhorse, a second model with a body fitted with fine micro-adjustment is also available.

Standard and micro-adjust gauges are available with
three rod variations:

   Plain

   Imperial

   Metric

The rod of the Imperial gauge is graduated to 6 inches in 16ths.

The metric version has graduations to 150mm.

The thick blade, carefully machined lever cap and blade bed all combine to produce chatter-free cutting in virtually all conditions. The 3.2mm (0.125”) thick blade (A2 tool steel) is seated at 45° to the sole. The ductile cast iron body is fitted with African rosewood handles, shaped for comfort and control, offering several ways to grip the tool comfortably with no corners or edges to cause discomfort when either pulling or pushing. The toe provides a convenient thumb rest that allows the user to achieve an unusual degree of control for fine work. The twin adjustment thumb-wheels quickly and accurately control the depth of cut and skew. Overall length 470mm, blade width 65mm, weight 600g.