General Tools 444 Depth/Angle Gage...

Opened the package, the thumb screw would not clamp on the ruler. The reason was debris from the machining process. Cleaned the debris and remaining burrs. Then checked for square, the spindle is machined off center, unable to achieve a square setting. Very disappointing!!! This was a quality manufacturer in the past, just another source to eliminate going forward!

I have this model for in-shop use and ordered this one for service van field-use. No offense to India manufacturing, but this series of the '444' is a different, bulkier, softer-metal version of the previous American-manufactured series. I engraved my business name in it and the older models steel was so much harder that the engraver barely marked the steel surface, where the new model engraved into the steel easily.

Nothing to dislike. Did the job nicely

Great general purpose gage for setting router bit heights.

I purchased this to use as a quick way of setting length projection on a lathe at work. I could never get consistent lengths of my parts. I have been machining for 40 years and this is something that is a pretty common way to set a length in simple lathe operations. I couldn't figure what my problem was, come to find out that using a 1-2-3 by placing the flat of the base on the 2" side and running the scale down the 3" side there was about a .05 gap between the scale and the block. I put it on a mill and re-cut the base. Not for precision or semi-precision work. Quality control what is that???