Good info. I have accumulated many dial calipers and a couple digital calipers over the years. I still tend to use the dial calipers because the battery is never dead! If want to switch to metrics and fractions, then you can't beat the digital. The best caliper is always the one that's closest to me!
oh yes! That’s the one downside with my caliper - no auto shutoff and I will never buy one again without it. It is allways running out of battery - so I allways measure with my mechanical one 😊
Yeah anytime a item has one or two things missing that i would need that is always a deal breaker for me. For me in the past i would "settle" due to cost or even availability but it always turned out bad!
@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 Mitutoyo make amazing products but even in machining where you are working with tighter tolerances than building guitars they can be 'overkill' as well. Calipers aren't 'precision' measuring instruments and cheaper ones are plenty accurate for working with wood and even in a lot of machining for applications you'd use a caliper for.
One thing i have learned especially with tools is get what makes you 100% satisfied and don't skimp on cost. Every time i tried to save a few bucks it came back to bite me right in the A$$!
@@HighlineGuitars Wish i could say the same but my experience has been the complete opposite. I can only go by what has actually happened in my everyday life on numerous occasions.
Good info. I have accumulated many dial calipers and a couple digital calipers over the years. I still tend to use the dial calipers because the battery is never dead! If want to switch to metrics and fractions, then you can't beat the digital. The best caliper is always the one that's closest to me!
In some environments backlight is really useful. Maybe not for guitar building, but for other situations.
oh yes! That’s the one downside with my caliper - no auto shutoff and I will never buy one again without it. It is allways running out of battery - so I allways measure with my mechanical one 😊
Yeah anytime a item has one or two things missing that i would need that is always a deal breaker for me.
For me in the past i would "settle" due to cost or even availability but it always turned out bad!
iGaging calipers are pretty good, similar pricing. The battery lasts forever, I've left mine on for over a week and it didn't die.
The best calipers are from Mitutoyo
Overkill.
@@HighlineGuitars Maybe not to him?
@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 Mitutoyo make amazing products but even in machining where you are working with tighter tolerances than building guitars they can be 'overkill' as well. Calipers aren't 'precision' measuring instruments and cheaper ones are plenty accurate for working with wood and even in a lot of machining for applications you'd use a caliper for.
One thing i have learned especially with tools is get what makes you 100% satisfied and don't skimp on cost.
Every time i tried to save a few bucks it came back to bite me right in the A$$!
I have purchased many cheap tools that turned out to be amazing. You just have to know how to read reviews and filter out the useful information.
@@HighlineGuitars Wish i could say the same but my experience has been the complete opposite.
I can only go by what has actually happened in my everyday life on numerous occasions.
How did you know that it won't flex like the old one?
Other reviews.