Wixey Mini Digital Height Gauge

This is a great little tool - very helpful for setting up cuts at depth on a table saw or router such as dados and grooves. This tool helped me get the table saw blade set perfect every time. I had used setup blocks before and they are nice, but there's no freedom - if you don't have the size block that corresponds to the cut you want to make, it won't work. You can set this to any height or depth you want, and that is very convenient. This also works very good with a router. I cut several rabbets and grooves using this tool and knew I had the depth set perfect. If you do any work that requires depth/height setup, I would highly recommend this tool!

I purchased this tool based on the excellent results I have had with a Wixey digital angle gauge. It is unfortunate that Wixey continues to use a CR 2032 button cell to power the gauge when their new Type 2 angle gauge uses a more available AAA battery. On the height gauge, access to the battery is from a slide-out tray in the top of the tool making the battery relatively easy to change. Unfortunately, unlike the Type 2 angle gauge, the readout on the height gauge is not back-lighted. The height gauge is very repeatable, even after having been turned off, then back on and making the same measurement. I would recommend this tool. The supplier shipped this tool quickly and packaging was very good. Their price was highly competitive.

Frame is hard plastic. Otherwise it seems to be a useful and accurate tool for height measurement in router table and table saw. I prefer a more sturdy frame, my expectations may be too high for the price.

no more rounding measurements! Also great when line of sight is skewed or obscured

I don't know if they improved the product between the time I bought mine and when people previously panned it, but for my needs, it's perfect. I use it to gauge the height of my dado blades and router bits. I find it *very* easy to use. Short button press for on/off, long to zero. I never have any issues zeroing it. Some complain that it's flimsy plastic. Yes, it's plastic, but this is one of those tools that really doesn't need serious structural integrity. I wouldn't personally gain anything by having it made out of metal.

Makes small things so much easier!

I like digital displays because they seem so sure and confident. I tend to futz around on my setups and I would like to do them faster. I purchased this in hopes of increasing both speed and accuracy of my setups. I was very pleased with the build quality and design. It repeated measurements well and was easy to use. The real test was whether it would increase the speed and accuracy of my setups. I did a test where I routed five 0.25" wide by 0.25" deep grooves in a board 0.5" apart. Each pass I would reset the router bit depth and of course need to measure and set the fence. I did this with both steel ruler and the Wixey. The first couple of setups with the Wixey took a while to get everything setup to within 0.002. But as I figured out how to hold the gauge and adjust the fence/bit depth things went much faster. I cannot say that it was faster using the Wixey than it was a steel ruler. As for accuracy I had mixed results. With the steel rule the average error at the fence was 0.0034 and for bit depth was 0.0038. Even at this level of accuracy I would need to make a couple of test cuts and machine adjustments to get the correct joint fit. With the Wixey I had an average error at the fence of 0.0138 and for bit depth 0.0020. The Wixey was better at setting the bit depth than it was at setting the fence. I don't see that the Wixey would allow me to avoid making test cuts and machine adjustments, nor do I feel it made the setups any faster. I am inclined to think that it would not make a significant difference in my woodworking.

I have used this quite a lot after owning it for just a short time. I mainly use it for setting the router depth on my large triton router and small trim router, but have also used it to set the height of a tablesaw blade. It is VERY accurate and I have got repeatable results after moving botht eh router and saw blades. I use the metric scales, but it also has fractional imperial which works well also. Magnetic base is helpful and keeps everything snug. I have two issues with the product which is why I gave it 4 stars, but they are only small issues. It is a little bit 'plastic-y' for a wixey product. Wixey do offer quality and it is made well, but I think it would be a little better if the arms were aluminium or something a bit stronger. I guess the plastic keeps the cost down. Doesn't hinder the use, but a large fall I think would shatter the arms. Second thing, I believe the measuring rod (In the middle) should be lightly spring loaded. If you have a non metal product (my trim router base) you need to hold the gauge to the base, whilst also holding the router and then trying to push the measuring rod down which is a bit clumsy. This is not an issue with a metal base, or using in a router table. Regardless I highly recommend this product, it takes all the guesswork away.

Me resulta muy útil para las elevaciones tanto del Reuters, como de la sierra.

Use it for setting up table saw and router no issues.. recommended

Glad I bought this. I use it for measuring height of features which the caliper has difficulty in measuring

I bought this to set the height of my table saw blade for cutting dados but it wasn’t useful for that purpose. The plastic construction was just too flimsy and my Dewalt job site table saw doesn’t have a magnetic top. Biggest problem though is that it is not wide enough to span the throat plate when you account for where you need to measure the blade height so it was basically impossible to get an accurate measurement. Gauge blocks and small square ended up working much better than this and my regular calipers do everything else I need. Might be useful for a router table though (have not tried that)

Un excelente producto muy practico