Digital Height Gauge

Accurate measurement is critical to cutting, especially with a table saw or router. Many cuts must be made to extremely specific depths, especially for joinery. Making these measurements with a ruler isn’t sufficient, to obtain the level of accuracy required. The Digital Depth & Height Gauge makes accurate, repeatable settings possible on both of these important woodworking shop tools. 

This gauge has a magnetic base, allowing for positive surface location on table saws with cast-iron tables or router tables with sheet steel inserts. Once the gauge is making firm contact with the table, the gauge can be zeroed, ensuring accurate measurement. Readings can be taken in either inches or millimeters, to an accuracy of one-thousandth or an inch (0.001”) or one -hundredth millimeters (0.01mm). Maximum height of measurement is over three inches. A hold button allows dimensions measured to be temporarily recorded for viewing. A large LCD readout, with 5/8” (16mm) tall numbers  makes it easy to read the results of measurements. 

Although the basic function of the gauge is to measure height above a flat surface, a probe, which is attached to the back of one of the legs, can be moved and attached to the main measurement scale, allowing it to measure depths, such as hole depths, as narrow as 1/8”, up to two inches deep. 

The Digital Depth & Height Gauge is made of injection-molded plastic, to resist expansion and contraction with temperature changes. It requires one CR2032 battery, which comes with it.