Trend EasyScribe Scribing Tool, E/SCRIBE

Great tool, bought because I had a lot of baseboard to install and the floor is not perfectly flat in places. Just set the height to the largest gap and scribe the baseboard then cut for a perfect fit. Super easy to use. Very practical size and functionality allows for the smallest of gaps. The lead is flat and records a thin line on the material to be cut that is easy to see.

I had been looking at every scribe tool on the market and somehow missed this one. When I finally saw a carpenter use it on the good old youtube I immediately bought it and I absolutely love it. Even some mates on site are like whoa thats awesome. Worth every penny. Well made and very functional for filler and crown scribes. Haven't used it on anything besides drywall/flat surfaces but I will keep one of these for life.

Good quality and adjustability. Fits in a tool belt just great. Non standard lead is sometimes difficult to extend as needed for additional marking. Over all very satisfied after a few years of use.

Worked well, adjustable bottom metal guide, good writing lead, the only disappointment is the lead is rectangular shape and is soft so it wears down quick makes a good line but you have to keep adjusting the lead as 5 inch of scribing and the lead was gone. The lead is difficult to adjust as my smallest finger i could not get behind the lead to advance it the front, i had to use knife or small screw driver to fit

It works well, but it is flimsy. Turning the adjustment knob makes the plastic body flex so much that it nearly pops apart. To fix this, I took the two halves apartment and super glued them back together. Now at least the tool doesn't flex like crazy. Also, before using the scribe after each adjustment, you have to press downward on the pencil arm and remove any slack- if you don't, it will likely move while in use. Definitely very annoying.

Tool works great and it's very easy to use. The design makes it very easy to maintain an accurate scribe line. My only complaint is that the leads stick abit making it a little harder to adjust length.

durable, proper size

I've gone through three of these devices before I realized that they're a cheaply made version of what was likely an excellent prototype. The first one I received had a significantly convex base, so the whole thing would rock up and down unless you exercised extra-special care in holding it onto the surface you scribe. To their credit, Trend's US dealer sent me another one at no charge eventually. But the second one's adjustment screw would bind after opening up only about 1/4", rendering it unusable. I still held out hope, so I tried buying once more, having yet to receive a product functional enough to try on a real job. My third Easy Scribe had a flat base and the adjustment screw worked smoothly. So I tried to use it and found, as many others have reported, that the slightest operational pressure on the arm that holds the proprietary pencil lead causes it to wiggle up and down with respect to the base. Surprised, I found that I could easily move it up and down more than 1/4"! Utterly useless. (Applying pressure directly to the pencil arm seems clearly to be the most logical and intuitive way to hold the tool.) Here's the kicker: I have decided to keep it and use it for now! Pro Tip: You must not even touch the pencil-holding arm when you grip the tool. If you do, the arm will readily deflect and give you a meaningless scribe line. But if you grip the tool carefully WITHOUT touching the arm, and also reference it ONLY off the end of the metal guide blade, rather than against the entire allegedly flat base, the tool can work as advertised and is very handy for smooth scribe lines, e.g. where a countertop meets a wall or baseboard meets a floor, etc. I wouldn't buy this product again due to the ridiculously poor quality. That said, the design is stellar, and I would gladly pay even more for a version properly manufactured to eliminate the need for such virtuoso care in use.

This was purchased for a Christmas present so I do not know how it will work. It looks good and was delivered very quickly. Happy to purchase from this buyer again.

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Bastante práctica para marcado, pero el cuerpo de plastico me ha decepcionado bastante.

Wow It's a fantastic scribe tool . I would recommend it to anyone! If I was to change anything I would make the bottom smoother so I dosen't mark walls ...... I put masking tape on it .

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!!