Keyway Keys Guarantee Accuracy

When checking the depth of a dado or preparing your bandsaw fence for resawing, using a tape measure or metal scale can be clumsy at best. For less than $10 however, you can outfit yourself with an entire set of incredibly precise measurement tools that fit in the palm of your hand.

Keyway keys, more common to the machine shop than the workshop, are manufactured to extremely tight tolerances and are an easy way to verify the accuracy of a variety of common measurements.

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