8 inch Parallel Crossed Caliper

Excelente

Very high quality.

The scribe tool appears to be built well, not as though it will be abused.Operates nicely and makes good lines. The marking rod is adjustable longer or shorter depending on the piece you are trying to scribe.The drawback to this is the scribe rod, it is soft and the tip wears down from a very sharp point to a blunt edge on the first or second scribe.Stock up on tips or try to reshape the original one. I still find the tool worth having.

Works great

This is a wonderful tool for doing scribe line layouts. It is very accurate and easy to use. I always cringe when I see someone using a regular precision caliper to scribe a measured line as this wears and dulls the corner of the jaw and subjects the caliper to forces it was not designed for. The carbide scriber on this makes a sharper line and does not wear. The caliper is ruled for millimeters and fraction inches to 1/128th. I would have preferred decimal inches but I just convert to mm and get on with life. This comes with a spare carbide scribe pin as these are very hard but consequently brittle and will break if dropped on the scriber. These pins are only about $2.43 each and I picked up 3 just in case.For simple marking jobs this is way easier than hauling out the surface plate and dial height gauge.

It took scissors and a razor knife to get it out of the umpteen layers of taped plastic that was wrapped and folded then wrapped again and taped some more, then there was the holster and inside that was the tool in it’s own protective sleeve. On first use it’s very gritty and very stiff but is also coated with a thin cosmoline like substance. After disassembling, wiping down with alcohol and then a few drops of Marvel Mystery Oil it is still just about as gritty as before. The machining marks show it was polished but it’s not real smooth, still it is usable. The roller wheel would barely turn at first but a few drops of oil and plenty of spinning it and debris came out eventually leaving that operating pretty smooth.The graduations are excellent, cut by laser deep enough they have a tactile feel as you rub a thumb across them.All in all for $20 it will do fine I think.

Works Good, although the price point is usually a factor in almost every Amazon review out there. I would like to attempt to not be reliant on the metric.. As far as the tool is concerned, it is sturdily built, the markings are accurate, the scribe awl is adjustable/removable. However the tool does need a little tuning, the ways and gib need to be de-burred and the gib screw head is a little small, not so much in tightening but more for backing it off. My fix for the smaller head was to drill (for Interference fit) out a brass melt-in nut, press it over the head of the aforementioned gib screw & then proceeded to silver soldered it in place. Epoxy should work too.But all and all a great little scribe tool even when not considering the price.

Feels like a reasonably good tool so I'm hoping it'll last for a while. It will need a little bit of work on the brass contact piece to smooth out the rougher slide action.The protective pouch is not "leather" as mentioned in the product page, it is made out of cheap vinyl material. Even though I actually expected that before I received it, I still find it as a bitter note to see it misrepresented on the product page (makes you wonder if that's the only lie on there...).My biggest complaint, and I see it from other customers here, is about the measurement scale which is 1/128" instead of the commonly used decimal 1/1000". Who on earth uses that?I obviously understand that this increment or precision would be way beyond the intended scribing purpose of the tool, but it still makes up for consistency with standard calipers/verniers, ease of use and eliminate the confusing mental fractional conversion.In order to use this tool (in imperial) it will probably be faster to first index out the span with another set of calipers to get it set before scribing.