Let's see if I can stump some of you!

[bird]

[Bill Houghton]

Ha!  You put the name of it on your picture on Flickr or wherever you have it.  I thought it looked like a clapboard gauge, although the offset confused me at first.

[Plyerman]

Okay, what's a clapboard gauge?

[Lewill2]

Clapboards are wood siding on a house, the gauge is used to set the overlap the same on each row of boards.

[bird]

Ha!  You put the name of it on your picture on Flickr or wherever you have it.  I thought it looked like a clapboard gauge, although the offset confused me at first.

Damn it!!!!!  At least I got the picture on there,  I was getting sick of responses......  "Is it a blizzard?"  and such for my many posts that didn't include the picture!!!!
cheers,
bird

[Bill Houghton]

They're nifty tools, and definitely necessary, particularly for those following the (occasional) colonial practice of varying the exposure as the boards march up the wall.

In this area, most of the vintage houses use shiplapped siding of various kinds, and my "gauge" is an 8d nail in each end resting on the top edge of the board below the course I'm installing, so that the shiplap's not butted right up against the board below it, giving some expansion room.

Ya done good, Bird.

[turnnut]

I have one that I used on the garage last summer along with the edge scribe, they make the job go faster.  they are of a differant maker.

[bird]

Are these very common? I'm not selling it, so I think it's "kosher"  to ask how much anyone thinks it is worth.
I'm very impressed to those of you who still use this tool !
cheers,
bird.

[Branson]

They're not quite common, but this is the first one I've seen that is not a Stanley.  I'd think yours is uncommon.  I wonder if they made a scribe for it like the Stanley, or people were supposed to use a "preacher" -- basically a sort of self-made hinged devise to make the correct line to cut the ends of the clapboard precisely.  (Called a preacher because it kept you from swearing over a mis-cut board.)

[HeelSpur]

(Called a preacher because it kept you from swearing over a mis-cut board.)

ever cut the wrong side of the line on your last board?
cuss words fly and a preachers ears would melt.

[Billman49]

Great Planes Trading have sold a few various makes over the past few years - you may be able to get a guide as to value from their website... see: http://www.greatplanestrading.com/

[Branson]

ever cut the wrong side of the line on your last board?
cuss words fly and a preachers ears would melt.

Why, no.  That would be a mistake...

[rusty]

Ever drill a 1-1/2 inch hole all the way through a door and then realize that that particular hole was only supposed to go on the outside of the door?
 And nothing covers it on the inside because the knob doesn't go in that hole, it goes in the other hole....

[HeelSpur]

That hurts.
Ever take careful measurements when tiling a tub surround with 6x6 tiles and the 3rd tile from the ceiling is suppose to be a 3x6 (different color) but you forgot about that when you took measurements and when you finally remembered your two tiles from the ceiling.
Talk about pissed, a 1/2" strip of tile is not attractive.
Just glad the owners accepted it. (Dunce of the day winner)

[lauver]

bird,

Not only did you get a picture in your post, but it's a good picture to boot.

Keep up the good work.  I take it you've found a method of posting photo's that works for you.