TRACER ProScribe Tool

Hello, everyone. My name's James from Eastside Electrical Limited in North Essex. I'd like to post this review regarding the TRACER scribing tool that was kindly sent to me from the guys at Expert Trades and Tool Talk. I've got to say I'm really impressed with this scribing tool. I used it for cutting in some skirting board along a new staircase. I've got to say, it's nice, easy to use. Anything with the TRACER name on it, you generally know it's going to be quality. The pencils are superb and this little tool is no different. You can use it for contour scribing, parallel scribing, and also as a compass. I haven't tried the compass mode yet, but for parallel scribing, this was superb. And as I'm not a chippy, I found this to be really good, and to be honest, improve the quality of the work that I produced, even if it was in my own house.

The set comes with a nice little case, so chucking it back in the van and it's not going to get broken. And what I thought was really handy and something we're all going to use, a load of spare leads. We've coloured leads as well. I've got to say this is highly recommended. If you are like me and try your hand at bits and pieces that you're probably not qualified to do, this could really help you out in the woodworking section. Thank you ever so much. Highly recommended and well worth a try. Thank you.

Hi, guys. Joe, from Apex E C here, just giving a quick tool review on the TRACER ProScribe. First off, pretty decent case. That's pretty solid. It's nice for in the van. As typical with tracers, you get lead options, which, in this case, is the yellow and graphite. Let's get the tracer pencil itself, with sharpener built in. This is the ProScribe tool itself. We'll run through a few features of this tool and you can run it around either way, but it becomes a compass or quite easily marking up any edge. If we place it on the 10mm and we went down to, say, 75, which I think should just fit this paper safe. We had a centre mark as well. Place the scribe on there and rotate the pencil.
Now, this would be particularly handy for odd size products. At the minute, we are fitting some lights that are 200 mil wide, and, also, we have some spotlights, or emergency down lights, which are 45mm. This comes in handy for marking up exact measurements. We also have some speakers that are 210mm. This will be very handy for the marking of that, if you're going to cut out by hand.
As the name suggests, this is also a scribe. It can be used on other areas, such as a straight scribe. This could be handy for door frames. Again, marking parallel marks. Also, if you ended up with something a little more awkward, something that you need to get round, and you're unsure how, you can adjust the gap. This will slide under, otherwise, then you can simply follow it along. Now you can get parallel scribe, from it, and can get it perfect. You have to excuse that little gap there. As you can see, you can run it along a certain edge and get it exact. This is great for skirting, kitchen fitters, tilers, things like that, that have to get around those sort of problems.
Naturally, that's a product for the scribing tool. I say, many uses, folds up nicely, fits in its case very well, but, more importantly, you have the pencil. You have the marking pencil, you have the different leads. Got your built in sharper, you can keep sharpening, as much as you like, and always keep your point sharp.

Hi, this is Andy from Bennett's Safe Gas. Thank you Tool Talk and Expert Trades for sending me out this Tracer ProScribe. It is the ProScribe Deep Hole Construction Pencil with replacement leads, and it is all in one kit. You can see on the back, just some of the things. Take that out, you've got this nice strong case, there is a handle. Open it up, what's inside? You've got a few instructions, how to set up, QR code. If you go to that QR code, it does show you a short video of how to use it. And this is what's inside. You have the pencil, replacement leads, there's four of those, and two yellow, they help to write on dark surfaces, and then you have the scriber itself.

So you take this out, loosen the two ends. It does adjust up and down and then slides up. It's not the deepest. I could probably use one that's slightly longer, and one that maybe extends more and more, but that's not available. It does have a nice smooth rail at the bottom. This does help and it just flies across the surfaces. That's quite nice.

The pencil that comes with it, the Tracer Deep Hole Marking Pencil, you just take it out of the sleeve. This is what you keep in your pocket, clips on the side. You push that, lead comes out, and the sharpener's just there, so that's nice if you leave this in your pocket. Then it just drops in and pushes in, and that's it, locked in.

Then the other thing in the case is the replacement leads. You just swivel that and just take your replacements out. That's the yellow, so that's what writes on dark surfaces. It all sits in this case. It is a nice case, sturdy, strong. Zipped up, you can give it a bash, give it a twist. It is strong, it is going to hold and keep them safe. Yeah, that is a nice little tool. Thank you.

