Crown 138 Rosewood Marking Gauge Woodworking Tool

The Crown 138 Marking Gauge is a traditional woodworking layout tool designed for scribing parallel lines along the grain of a workpiece. Built from kiln-dried rosewood with brass-plated fittings, it offers the kind of tactile quality and visual appeal that many woodworkers expect from a hand tool they will use daily. The brass thumbscrew provides firm, repeatable locking pressure on the fence, keeping your set distance consistent across multiple marks without slipping.

As a single-pin marking gauge, the Crown 138 excels at tasks like marking lines for ripping, laying out rabbets, and transferring measurements from one piece to another. Its compact size — just over 10 inches in package length and 0.6 pounds — makes it unobtrusive on a crowded workbench. While it lacks the dual pins of a dedicated mortise gauge, its simplicity is also its strength: there is one pin to sharpen, one adjustment to make, and very little that can go wrong. For woodworkers who value well-made traditional hand tools, the Crown 138 is a straightforward, dependable choice.