Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Woodpeckers freshly introduced its upgraded DelVe Square. The original 3-1/2″ DelVe Square has been one of our most popular tools, since its first appearance as a One Time Tool in 2015. Now the company has introduced the 6″ DelVe Square that is an equally efficient tool just available in a bigger size.
Developed in concert with a furniture-maker in North Carolina, the DelVe Square is perfect for laying out joinery and setting up machinery. It is of perfect weight as it is milled from aircraft-grade aluminum. Its versatility makes the DelVe a trusted companion for layout, assembly and installation. Scales on the blade are laser-engraved to an accuracy of ± 0.004” total accumulated error. Precisely machined scribing guides on 1/8” centers enable you to strike lines parallel to the edge of your stock quickly and accurately. And the squareness of the DelVe is held to Woodpeckers stringent standard of ±.0085°.
The base is offset with 3/8” and 1/4” on either side of the blade which is perfect for 3/4” stock. One can easily mark 1/4” from both edges for a mortise or tenon, or flip it around to the 3/8” leg and quickly find dead center. The DelVe Square’s base wraps around your workpiece making it simple to mark both the face and edge at the same time.
These are not simply squares. In addition to the 45⁰ and 90⁰ edges, angles are graduated along the hypotenuse…in 1° increments on the 6” version and 5° increments on the 3.5”. Both squares have additional graduations for octagonal layout at 22.5° and 67.5°.
With a DelVe, one will always have a go-to set-up blocks right at their fingertips. The base is 1/4” thick and 3/4” wide and the blade is 1/8” thick. Both models include a wall-mountable Rack-It to keep your DelVe right in plain sight and ready to go to work.
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