Draper 34099 Double Ended Engineers Scriber, 200mm, Silver

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Scribers can be manufactured from a wide range of materials including aluminium, chrome vanadium steel and feature a tip often made from tungsten carbide or diamond. Engineer’s scribes have a sharp point that may be made of tool steel, hardened steel or occasionally diamond, enabling them to scribe lines on hard surfaces such as metal . Mostly used by professional tradespeople or DIY enthusiasts, scribers can be used in a wide range of industries, from woodwork and carpentry, to machining and engineering, even domestic DIY.

Scriber tools are also a much safer and accurate choice for marking, unlike a knife that can potentially damage the material or cause injury.Scribers are available in many forms, however, the two most common are the engineer's scribe and the carpenter's scribe. If you need to mark precisely for example screw holes etc in machinery, then an engineer's scriber would be well suited.

Ink can also be added to enhance the marking line and they are much safer to use than bulkier tools like knives.They are useful in a wide range of applications and their pen like form means they are easily portable in belts, pockets and toolboxes. Engineer scribers often feature a much more solid design with a sharper point ideal for use with materials such as metal and steel, whereas a carpenter scriber is designed for marking softer materials such as wood prior to using carving tools. A scriber or engineers scribe tool is a type of hand tool used to mark or scriber various materials such as wood, steel, metal and plastic prior to being machined.