John keep them coming. I enjoy watching you create these things.

This is just down right needed in my shop. Thanks for this John!

Excellent as usual John. Making tools from scraps is the best!

I love how the little fingers are more stout than the ones you can buy in the stores. I have a Stanley version and the fingers are constantly bending or just fall out. This seems like it would really stand the time and hold together. Great video, I always enjoy them John!

I'm gonna make several sized ones of these. A big one would be great for car body parts. Cool and easy project.

Thank you sir! Great idea. Now to scale it up.😎

An excellent project. I have one with metal fingers but stopped using it because it bruised some soft finishes. If I ever get a table saw (hard to justify for a turner) I'll make one of these. Best Wishes, Brendan.

Great gauge, reminds me of my junior high shop class intro to tools! Had to watch it!!!! Thanks for you teachings!

I would wax the individual sticks so they slide better and also the two pieces holding it together. Wax makes it slide easier.

Having watched you John for the last 2 years now and watching this video today I can tell you this video is awesome... John Heisz, super canadian lol.

$1 DIY Contour Gauge using BBQ skewers & cardboard! Genius

Great tip using the thin rip guide.

Wish you would've shown more of fiddling, and also, use a light dusting of spray paint to remind you which side is up... An old metal one I picked up at a yard sale had protractor angles inscribed. Believe it or not, it's amazing how simple it is to line up for weird corners, just knowing you're 30* or 45* off center when you transpose takes a ton of guesswork out of it, and so simple to add them..

i imagine a large Wooden Contour Gauge big and square for faces and lasts of shoes, verry nice, thanks for sharing

Awesome stuff sir...this is well needed in a lot of home remodeling trades

Great video! Your shop (and your knowledge) is the stuff of my dreams!

John, Very useful in the shop, thanks for posting

Congratulations for your work!

super awesome DIY tool mr. Heisz! love it!

love that you are making your own tools! :)

Steel contour gauges found at the hardware store are fine, but in many cases just too small. This is a must project for me. Now I will build to need. Thanks! :o)

Honestly, I've never seen one of these! What a great idea and great project. Thanks, John.

with a little candle wax works better, thanks for your ideas simple and fantastic!

Muy clara las imágenes y muy interesante todos sus trabajos gracias por todo lo que nos enseña

that is a clever little tool. nice!

Great idea. Thanks John.

I don't know if this would've helped, but you could've made a small "dado" (4 1/2 inch long by something like 1/4 inch deep) to help retain the pieces in the "gauge" so they never fall out of it... obviously this would reduce the travel of the parts itself but you could make them longer or narrow the 2 cross sections... great idea though :)

Cool project John. The store bought one that General Tools makes has fallen apart on me more than a few times!

good idea for expensive add-on

Great idea! Thanks for sharing. Thinking a couple or three packs of lollipop sticks would work well as fingers?

Very nice. I've been thinking on a similar one for ship modelling purposes. You say «cheapy to buy», but here, when you have a 500 € income monthly, 47€ for something that will not increase your home economy, is considered 'very expensive'. Well, the world is what it is...It's great that we can find ways to go around crisis. Thanks for sharing.

I thought for sure you were going to use popsicle sticks. Awesome video

Wow, brilliant video, I loved that!!

if the small sticks don't have any thing to stop them from traveling completely through the 2 retaining pieces your going to be playing pick up sticks. If before cutting them you rabbited the entire thing except a small piece on either end, then they would stay held in securely and you could easy off the pressure on them, until it was time to lock them in place. All that aside would have made the fingers out of something a lot thinner, like a cut sheet of tin, it would be way more accurate.

great work, as usual

Cool! I have not seen one of those in years. Cip Mendez

Great idea and money saver!

Great jop l will do one thanks

use some felt strips to hold the internal strips.

Thanks. I wonder if it would make the fitting less critical if the insides of the retaining strips were lined with felt? (1/4", give or take.)

nice job John should last a life time hey don't lend it to anyone

nice project!

At the prices these gauges sell for, this would be a great project. However, I'm not clear on what you mean at the end by "narrower." What needs to be narrower - the outer boards which hold everything together, or the contour strips, or what? Or do you mean that the overall gauge should be shorter, say 10" overall rather than 12 or 15?

Great vid John. Been subbed to you for a while now and I really like your content. :)

Hm, if you don't have a good accurate table saw (like myself), I'm thinking popsicle sticks would work also

Nice John, I assume you were in a project when you needed this. That's usually the way it is with me.

Soap dust between the strips should also help with better motion.

Very clever...thanks

muy buena idea.¿funcionara con palitos de helados ? tengo miles

Good project. Maybe some wax on the fingers would make it slide easier.

bravo.. ottima idea

Great tool! I didn't even know about such. Thank you a lot for sharing this!

VERY VERY NICE.john

Nice but what keeps them from coming out and causing a problem

Нужная вещь. Интересно на сколько длинной можно сделать подобную , и как поведёт она себя при высокой влажности воздуха ?

Perfecto! excelente vídeo.

I wonder if this can be done with less sawing using popsicle sticks.

bonsoir vos idées sont tres bien eric longuet

Professional Shop, i'll be using popsicle sticks as a quick cheap alternative project with daughter, talk about free labor LOL Nah it's called quality time. i Like, OLE!

Maybe it is easier to compress the whole stack sideways instead of the edges. This would make a consistent pressure at any strip. Maybe as an Addition to the actual design.

You can buy one from any store which sells ceramic tiles.

Хорошая штука на монтажах, для переноса р-ров

Just wondering when you sanded the fingers did you sand them leaving about an eighth from the tips so when it was used they couldn't be pushed out of the frame in case it dropped on something. Looks like a wonderful tool, I am so making one of these or maybe a few so I have different lengths for longer or shorter projects. Thanks John

Is this a suitable project for paddle-pop sticks or are they too thick/small?

Do adjacent slits bind on each other much? Have you done anything to alleviate this since building it?

Very pixelized... is there a 4K version?

Thank you You are greate

What if you glued a strip of felt or cork to the back of the maple strips?

As many people are saying, using lolly sticks would make this a less miserable experience.

The best 👏👊

Excelente !!!

Cool.

what about using popsicle sticks?

EXELENTE ...!

what if we just use ice cream stick, so we have less things to do

Better idea...popsicle sticks! ....OOPS....just scanned the comments and see other folks had the same idea...

NICEEEEEE

Why not use ice cream stick? 😉

Подрезал у wolfcraft!

Why not just buy Ice-cream sticks? Trim them flat.

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