Trend EasyScribe Scribing Tool – Versatile and Accurate
Trend EasyScribe Scribing Tool – Versatile and Accurate Scribing Solution for Carpenters, Joiners, Tilers, Kitchen and Shop Fitters, E/SCRIBE
Flat base
Flat base ensures object surface remains in contact ensuring a consistent scribe
Versatility
Use for a multitude of applications including hanging doors, installing worktops, plinths & skirting, architraves, flooring, window boards, panelling, shop fitting and tiling
Articulated Arm
Articulated arm allows the required offset to be set precisely from 1mm to 40mm giving full flexibility
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| Description | Pack of 10 replacement leads for the Trend EasyScribe in high quality, durable, 2H Grade lead. | Handheld scribing tool for architrave, skirting, scribing doors, scribing worktops, setting hinge recess depth etc. | Spare graphite clamp assembly for the Easyscribe tool. |
| Weight: | 160 g |
| Size: | 1 Count (Pack of 1) |
| Dimensions: | 12.34 x 19.43 x 4.11 cm; 160 Grams |
| Model: | E/SCRIBE |
| Part: | E/SCRIBE |
| Colour: | Black |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Trend |
| Dimensions: | 12.34 x 19.43 x 4.11 cm; 160 Grams |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Size: | 1 Count (Pack of 1) |
Used to scribe end panels on kitchen project worked well
Throw away your other scribe tools because this is the one. Really easy to use and as a perfectionist I can say that the results are good. Only one word of warning, keep your spare leads in a safe place because I had to buy two of these after loosing the first lot. I couldn’t find replacement/spares anywhere!!
It’s pretty good apart from the fact that the lead slides back when you are using it, no matter how tightly you tighten the grab nut.
Arrived early was well packaged great value
Should of brought this years ago
Works. No real complaints. The flat edge is great for fairly straight-ish surfaces. Doesn’t work on curved surfaces (notice how the video stops at the skirting profile). The flat edge can’t follow the contour very well.
This is so much nicer than the home made versions I’ve made for myself. The extra flexibility of the tiny adjustments I can make with this scribe make me wonder why I didn’t get one years ago
This tool was just the job to make some wooden shelves and a mantlepiece fit just perfectly in our 1930’s terraced home where none of the walls seem to be square. After a little bit of reseach into scribe tools i found this one to be one of the ones that are commonly mentioned in reviews and honestly for a DIYer it does just the job, unfortunately cant comment on what it would be like to use as a tradesman but personally i think it would be fine, just would advise not being a brute with it thats all.
I bought this because I do a lot of templates for a local glazing firm, and I normally use plastic packers to hold my pencil away from the wall im scribing but with this new tool I don’t have to and it works really well
This is so easy to use, no need to search round for blocks of timber or packers to get the correct scribe depth installing skirting boards or fitting doors with this just saves heaps of time.
I was taught the old way on the veryvlast City and Guilds carpentry course. Any tool that makes to job better, quicker and more accurate, is in my opinion good enough. The fact that is light weight is a bonus, how you use and apply its use is in the skill of the user.
Very pleased with my purchase and highly recommend in skilled hands or those who can apply themselves to the job.
There are a few good Utube videos on its correct use. Well worth checking them.
Well recommend
A handy little tool that will make marking the edges around skirting boards a breeze, the most annoying thing about it is how the nib can be a bit of a fiddly faff but for all the time it saves doing marking the tradition way more than makes up for the fiddly nature of the desig
The old tried and tested ways work as well as they always have…..
This adds a level of showboating but hey isnt that what carpentry is all about sometimes! Enjoyable to use
It is a good tool, the advantage over other methods of scribing is the extendible arm which allows you to reference of deeper cavity surfaces. Annoyingly the graphite tips are quite prone to breaking and are a specialist consumable.
Great for flat scribes on Plinth and end panels. Mine isn’t particularly flat so I need to watch how I hold it. I have more than one scribe tool but this is a must for most fitters
its plastic and the blade needed a file to take a burr off it but all in all its decent, definitely going to do the job well but you can tell its mass produced, doesnt have that super high quality feel like you get with certain other brands tools if that matters to you
I am fitting a kitchen so decided to invest in the easyscribe as I couldn’t find my compass.
Having used it I can say I have found it and excellent bit of kit. This is the best price I could find 30 seems the average.
However in retrospect it does nothing a fairly stiff compass couldn’t do for a fraction of the price.
If I had my time over I’d just find a nice compass and a sharp pencil, which would also allow a wider range
A variety of different scribing tasks in the real world necessitates a variety of different scribing tools, to best handle each type.
For example, I include the following scribing tools (and others, including hand-made) in my scribing tool box:
Trend Easyscribe (E/Scribe)
Compass-type (by which I mean a cheaper generic version of the Veritas ‘Transfer / Log scribe’).
Vitrex profile guage (also known as a finger guage).
Trend ‘Perfect Butt’ (used mostly for rapidly scribing long shallow scribes, such as kitchen worktops to walls, but Trend’s ‘Easyscribe’ could handle the task, too; it’s just that it’s more fragile so needs a little more time & care to draw over long distances, especially if it’s rubbing against a wall with a rough or textured surface). The Trend ‘Perfect Butt’ is a nice addition to ones scribing tools, but it is not strictly essential.
The above scribing tools, and others, all have their specific pros and cons, so, as long as one understands that no single scribing tool is best suited to all scribing tasks, no matter how good, then the Trend Easyscribe is a worthwhile addition to one’s scribing arsenal, and can be warmly recommended.
The only significant downside to the Trend Easyscribe (which most tradesmen, including me, find obnoxious, but nonetheless tolerate, as it’s a sufficiently useful tool) is the APPALLINGLY-expensive 2H flat-profile replacement graphite/leads. These wear down very rapidly during use, because they are so thin, and they also snap very easily. This means that anyone who uses an Easyscribe 3 or more times a month is definitely going to have to buy these replacement leads from time to time, so had better be prepared for the cost of these.
Still, I do, grudgingly, like the Trend Easyscribe, and I would purchase it again. If you’re a kitchen fitter / bedroom fitter, then don’t even pause to think about it – just buy this tool, as it pays for itself over & over, in that line of work.