Hallo to all, first post for me in this wonderful forum, a big hallo especially to BobL who has inspired me a lot with this thread here
BobL, you call this stuff 'ultra geeky' - don´t agree with that one, but with the rest of your statements.
In the meantime I have built my own raker gauges and I could do that because of the very helpful information in this thread.
Of course I aim for a constant 'cutting angle', so my selfmade gauges are progressive.
In order to produce a gauge as perfect as possible for my needs I invested some of my free time to create a software tool that can calculate two different types of raker gauges and predicts the corresponding cutting angles depending on the wear of the cutters. So you´ll know before creating your gauge how it will perform in the future.
No need to buy one, you can create one for your personal needs (soft wood, hard wood, mega soft wood...
), one type is VERY easy to create and at least for 3/8 chains I already know that my gauge is more linear than the buyable ones.
I have finished the software tool today, I still have to take some photos to explain and open a new thread to present the tool and explain its functionality.
Till soon, I´ll give a link to the thread here