Sneak Peek: The Newest Tool
Added 2024-03-15 13:30:37 +0000 UTCFriends:
Tomorrow, we release the newest tool from Compass Rose. It's an exciting time around here.
I thought it would be fun to give you a little teaser. Here's a (deliberately) tiny detail from the product. Any guesses on what it is?
I would like to say you'll never guess, but you all have surprised me before. One hint: we invented this tool, so it has a traditional function, but it's a totally new shape and design.
Good luck!
--Rex
Comments
Psst! Like I said!
Larry W Thayer
2024-03-16 15:39:12 +0000 UTCI'm thinking a block for the bottom of a leg vise as an alternative to parallel guides or the wedge that Rex used to use
Richard Broadbent
2024-03-15 23:06:48 +0000 UTCOffset marking gauge for drawing lines without measuring. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804630356241.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt
James Carey
2024-03-15 22:03:41 +0000 UTC?Mortise guide with stepped cheeks for different thicknesses.
Michael Rentsch
2024-03-15 21:47:54 +0000 UTCMaybe a cocktail bar that folds into a ladder!
Thomas Hverring
2024-03-15 21:33:39 +0000 UTC@Laura, are you any relation to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Chalifoux
Sean McGown
2024-03-15 19:48:43 +0000 UTCOoh, interesting. I was thinking along the lines of many people here that it’s some kind of depth gauge, but it would almost fit Compass Rose better if it’s something specifically for hand tool woodworkers.
Max Goldstein
2024-03-15 18:43:20 +0000 UTCI’d guess an anti-wracking device for a vise.
Alex R
2024-03-15 17:49:21 +0000 UTCOh that’s an interesting way of using it. But wouldn’t you want more steps if you were using it for a lathe? I can imagine for a table saw that big steps around 1/4”, 3/8”, 1/2” depth would be useful, but a lathe is often for taking off tiny fractions of an inch. I thought for a moment it could be used to set marking gauges or router planes, but those need the same infinite adjustability rather than steps.
Mark H
2024-03-15 17:08:32 +0000 UTCI agree it looks like a gaging tool for setting calibers which then would be used to check the diameter in wood turning project.
Richard C von Brecht
2024-03-15 16:43:35 +0000 UTCWe can only see half; the other half goes up exponentially
Mark H
2024-03-15 16:24:26 +0000 UTCCould be a size reference tool though! Those metal set up blocks are slightly expensive for aluminum. If this was a hard plastic or metal step tool that would make sense.
Ian greene
2024-03-15 16:06:12 +0000 UTCThis is a stumper! As others have pointed out, it's 3D printed, so it's likely prototype for a tool that will go into production in some other material. I think the holes in the stepped parts go all the way through, and are intended to be used with clamps. It's possible that in use the tool would be oriented vertically, instead of horizontally, as it's shown, but I don't think so. The step graduations seem to be even, so whatever offset it provides is either a universal measurement, or - more likely - the actual measurement doesn't matter per se, it's the convenience of the offset that matters. The stepped elements seem relatively tall, which is throwing me off a bit, but it's hard to tell scale from the photo. Given all that, my finalist guesses are, in order of least likely to most likely: 3. A glue-up accessory to stack assemblies so they're offset. 🫤 2. A clamp-on bench stop for planing or sawing. 🤨 1. A shooting board or shooting board accessory, because: shooting boards. 😎 I bet it's none of the above, but whatever it is, it will be really cool!
Laura Chalifoux
2024-03-15 15:58:29 +0000 UTCAn apartment complex for fleas?
mmgross144
2024-03-15 15:52:44 +0000 UTCI can see no other option.
Larry W Thayer
2024-03-15 15:21:28 +0000 UTCThis is what I want it to be! Perfect for that well-deserved post-work session chill out. Naturally, we'd have to build a custom, dust-proof, fold-out cabinet with a cocktail bar plus storage for comfy folding chairs and end table(s). I'm sure Rex will release the plans and tutorial videos soon.
Laura Chalifoux
2024-03-15 15:12:09 +0000 UTCNah, it would have to be a lot bigger for that... 😉
Laura Chalifoux
2024-03-15 15:03:19 +0000 UTCI'd agree with 1 at a glance - but I'd not be surprised to be wrong either
Caillin Campsie
2024-03-15 15:00:54 +0000 UTCIt's used for laying out mortises and/or testing the fit of tenons
Vincent Chov
2024-03-15 14:56:43 +0000 UTCIs it a traditional pan flute?