It's Gareth from Udell Electrical Services. ToolTalk Expert Trades have sent me the TRACER ProScribe Kit just to try out and see what I think of it. So I'm going to get the kit out, use it on a job, and then review it and see what I think.
So I've got this door frame to scribe into the wall. The wall's not perfectly straight, and there's quite a bit of a gap there. So I'm going to use the TRACER ProScribe to scribe it in. I've already set the tool up.
Just looking at the tool briefly, it's basically like a compass. So you have to set the actual thing up. And that's the gap that I want to be measured. There's a couple of different screws. So you can angle this differently, depending on which angle, if you've got a bigger sort of scribe to do, or if you're sort of doing a profile bit. All the instructions comes in the kit like I showed earlier, but I've already set that up. So I'm going to give it a go.
So I'm just going to hold my piece of timber where I need it, and then gently hold the ProScribe TRACER against the wall and send the line.
So that's it. It's traced the outline of the wall. I'm not sure if you can just about see that on the camera. There is this bit here, which is where the light switch is. So I wasn't able to hold the TRACER flat to the wall, but I'll just marry those two lines up and then use that to cut.
So as you see that I've, I've used the ProScribe to scribe a piece of architrave into the wall. I have to say, I found it quite fiddly to get set up. These grub screws, you have to really, really tighten down because I found that I tightened it to the thing and I went down the wall and started scribing. And then found that the pencil sort of moved like that, which then moved the angle. So I then had to reset it all and found it quite sort of fiddly and time consuming. And really, even if you really tighten these up quite tight, there's still the click and the movement there, which is not what you really want if you're scribing.
I did find that it's quite a bulky thing. I was literally scribing about five mil off of the actual architrave. And to actually set up the point, you're talking a minute sort of distance. Which as you can see, the pencil moves quite a bit. I don't know if you're as scribing a bigger area, if you were wanting to describe that sort of thing in, whether it would be accurate enough. I don't know.
The other issue that I did find with it is that because it's... So this is obviously where I was wanting it to scribe. That sort of space in between the pencil and that mark. Because it's a long flat surface along the plaster wall, because I kept it on the plaster wall, there was slight notches in the plaster, just where little bits of plaster had been left. So it kind of flicked the thing out rather than keeping it flat. But that could have just been down to user error
I don't know how well it will last just with it being plastic. Obviously, if you're using it day in, day out on site, although this part is the metal and is reinforced, you've got a lot of plastic parts. So I suppose only time would tell using it on site. The pencil part itself is a great bit of kit and I've got two or three of them that I do use regularly. But in terms of the actual scribing part, this part, I don't know how much use it would actually be to an everyday tradesman.
But that's just my review. It's well designed. They've obviously put a lot of money into it to design it. And I do like the fact that it comes with the cool kit. That's all I can say, really. Give it a go.

Hi, I'm Steve from HPE Services, and I've been sent this TRACER ProScribe by Tool Talk for the review, which I'm very grateful for.

So as you can see, comes in a nice box. Take the wrapping off, which has a nice set of instructions on the back. And comes in a nice, sturdy case, so it's not going to get smashed about in the back of the van.

Going to open this. I see another set of instructions. Tells you how to set the ProScribe up. Inside the bag, there's a container with 20 leads, which are different colours, so that will be handy for marking on different materials.

The Deep Hole Pencil. I've already got one of these which I've been using awhile. Very, very handy for marking out in bathrooms, for positioning of sinks, basins, marking into deep holes say for putting boilers up. Absolutely handy piece of kit.

Then this is the new bit, the ProScribe. I've never come across this one before. But apparently, according to the instructions, it's capable of making parallel lines, use as a compass, use it for parallel marking, contour modes.

So quite easy to use, actually. The pencil slots into there. Nice little grip. Tighten up, using these to position it. Nip it on, and you use it as a compass as such. Handy for marking the positioning of pipes through kitchen units. Very handy there. You can also adjust that as a parallel marker. On a bit of wood like that, and move a little bit farther forward like that. And as you can see, marks a parallel line on there. So a quite handy bit of kit, I would imagine.

If you drop that back, it also drops through onto there. And you can use it for marking the contours, which is quite handy. So that there, straightforward piece of kit. It takes a little bit of getting used to, you know, but once you get the hang of using it, makes for quite a useful bit of tool. Quite handy. Highly recommend it, I think, right

Thanks very much for watching. And I hope you enjoy buying one. Bye-bye.

Hi, guys. In Black Country Al, Fitzgerald Electrical & Plumbing Solutions. And I'm just doing a quick review for Tool Talk on the Tracer ProScribe. Basically, you've heard of Tracer. You've got the pencils, the pens. I've been using these now for a while. Pretty good. Tool Talk have sent me a kit, the ProScribe kit. It comes in a hard-ish case, a protective case, so it will protect your bits in there. You've got your pencil, your pens, and a scriber.

Basically, what it does, in a nutshell, is it marks out the contour or the shape of something that you want to cut. So if you're doing it against a wall, plasterboard, or boards, you can use it in parallel mode so it just marks the point you set it so the pencil is the same as the point and you mark along it, and it gives you the exact profile so you can saw and cut to the exact shape.

You can use a compass mode if you need to do a circle. And then the one I use, and the one I'm going to use it for the most is to scribe to do the contour. So basically, I'm going to show you on this tile. I've got it upturned, upside-down so it shows a bit more. You set your tile to the back. Measure that back from the wall, your profile, and then set the pencil just below the base there.

And from that point where you want your pencil, you can adjust that with these guys at the back here. We'll set ours just there at the front because that's the distance from that wall to the front of this architrave.

So I'm just going to run the pencil, I'll scroll it along and follow it along this tip of the architrave. And there you go. It's marked that out perfectly. You can chop that out with an angle grinder or a tile saw and that will fit in there nicely, right back against it. Tried it earlier with some pipe, so the exact same thing. Only other thing is you've got to mark out where your pipe starts and stops and then you can follow it around with this to get the contour of it.

Works perfectly and I will be using it quite often, I think. Especially for cutting around pipes and things like that and plasterboard. You know, plasterboard patches and it's got to be up to a frame or something like that again, around pipes. And perfect for marking out. Actually, it's quite well made and sturdy. And their pencils, like I said, are good. They're made to last. I've been using them for quite a while now. No complaints there.

Tracer ProScribe kit.