Ratings & Reviews for General Tools & Instruments 6.0-in Stainless steel Contour Gauge

Contour Gauge

Very well made and easy to use. Accurate and holds the shape of the contour while you transfer it to your cut. It needs to be stored with your precision tools as not to bend the tangs.

This is yet another tool that I am satisfied with from GRIZZLY thats useful in my work

Worked just as it should . I would recommend this product.

Guage

The fingers were very loose so I didn’t really get good contour readings

Special Needs

Used this device to recreate base board countour's allow a bookcase end caps to sit flat against a wall.

Works

Works fine Only con is steel splines can cross on another

Very helpful tool

Bought to help cut difficult patterns in flooring and moldings, dlsabed me a lot of time

Simple and fine detail

Multiple fingers allows finer copying of profiles.

Just right

This is a perfect for getting the exact profile copy. I had one for years and bent the wires. Had to buy another. An essential tool in the box.

I can measure around corners

I was trying to measure around a musket barrel to cut openings In a supporting cross piece in a wooden rifle box used to transport the musket to Civil War reenactments. I wanted a snug fit and couldn't figure out how to actually measure around the barrel and around the stock to get that snug fit. This contour gauge lets me mark off the exact size so the openings are perfectly custom made for each rifle. I like it. It works. I wish the end wires were stiffer so they would help hold the shape too....

Poor device

Pins distort--do not slide easily --difficult to work with. Will probably return it!

Did the job but not like the old one like the one grand pa had

Needs HD

For copying crown and similar trim, there isn't high enough detail to make this worth it. It'll get the approximate shape, but not enough detail to determine an ogee from and ogee and a fillet... which is why one would need this. Eyeballing the trim and sketching it on a piece of paper would accomplish more than this would get you. There also isn't a way to lock the pins in place once you have the general shape you want, so should it be accidentally bumped on the way to the trim department, you ...

Great tool if you know how to use it

This is a good tool for tile work as well as other jobs if you want to replicate the shape of moldings or find the profile of something. I have used it for guitar profiles as well as moldings.