Mark H
2024-03-15 14:49:22 +0000 UTCLooks like a depth guide for a tablesaw, but that seems unlikely for this channel
Mark H
2024-03-15 14:47:45 +0000 UTCI'm just gonna fall back to my childhood art class projects... it's an ashtray?
W Chance
2024-03-15 14:41:42 +0000 UTCAide in clamping or making our own domino from sawdust😅
Joe Meyer
2024-03-15 14:36:28 +0000 UTCWow, it's a template to graph my spending on woodworking tools!
Sean McGown
2024-03-15 14:31:12 +0000 UTCI also thought it was a depth gauge for plane irons and chisels.
Gerald Eddy
2024-03-15 14:06:32 +0000 UTCIt reminds me very slightly of something like a Featherboard. Now those are usually used on Table Saws etc., but are there similar uses for a Hand Tool Woodworker? The open cells just look like something designed to compress a little...
Rob Weir
2024-03-15 13:56:46 +0000 UTCIt's clearly 3D printed, and while it's stepped, the edges are rounded and chamfered, so it's either not a precision tool (i.e. setup guide) or it's zoomed in ridiculously close. Nor is it solid, so it's not something that directly takes a substantial amount of abuse in the form of striking. It looks like it hooks on with a handle in the back. I'm gonna go with a paring guide for chisels.
Ethan Chitty
2024-03-15 13:53:29 +0000 UTCJust a 3D printer? 😛
Daniel Tickle
2024-03-15 13:49:11 +0000 UTCOffset setup thingamjiggy
Rick Prosser
2024-03-15 13:45:26 +0000 UTCYou've gone full power tool and it's a table saw push stick.
Geoffrey Wilson
2024-03-15 13:41:23 +0000 UTC1. It is a graduated drop in spreader for the non squeezing side of your vice to avoid racking. 2. It is a place to insert your chewing tobacco to make you chew and work for it. 3. It is a noise dampener to make it ok to do shop work when the bride would rather you were sleeping. 4. It is a form to pound dowel rod through to make it into rectangular shapes. 5. Impregnated with sand, it helps, by rubbing, remove rust from equipment and tools. 6. It's a pad to place tools on you might normally be afraid of dulling by placing them on the bench. 7. It's a pad you place over the intake of your dust collection device to replace the sound of sucking with the sound of a locomotive crossing a main intersection. 8. It is a tarp used to drop over those porch bandits taking your mail order tools. 9. It is an environmentally safe air circulating pad for the seat on your bicycle generator used to power your shop tools. 10. It is to put over your screen window to permit air circulation with all but the most direct rain eliminated. 11. It is a spongy floor covering to keep feet and back from hurting and tiring over time. 12. It is a grid through which to shake floor sweepings to find that darn wedding ring you said you lost in the shop instead of admitting you lost it putting dollar bills places you NEVER should have been. 13. It is a film to place over your television set to turn left leaning news into something more on the right. 14. They are the New and Improved "Rexo Blocks" (replacing Leggo) to build anything you forgot to buy last time you were allowed to go out to an auction. 15. It is padding to protect the things you send back that vendors send you to help them sell stuff. 16. It is a super magnified view of the safety glasses that prohibit the Guma-Rays generated by snagging your plane in pine sap. 17. It is the weave in the protective vest needed to fend off things flying from kickback. 18. A reusable coffee filter. 19. Drive belt for a bench top hand drive grinder. 20. Goes right from the freezer to the front of the box fan to cool your brow. Otherwise, I can't think of a thing. I just know we need these things and Dad's who have everything already will get stuff like this for Father's Day.
Larry W Thayer
2024-03-15 13:40:19 +0000 UTCI will be interested to see what it is… no idea what it could be
The Super-wrench Garage
2024-03-15 13:34:36 +0000 UTCAside from the 3d printed manufacture I cannot tell the use
George Ford
2024-03-15 13:34:16 +0000 UTCIce cube tray for workshop cocktails?
Thomas Hverring
2024-03-15 13:33:55 +0000 UTCChisel sharpening angle depth gauge?
Brian Suker
2024-03-15 13:32:40 +0000 UTC
